Alternative Path

Alternative Path is looking for a Senior QA, to assist one of its clients, which is a SAAS platform helping alternative investment firms to streamline their document collection and data extraction process using Machine Learning. 

This role is responsible for leading quality review of various applications and includes creating test plans and strategy, test cases in partnership with developers, business analysts and project managers which are used to shape and verify code and check conformance to system requirements. The role relies upon test automation and manual testing tools.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyse and interpret business requirements and end-user feedback to provide meaningful and timely inputs and apply analysis to the testing process.
• Create comprehensive Testing Strategies/ Plans, describing the testing scope, strategy, techniques, approach, and test data that you will use to test new features.
• Report defects for issues found under testing and manage the defect through its life cycle.
• Create Test cases, relevant test execution reports and bug reports and use them to convey current state of feature under test
• Collaboratively work with the design and development team members to resolve identified issues/bugs in timely manner.
• Apply the functionality knowledge and understanding to determine the impacted testing areas and come up with the relevant regression testing scope, plan, and timelines.
• Do regression, exploratory testing along with planned and documented testing for new features.
• Do automation planning towards automation testing of features and create automation scripts at UI and API levels using appropriate tools.
• Take a stand and share views on the quality of feature under test, back it up with necessary data and metrics, use it to provide (or not provide) release sign off.
• Do defect analysis of bugs found in Production environment and come up with systemized solutions to avoid these occurrences in the future.
• Collaboratively work across all areas of IT development, actively liaising with developers and business stakeholders to improve overall quality and performance.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of the QA test strategy and process.
• Be aware of and understand the impact to QA of any new technologies being introduced.

Desired Skills and Experience

Technical

• Candidate must be a Graduate/Postgraduate with proven experience in QA Engineering field.
• Candidate has 3 to 5 years of experience in Quality Engineering field.
• Candidate has strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes.
• Hands on experience of using tooling for Test Case Management, Defect M.
• Strong Analytical, logical reasoning, problem-solving skills with Good Aptitude and communication.
• Flexible to work in designated shift hours to facilitate global communication.
• Be willing to help your teammates, share your knowledge with them, and learn from them.
• Be open to receiving constructive feedback and turning it into process improvements.

Personal

• Able to question the status quo
• Out-of-the-box thinking
• Smart & agile
• Fast learner
• Able to work autonomously
• Eager to learn new technologies

Alternative Path is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer, to assist one of its clients, which is a credit intelligence firm to manage and maintain databases, which are central to their operations.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for the day-to-day management of all infrastructure, ensuring high availability and optimal application performance. You will own the automation of virtual infrastructure deployment and configuration, and effectively communicate complex technical concepts to stakeholders at all levels. Your role includes build, release, and configuration management, designing disaster recovery strategies, and ensuring critical system security.

Key Responsibilities:

• Overall responsibility for the day-to-day management of all infrastructure with a focus on high availability and application performance
• Ownership of automating virtual infrastructure deployment and configuration
• Brief senior leadership and end-users about the benefits of the solution and the technology choices made.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to stakeholders of varying expertise levels
• Build, release, and configuration management
• Design DR strategies and assist with BCP planning
• System troubleshooting and problem-solving across platform and application domains.
• Ensuring critical system security using best-in-class cloud security solutions.
• Work independently to complete tasks, report status, identify blockers, and proactively resolve issues.
• Develop reporting toolsets and reports providing meaningful data to relevant interested parties, management & senior DevOps engineers
• On-call – must be available for on-call work.

Desired Skills:

• 5+ years of experience in a senior role administering Linux AWS cloud infrastructure
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with databases including MySQL, Mongo & Elasticsearch
• Expert knowledge of AWS cloud management concepts and services (EC2, S3, RDS, A/ELB, EBS, VPC, Route53, Lambda)
• Ability to troubleshoot, diagnose, resolve & document RCA of highly complex environments
• Expert level understanding of Linux (Ubuntu)
• Thorough knowledge of DB configuration, concepts, maintenance, and troubleshooting
• Security design theory knowledge as well as experience in designing, implementing, monitoring
• IaaS orchestration & configuration management tools (Terraform, Ansible, Chef or SaltStack)
• Experience automating the deployment of multiple frameworks to (PHP, Laravel, NodeJS, Java, Python)
• Expert understanding of containerization concepts, orchestration CI/CD workflows (Kubernetes, Jenkins)
• Ability to implement a full CI/CD pipeline using automation (Jenkins)
• Experience with messaging queues (RabbitMQ)
• Experience with content delivery networks 9CDN)
• Technical writing and documentation of architectural designs, application stacks, networks & security, processes