QA Engineer (Java/ python, Selenium/ Protactor)

Job Description

NielsenIQ BASES is the global leader and gold-standard for helping companies in the consumer goods industries to realize their growth strategies. BASES analytical SaaS products provide support to clients to create and evolve new innovations, optimize impactful advertising and messaging aligned with the widening range of consumer influences, build compelling package designs and help prioritize and plan product launches. Having decades of successful leadership across fast moving consumer goods, BASES is expanding into growth verticals including Restaurants, Tech, Household Durables, Consumer Electronics, and Gaming. 

With best-in-class research, success prediction and volumetric forecasting models, NielsenIQ BASES is at the core of our clients' new product ideas, messaging, packaging and product launch strategies. Join BASES and you will work with industry leading brands, marketers, and cutting-edge technologies while seeing your work come to life. In BASES, you can. Be curious. Be collaborative. Be forward thinking.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the Product Quality of Minor features.
• Understand requirements and scope
• Identify inconsistencies and gaps in requirements and communicate with Product Owner
• Serve as a Quality Assurance Engineer on teams that will execute projects from beginning to end, including working with product management, gathering requirements, brainstorming solutions, testing final applications
• Maintain knowledge of the architecture of the platform and product features
• Maintain complete functional knowledge of the product
• Create and execute manual functional test cases 
• Identify test cases for automation & discuss most efficient type of automation for identified cases
• Design, Create and Execute automated functional test cases 
• Log defects and co-ordinate with developers to resolve them
• Setup and maintain test data
• Provide end-user perspective for feature under test
• Work closely with other teams for cross functional requirements and collaboration
• Participate in design and code reviews
• Educate new hires and team members on application, tools, technologies, processes
• Follow community best practices and team SDLC guidelines
  
  

Expected competencies

• Accountable - Always executes at a high level regardless of undertaking
• Analytical - Examines multiple sources of information to assess problems/opportunities
• Creative - Explores multiple, different, new and unfamiliar approaches as potential solutions
• Customer Focused - Listens and asks questions to understand customer needs and evaluate situation
• Collaborative - Openly and proactively shares perspectives and challenges ideas
• Communication skills - Effective oral and written communication
• Detail Oriented
• Learning business and technical subject matter
• Shows initiative
  
  

Growth areas

• Technical Design
• Business domain knowledge
• Influencing and team communication
• Effort estimation
• Requirement analysis
• Impact Analysis
• Exploratory testing skills and testing methodologies
  
  

Qualifications

• 1 to 3 years of QA automation experience
• BS in Software Engineering or related discipline
• Hands on experience in test automation tools like Selenium or Protractor
• Knowledge in at least one programming language or scripting languages
• Experience with Object-Oriented design and development
• Strong test validation and test debugging skills
• Strong understanding of Software Quality Assurance (SQA) concepts and practices to continually assess the risks and quality of products and releases.
• Experience with Web-application/Cross browser testing
• Experience of Database testing
• Experience working with Cloud based applications is nice to have
• Experience working in onshore-offshore model
• Familiarity working in Agile-Scrum environment and software production release process
• Excellent interpersonal skills, excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Passion for learning new technologies
  
  

Additional Information

Our Benefits

• Flexible working environment
• Volunteer time off
• LinkedIn Learning
• Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)
  
  

About NIQ

NIQ is the world’s leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. In 2023, NIQ combined with GfK, bringing together the two industry leaders with unparalleled global reach. With a holistic retail read and the most comprehensive consumer insights—delivered with advanced analytics through state-of-the-art platforms—NIQ delivers the Full View™. NIQ is an Advent International portfolio company with operations in 100+ markets, covering more than 90% of the world’s population.

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