Sr 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:

• Own large sized tasks or small projects and delivers QE artifacts. Manages deliverables and mentors junior team members.
• Contribute in driving initiatives such as defining coding standards and processes to ensure quality code is produced.
• Reuse existing code appropriately wherever possible; drives same behaviours across team while coaching other developers to improve their code quality.
• Develop and enhance the test infrastructure and continuous integration framework used across teams at the COE.
• Determine testing best practices and principals and promotes them across the organization.
• Work with fellow team members to diagnose bugs and formulate solutions.
• Provide functional and technical expertise in bug fixes.
• Provide subject matter expertise in the quality engineering, manages test plans and testing methodology for software projects.
• Use test automation techniques (data driven, pairwise, mocking, test hooks) that fit the problem space. Understands designing and coding for testability to produce quality code with the lowest cost.

• Bachelors or Master's degree in Computer Science or related discipline with strong academic credentials.
• A minimum of 5-7 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 Selenium 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.

• Strong problem-solving abilities and capable of articulating specific technical topics or assignments
• Experience in building scalable and highly available distributed systems
• Expert in breaking down problems and estimate time for development tasks
• Evangelizes how our technology solves customer problems from a technology and business perspective

• Demonstrates clarity of thinking to work through limited information and vague problem definitions
• Influences through others; builds direct and "behind the scenes" support for ideas
• Proactively identifies and removes project obstacles or barriers on behalf of the team
• Shares knowledge, power, and credit, establishing trust, credibility, and goodwill

• Able to work under minimal supervision
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to interface with senior leadership with confidence and clarity
• Able to work well with global teams, including time-zone flexibility
• Skilled in providing oversight and mentoring team members. Shows ability to effectively delegate work