QA Engineer

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)