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 Master 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

Note

Note:
To comply with US immigration and other legal requirements it is necessary to specify the minimum number of years experience required for any role based within the USA. For roles outside of the USA to ensure compliance with applicable legislation the JDs should focus on the substantive level of experience required for the role and a minimum number of years should NOT be used.

This Job Description is intended to provide a high level guide to the role. However it is not intended to amend or otherwise restrict/expand the duties required from each individual employee as set out in their respective employment contract and/or as otherwise agreed between an employee and their manager.

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