R&D Senior Member of Technical Staff, System Test

About the Job

Industrial Platform System Test is looking for a technically strong, and a passionate hands-on person, with strong development, automation, and performance test exposure of microservices and Cloud apps, for our Industrial Cloud platform aka. CONNECT Industrial Intelligence as service; to design business critical industrial digital twin use cases, design and build apps, validate and maintain a completely automated platform having platform services for Aveva apps and partner apps that conforms the standards needed for automated deployment on environments.

In this role you will:

• Collaborate and work with platform, data and apps development teams, and portfolio to design and perform tests on platform; design and automates integration tests, end to end with critical digital twin business use cases, performance tests and perform regression testing when needed.
• Enhances platforms automation framework, develop and maintain shared automation libraries, tools and tests are easily extendable by peers and platform integration teams.
• Enhances performance test frameworks developed in K6, test scenarios, testing methods for throughput, scaling and performance tests, and validation of data quality.
• Conducts performance testing to ensure that the platform can handle the expected load and perform optimally under stress.
• Develop, and integrate microservices apps for validating industrial platform features.
• Recommends technical strategies to contribute to the overall effectiveness and quality of testing in cloud, and to meet business needs.
• Tracks and communicates task progress, status, and key performance metrics. Provide performance test reports to stake holders in business unit.
• Communicate effectively across multiple teams, stake holders and customers.
• Keep abreast of developments in automation and performance testing in cloud, practices, and technology. Independently learn, gain expertise, and implement for new capabilities.
• Continually develop and improve validation processes, adding value through optimization, automation, and effective use of Azure DevOps

Qualifications:

• Bachelor/masters in computer science or a related technical field with 7+ years of relevant industry experience
• Have worked on SaaS, IaaS, or PaaS multi-tenant software systems deployed on the cloud.
• Experienced in performance and load testing of microservices using K6.
• Experienced in test automation using MS Test, XUnit, PactFlow, Spec Flow, Playwright, and Postman.
• Experienced in developing performance test and automation test frameworks.
• Strong development experience in one or more languages: Primarily C#, .NET, Typescript/ JavaScript, and Python.
• Have exposure and explored development on core infrastructure concepts including Microservices, azure functions, apps, kubernetes, and containers.
• Experienced with development quality practices, to include debugging and refactoring.
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) tools such as Git, Maven, Gradle, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Azure DevOps
• Good exposure in building pipelines using YAML.
• Strong hands-on ability on technologies like Redis, Kafka and NoSQL databases
• Excellent analytical skills, open, proactive, results oriented, self-organized and self-motivated.
• Proven experience of leading and coaching others
• Knowledge of data ware housing concept, knowledge graph, graph QL etc. is a plus.
• Working knowledge on industry automation best practices, its use cases and real time data
• Performed integration with OSiSoft PI systems and AVEVA Datahub is a plus
• Experience with DevOps and infrastructure management tools will be a plus.