Kaplan

Senior Software Engineer I

Primary Responsibilities

• Designs, codes, debugs, optimizes, and releases both frontend and backend components as well as internal tools.
• Performs code reviews of pull requests.
• Assists junior engineers with development and SDLC processes.
• Works closely with QA analysts for feature and regression testing.
• Writes and maintains unit, integration, and acceptance tests.
• Helps select and incorporate new tools and technologies.
• Drives continuous improvement of best practices within the development team.
• Identifies and recommends where increased automation, performance enhancements, application enhancements, and quality enhancements may be incorporated.
• Remains flexible and responsive to changing priorities and multiple, concurrent responsibilities.
• Keeps current with emerging technologies and technological developments within the industry.

Education & Experience

·      Level of Formal Education:

o  Bachelors or 5 years of professional experience

·      Area of Study:

o  Computer Science or related field

·      Years of Experience:

o  5+ years

·      Type of Experience:

o  Software Engineering

·      Special Certifications or Technical Skills:

o  n/a

·      Information Systems:

o  C#, .NET Framework, JavaScript, SQL Server

·      Technical Competencies:

o  n/a

·      Skills and Ability:

o  C# (or similar language)

o  JavaScript / Node.js

o  SQL Server (or similar relational database management system)

o  Object-oriented design

o  Unit, integration, & acceptance testing

o  Git (or similar version control system)

·      Personal Attributes:

o  Accountable, analytical, methodical, strategic, situational awareness

·      Other/Preferred:

o  Full Stack Development experience

o  Experience or interest in learning:

§ REST web services / microservice architecture

§ Continuous integration & continuous delivery

§ Behavior-driven development

§ GraphQL

§ Docker containers

§ Cloud technologies (e.g. serverless architecture / AWS Lambda)

Lead QA Engineer - Automation:

We are looking for a candidate who will be an agent of change and who will drive and execute based on our Quality and Reliability Transformation Roadmap. He/She will be responsible for testing Education Service domains across platforms, automation of functional/regression and RFB (sanity) service test suites, Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery pipeline and Shift Left methodologies. We will also expect the candidate to take ownership of a functional domain and play a hands-on role in the execution of testing for projects in this area.

The candidate should have extensive experience in testing, testing automation, testing leadership and software development. The candidate should be proficient in-service automation testing tools like Eclipse, IDNE, Jenkins, GIT hub and Chatbot testing like Botium. The candidate should have at least 7+ years of service testing or software development experience.

The candidate should be flexible, highly adaptable and an excellent team player. The candidate is expected to work with Agile teams that consist of test analysts, developers, automation engineers and other stake holders. The candidate should expect to work in a global virtual team, sometimes across multiple time zones. The candidate may be assigned to more than one role or project at a time.  

Lead QA Engineer - Automation Responsibilities:

• Create automation plan and delivery roadmaps
• Develop test automation solutions for applications across different platforms
• Adhere to existing standards; provide suggestion to improve and set new standards
• Participate in technical discussions with engineering teams to understand application architecture and API model
• Collaborate with QA Engineers and Software Developers to identify test automation scope and priorities
• Configure, maintain, and operate service test automation tools and frameworks
• Capture requirements and test cases, understand application features, analyse requirements and develop test automation solution with a view of the end-to-end application flow
• Design and create robust automated test scripts to address business and technical use cases
• Integrate test automation scripts with Continuous Integration and Delivery pipeline
• Communicate progress to the senior leadership on a regular basis
• Should have Education Service domain and application knowledge

Lead QA Engineer - Automation Requirements: 

A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

• 7-11 years’ experience working as a Service Test Automation Engineer
• Experience in collaborating effectively across a variety of IT and business groups, across regions, roles, and able to interact effectively with all levels
• Proven record of execution of QA strategy and unification of QA processes across organization
• Must have hands-on experience with Selenium automation using Java
• Must have experience in Chatbot testing like Botium.
• Working knowledge of any Relational Database and DB Queries.
• Working knowledge of tool and technologies like Jenkins, GIT, JIRA and ALM
• Well versed with approaches like BDD, Keyword Driven, Data Driven and hybrid Driven test automation.
• Good to have understanding of model-based testing.
• Understanding of Agile/Waterfall development process and is comfortable diving into the technical architecture of complex and highly scalable solutions
• Excellent leadership, communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills. Experience in presenting to diverse audiences and conducting education and training.
• Have deep experience in defining and developing the service test automation framework.
• Development background is a major plus.
• knowledge of Rest, SOAP, MQ and microservices. (Nice to Have)

Senior Data Scientist-Job Description

The Senior Data Scientist role is a creative problem solver who utilizes statistical/mathematical principles and modelling skills to uncover new insights that will significantly and meaningfully impact business decisions and actions.  She/he applies their data science expertise in identifying, defining, and executing state-of-art techniques for academic opportunities and business objectives in collaboration with other Analytics team members. The Senior Data Scientist will execute analyses & outputs spanning test design and measurement, predictive analytics, multivariate analysis, data/text mining, pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.

Key Responsibilities:

• Perform the full range of data science activities including test design and measurement, predictive/advanced analytics, and data mining, and analytic dashboards.
• Extract, manipulate, analyse & interpret data from various corporate data sources developing advanced analytic solutions, deriving key observations, findings, insights, and formulating actionable recommendations.
• Generate clearly understood and intuitive data science / advanced analytics outputs.
• Provide thought leadership and recommendations on business process improvement, analytic solutions to complex problems.
• Participate in best practice sharing and communication platform for advancement of the data science discipline.
• Coach and collaborate with other data scientists and data analysts.
• Present impact, insights, outcomes & recommendations to key business partners and stakeholders.
• Comply with established Service Level Agreements to ensure timely, high quality deliverables with value-add recommendations, clearly articulated key findings and observations.

Qualification:

• Bachelor's Degree (B.A./B.S.) or Master’s Degree (M.A./M.S.) in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Machine Learning, Physics, or similar degree
• 5+ years of experience in data science in a digitally advanced industry focusing on strategic initiatives, marketing and/or operations.
• Advanced knowledge of best-in-class analytic software tools and languages: Python, SQL, R, SAS, Tableau, Excel, PowerPoint.
• Expertise in statistical methods, statistical analysis, data visualization, and data mining techniques.
• Experience in Test design, Design of Experiments, A/B Testing, Measurement Science Strong influencing skills to drive a robust testing agenda and data driven decision making for process improvements
• Strong Critical thinking skills to track down complex data and engineering issues, evaluate different algorithmic approaches, and analyse data to solve problems.
• Experience in partnering with IT, marketing operations & business operations to deploy predictive analytic solutions.
• Ability to translate/communicate complex analytical/statistical/mathematical concepts with non-technical audience.
• Strong written and verbal communications skills, as well as presentation skills.

QA Engineer - Automation:

We are looking for a candidate who will be an agent of change and who will drive and execute based on our Quality and Reliability Transformation Roadmap. He/She will be responsible for testing Education Service domains across platforms, automation of functional/regression and RFB (sanity) service test suites, Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery pipeline and Shift Left methodologies. We will also expect the candidate to take ownership of a functional domain and play a hands-on role in the execution of testing for projects in this area.

The candidate should have extensive experience in testing, testing automation, testing leadership and software development. The candidate should be proficient in-service automation testing tools like Eclipse, IDNE, Jenkins, GIT hub. The candidate should have at least 4-8 years of service testing or software development experience.

The candidate should be flexible, highly adaptable and an excellent team player. The candidate is expected to work with Agile teams that consist of test analysts, developers, automation engineers and other stake holders. The candidate should expect to work in a global virtual team, sometimes across multiple time zones. The candidate may be assigned to more than one role or project at a time.  

QA Engineer - Automation Responsibilities:

• Create automation plan and delivery roadmaps
• Develop test automation solutions for applications across different platforms
• Adhere to existing standards; provide suggestion to improve and set new standards
• Participate in technical discussions with engineering teams to understand application architecture and API model
• Collaborate with QA Engineers and Software Developers to identify test automation scope and priorities
• Configure, maintain, and operate service test automation tools and frameworks
• Capture requirements and test cases, understand application features, analyse requirements and develop test automation solution with a view of the end to end application flow
• Design and create robust automated test scripts to address business and technical use cases
• Integrate test automation scripts with Continuous Integration and Delivery pipeline
• Communicate progress to the senior leadership on a regular basis
• Should have Education Service domain and application knowledge

QA Engineer - Automation Requirements: 

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
• 4-8 years’ experience working as a Service Test Automation Engineer
• Experience in collaborating effectively across a variety of IT and business groups, across regions, roles, and able to interact effectively with all levels
• Proven record of execution of QA strategy and unification of QA processes across organization
• Must have hands-on experience with Selenium automation using Java
• Working knowledge of any Relational Database and DB Queries.
• Working knowledge of tool and technologies like Jenkins, GIT, JIRA and ALM
• Well versed with approaches like BDD, Keyword Driven, Data Driven and hybrid Driven test automation.
• Good to have understanding of model-based testing.
• Understanding of Agile/Waterfall development process and is comfortable diving into the technical architecture of complex and highly scalable solutions
• Excellent leadership, communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills. Experience in presenting to diverse audiences and conducting education and training.
• Have deep experience in defining and developing the service test automation framework.
• Development background is a major plus.
• knowledge of Rest, SOAP, MQ and microservices. (Nice to Have)

Profile Summary: The Software Engineer - Full Stack is responsible for software development as a member of a project team. He/she works closely with subject matter experts, business analysts, quality analysts, and others to design, develop, and test software solutions to business problems.

Responsibilities:

• Solve problems of considerable scope and complexity.
• Designing, coding (at least 80%), debugging and optimizing both frontend and backend components as well as internal tools, such as configuration management and development/test environments.
• Help select and incorporate new tools and methods.
• Work closely with project, application, and enterprise architects to develop solutions.
• Drive the continuous evolution of best practices within the development team.
• Identify and recommend where increased automation, performance enhancements, application enhancements and quality enhancements may be incorporated.
• Balance customer and business needs to design, develop, test, and deliver against timelines.
• Contribute to architecture and code design, estimates, code reviews, and documentation to ensure top quality software.
• Keeps current with emerging technologies and technological developments within the industry.
• Monitors and evaluates competitive applications and products.
• Reviews current practices relevant to the solution of assigned projects.
• Remains flexible and responsive to changing priorities and multiple, concurrent responsibilities.
• Be a talent multiplier that motivates the team around them to excel and perform well.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree - Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or related field.
• 3-5 years of software development experience.
• Experience in lieu of education: Two years of experience for every year of formal education required. Application development experience using. NET, C#, . NET Core, SQL Server, CSS, and other web development technologies.

Job Description:

QA automation is a key component of Kaplan's ability to quickly launch high-quality, innovative education products to our students. As an integral member of a cross-functional Agile team, you will use industry-standard tools and frameworks to conduct functional and performance testing on web applications, mobile applications, and APIs.

In this role you will:

• Develop automated mobile application test scripts that are robust, performant, and maintainable using Appium, Espresso, XCUITest or other tools.
• Ensure that applications and APIs developed by the team are reliable and meet user’s needs
• Work closely with developers, designers, and devops to meet team commitments
• Manage the timeline and status of the software release process
• Work with the Tech Lead to improve software development and quality assurance processes
• Provide the product owner with information they need to prioritize features (e.g., effort estimates, alternatives, technical risk)
• Work closely with developers to learn implementation details about product feature and perform releases
• Provide production support of software products by investigating and recreating reported defects
• Work closely with stakeholders to implement with different types of Performance Testing like : Load Testing, Stress Testing, Volume Testing, Capacity Testing, Reliability Testing

You must have:

• Minimum 5 or more years of software testing and quality assurance
• BS/MS in a relevant field (Computer Science, Engineering) or equivalent experience
• A Good understanding of the mobile devices, their peripheral devices, networks etc.
• A Good understanding of the Android and iOS designs and its components.
• Hands on experience with emulators, simulators.
• Hands on experience by testing mobile app performances with automation application testing tools.
• Well versed with different types of Performance Testing like : Load Testing, Stress Testing, Volume Testing, Capacity Testing, Reliability Testing. etc
• Experience in developing end to end system level automation and tools design
• & development
• Experience with mobile automated testing frameworks, such as Appium, Espresso, or XCUITest.
• Strong experience working with Selenium WebDriver either with TestNG, Junit or Nunit.
• Hands on Experience in building automation framework for Android and IOS.
• Good experience & knowledge of any one Language Java or Python/C#.
• Experience with API testing and performance testing with tools such as JMeter, Rest Assured or Soasta
• Familiarity with standard web and mobile architectures, both hardware and software
• Drive adoptions of best practices in code, testing and maintainability.
• Proficient with Devops and concept for example : Jenkins, Git and Docker
• Familiarity with Amazon Web Services is a plus.
• Experience with the entire software lifecycle - requirements capture, analysis, design, implementation, quality assurance, deployment, and maintenance
• Perform Mobile test task estimation, test execution, Regression testing, Functional System testing
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Good analytical and problem solving skills
• Be motivated to meet commitments and deliver the highest value possible