Quality Assurance Engineer

Job Description Summary

Responsible for test creation, testing a large module or a large component and designing a feature, set of features, or whole feature area independently, contributing to the immediate team and to other teams across business; Leading software quality engineering discussions and mentoring of other junior quality engineers.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

In this role, you will:
Break down problems and estimate time required for quality related tasks
Demonstrate increasing expertise in application domain and functional areas
Apply various testing types and methodologies effectively during SDLC
Take ownership of small tasks and deliver without supervision while using their discretion to seek help when necessary
Apply principles of SDLC and methodologies like Lean/Agile/XP, CI, Software and Product Security, Scalability, Documentation Practices, refactoring and Testing Techniques
Work independently and delivers testing and use case creation which meets standards and delivers desired functionality using the technology selected for the project
Write effective tests according to best practices so that crucial functional requirements are verified and tests remain valid when code is refactored
Begin to collaborate with development team in bugs fixing and build plans
Collaborate with Quality Leaders in creating test plans
Implement and configures testing tools and at times help junior staff
Implement system-level integration testing
Be skilled in core data structures and algorithms
Define quality metrics, best practices and coding patterns, and provides deep expertise on the coding

Education Qualification

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or related discipline with strong academic credentials.
• A minimum of 3-5 years of extensive experience in test automation.
• Must have knowledge with container orchestration technologies like Kubernetes.
• Must have experience and ability to develop automation scripts for the purposes of testing solution code (e.g., white-box testing).
• Must be able to design and develop automation framework.
• Must be able to develop automation for both backend and UI using tools (e.g. Katalon studio or Selinium etc).
• Must have knowledge in developing and executing maintainable automation tests for acceptance, functional, and regression test cases.
• Must have experience testing web services (SOAP/REST; Throughput, Performance under Load, etc.)
• Must have experience with issue-tracking and agile project management systems such as Jira, Green Hopper, Confluence, Rally, etc.
• Must have experience working in Linux/Unix and Windows environments.
• Must have experience working with virtual machines (VMs) as part of a test/integration infrastructure
• Must have knowledge in test reporting tools like qTest.
• Good to have knowledge in scripting languages such as Bash, Python.
• Good to have knowledge on Infrastructure automation tools such as Ansible.
• Good to have knowledge in developing Continuous Integration/ Delivery pipelines.
• Good have knowledge of cloud service providers, like AWS.

Business acumen:
Has the ability to take ownership of small tasks and deliver without supervision while using their discretion to seek help when necessary
Voices opinions and presents clear rationale. Uses data or factual evidence to influence
Recognizes collaborative behaviour and participates in collaborative activities
Able to understand how team and personal goals/objectives contribute to the organization vision

Personal Attributes:
Demonstrates the ability to help team members
Seeks to understand problems thoroughly before implementing solutions. Asks questions to clarify requirements when ambiguities are present
Identifies opportunities for innovation and offers new ideas. Takes the initiative to experiment with new software frameworks
Adapts to new environments and changing requirements. Pivots quickly as needed. When coached, responds to need & seeks info from other sources