Overview
Senior QA Engineer
Why this job matters
In this job, you’ll be responsible for the test automation approach and methodology for quality assurance of BT/EE platform solutions. You’ll provide technical leadership and strategic direction to automation or QA engineers, resolving the test project issues, and ensuring effective test process improvement feedback. You’ll be critical in ensuring that test architecture and test plans are up to date relative to changes in the Digital landscape. You’ll confidently lead and share knowledge with a team of engineers. You’ll define the automation first approach within development sprints, identify issues with the manual activities whilst using your own initiative to find the right solution for any faults found in dev, test and production. You will also be responsible for implementing latest technology, in line with our continuous integration and delivery goals.
What you’ll be doing
- Define the test automation driven QA approach and methodology for BT/EE platform solutions
- Be Agile, Test Driven and a highly technical tester.
- Steering the direction of the API testing and Database testing
- You will work directly with Test Architects and define automation approach, write test plans but can still deliver hands on technically. Whether that be API testing or building test frameworks from scratch.
- Analyze competitive products and technologies with appropriate suggestions to influence product / technology direction.
- Collaborate with test and development engineers on application & testing architecture, to ensure that the approaches and technologies applied to the current implementation are sound and fit for purpose.
- Coordinating the tasks within sprints and looking at ways to automate manual activities within software delivery process.
- Coordinating test automation activities within projects, including planning and delivering the test phases on time and within budget while meeting all quality objectives.
- Understanding of programming principles and best practice (e.g. DRY, SOLID for creating re-usable code, best practice etc)
- Own the end to end code quality and code performance KPI’s
- Perform end to end testing for Identity tribe
- Proactive monitoring of Production estate code.
Skills and Experience Required
- Having around 8-10 years of experience as a QA with 5+ years of experience into API Automation testing.
- Worked with E2E testing of Enterprise level API driven front and backend systems.
- Expertise in testing methodologies, test techniques and agile QA practices
- Good communication skills of test status across engineering team and stakeholders
- Hands on experience in Java/JS/Typescript, RestAssured, Postman.
- Background in DevOps tooling for execution of automation tests such as Jenkins, GIT, PAAS, Monitoring / Log aggregation, CI/CD.
- Experience of integrating test scripts into Continuous Integration Pipelines
- Working knowledge of Database Migration testing and SQL queries
- Working knowledge of JIRA / Confluence, GIT, Jenkins.
- Understanding of complex Headless / Serverless front end testing requirements
- 5+ years of experience architecting and building test automation frameworks.
- Experience with cloud technology such as AWS, Azure etc.
- Experience with BDD or TDD
- TMMi experience or certification (desirable).
- ISTQB (Advanced)
- Experience working with offshore and onshore teams
- Test Management experience across major IT projects & programmes.
- Overall testing strategies and implementation experience
- Good to have people management experience
Our leadership standards
Looking in:
Leading inclusively and Safely
I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.
Owning outcomes
I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.
Looking out:
Delivering for the customer
I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.
Commercially savvy
I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.
Looking to the future:
Growth mindset
I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.
Building for the future
I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.
A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:
Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.
We will also offer reasonable adjustments for the selection process if required, so please do not hesitate to inform us.
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- Pune, Maharashtra, India
- Pune, Maharashtra, India
- Pune, Maharashtra, India
- Pune, Maharashtra, India
- Pune, Maharashtra, India