Associate Staff Engineer, QA

Company Description

We are a Digital Product Engineering company that is scaling in a big way! We build products, services, and experiences that inspire, excite, and delight. We work at scale — across all devices and digital mediums, and our people exist everywhere in the world (18000+ experts across 37 countries, to be exact). Our work culture is dynamic and non-hierarchical. We are looking for great new colleagues. That is where you come in!

Job Description

• Implement the test approach and strategy for the team 
• Develop and publish test plans, procedures and final test reports  
• Develop detailed test cases to meet software requirements  
• Provide walkthroughs of test plan/approach to the development team and provide reports to stakeholders  
• Report, review, and close problem reports  
• Ability to execute automated and manual test cases, publish and discuss test results with project stakeholders  
• Work within a highly collaborative software development team that utilizes Agile Development methodologies.  
• Identify software problems during testing, determine steps to reproduce them, and enter them into a defect-tracking database with detailed troubleshooting  
• Manage code deployments to production and carry out post deployment verification  
• Build clear, concise, and complete test-related documentation  
• Participate in all aspects of QA within the company; implementing approaches and strategies for the software development lifecycle using automation where possible  
• Ability to access software readiness by reviewing performance metrics   
• Train and mentor other team members (both developers and testers) and promote best development practices  
• Perform other duties as required and assigned by manager and upper management. 
• Complete tasks with minimal supervision 
• Follow legal policies as directed. 

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related discipline or equivalent years of experience 
• 5+ years hands-on experience with automation frameworks  
• 5+ years of experience in at least one software programming language (Java,Spring, Python, etc.)  
• 3+ years' experience with agile methodologies such as Scrum and XP  
• Expert knowledge in relational and/or NoSQL databases  
• Expert in debugging and reviewing software application code  
• Expert in testing database integration issues, preferably with Oracle and SQL  
• Ability to create clear and concise technical documentation  
• Very good problem-solving and communication skills and experience working closely with developers  
• Proficient in git and Github, or similar RCS (subversion, CVS, mercurial).   
• Experience with Linux (Ubuntu and bash experience preferred)  
• Proficient inTest Driven Development/Behavior Driven Development, unit testing & functional testing practices and tools  
• Ability to adopt a new test framework versions or tools   
• Competent using IDEs like Eclipse, IntelliJ  
• Proficient testing micro service architecture  
• Experience in build automation tools using Maven 
• Restful Web Services  
• Data Structures  
• Knowledge in CI/CD and DevOps Principles  
• Knowledge in containerization Kubernetes/Docker  
• Knowledge in Product Management and Process Improvement