Middle QA automation

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) at Our client

About Our client

Our client is an international outsourcing company providing professional test automation as a service for clients from the US, Singapore and Western Europe.

Our philosophy is “quality over quantity” and “people over money” in everything.

We’re a mature team of 30 people with a great mix of previous professional experience. Our backgrounds are diverse, both culturally and professionally. One thing we all have in common, though, is that we are passionate about making Our client successful IT company.

Responsibilities

• Create testing artifacts such as test plans, test cases, test reports, and tests.
• Review product requirement documents in close collaboration with product managers and tech leads to create and document test plans and test cases for features.
• Review test plan and test case documents as needed with key stakeholders.
• Work hand-in-hand with the developers and product manager as a manual tester for new features under development.
• As a platform quality engineer, understand the technical stacks and technology powering the applications, for instance, Kafka, AWS services.
• Contribute to performance testing.
• Perform manual and exploratory testing as a prerequisite for test automation, for time-sensitive delivery scenarios and for unscheduled hotfix releases.
• Develop automated tests for regression and feature testing.
• Perform pre-release automated regression testing for scheduled feature releases.
• Become a subject matter expert by understanding the business use cases and capabilities related to the data platform code base and test frameworks.
• Uplevel overall QA team maturity by contributing to cross-functional efforts such as for nightly tests, monitoring test failures, and improving the frameworks that run the tests.
• Work with Jenkins to schedule tests, analyze test results and share metrics and feedback with key stakeholders.

Skills

• Has programming, debugging, and profiling skills in one or more of Java / Ruby / JavaScript / Scala.
• Strong understanding of API fundamentals.
• Experience working in agile product teams (Scrum and Kanban).
• Interest in software system internals, e.g. “how things work”.
• Experience in using industry standard application performance logging and monitoring tools, e.g. DataDog, SumoLogic, NewRelic.
• Has a strong orientation towards delivering results incrementally.
• Experience improving quality through a combination of tests, dependency testing, and monitoring.
• Domain expertise with quality engineering for SaaS Platform teams is a plus.
• Has strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Self-starter who can collaborate effectively with the members of the product development team (product managers, architects, developers, etc.) and with cross-functional QA team members.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience as a SDET or a test automation engineer, preferably in SaaS companies.
• Education: BS in Computer Science or equivalent.