Associate Software Quality Test Engineer

Overview

As a member of an innovative team of IT professionals, you will work closely with talented engineers and product owners across the globe to build and deploy enterprise applications that are used to run our business internally at Pega. The IT QA team plays an important role in helping Pega to grow by partnering with the business to roll out high quality, scalable, enterprise applications for internal teams (Finance, Legal, Sales, Marketing, Consulting, HR, Order Management, IT), external stakeholders, clients and partners. We strive for excellence and embrace agile methodologies to achieve it.

Picture Yourself At Pega

Pega is changing the way the world builds software. In this role - The Senior Software Quality Test Engineer will be a member of the IT QA teams. You will provide testing services for a Center of Excellence SCRUM team in one of Pegasystems’ internal departments. And you will be responsible for creating test plans, test cases, regression test suites, creating automated tests and take ownership for the overall quality of the products. You will also work collaboratively with the QA lead, technical lead, software engineers, product owners and business users to develop quality application.

What You'll Do At Pega

• • Work collaboratively with team members to design, develop, test and document high quality test specifications.
  • Demonstrates best practices in functional and automated testing.
  • Provide technical assistance to advance the capabilities of products and resolve issues.
  • Leverage your advanced Pega knowledge to identify, investigate and report product defects.
  • Ability to collaborate with the Product Owner to understand use cases and effectively design a solution to satisfy use cases .
  • Ability to work across teams and communicate priorities effectively.
  • Ability to provide constructive feedback during code reviews, retrospectives, design reviews, etc.
  • Ability to serve as a representative of the team working with stakeholders.
  • Guide team members on test planning, test execution, and test automation technologies
  • Strong desire for product quality and understanding of test strategy and methodology; ability to communicate test strategy effectively across teams.
  • Should be able to mentor new team members or interns as part of on boarding.
    

• • You are passionate about test automation and code quality and eager to develop your skills within an enterprise environment while working with an industry leading product.
  • You have practical knowledge of software testing best practices, testing terminologies, and writing test automations with at least one technology.
  • You think outside the box and use your experience for more effective collaboration.
  • You are competent in test planning along with identifying, documenting, and executing test cases.
  • You are also competent with debugging the test failures.
  • You have basic skills required to technically lead QA testing of projects at a team level.
  • You share your updates, ideas and plans competently through verbal and written communications. Attention to detail is your proficiency.
    

• • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical discipline / BE/B. Tech or Equivalent
  • 0-2 years of experience developing test plans from use cases
  • Practical knowledge of software testing best practices
  • Software test experience with Java, Selenium, TestNG, or other technologies
  • Exposure to Windows and Linux operating systems
  • Experience in testing mobile applications, web applications, UI, applets, client/server, portals, or warehousing
  • Experience testing RESTful/SOAP APIs
  • Troubleshooting, debugging and reverse-engineering skills.
  • Experience with modern scripting languages (Shell, Python, Perl) will be an added advantage.
  • Agile/Scrum development methodology experience
    

• Gartner Analyst acclaimed technology leadership across our categories of products.
• Continuous learning and development opportunities
• An innovative, inclusive, agile, flexible, and fun work environment
• Competitive global benefits program inclusive of pay and bonus incentive, employee equity in the company.
• The opportunity to make a tangible impact on Pega's business operations and ability to scale.
  
  

Job ID: 23304