Senior Test Engineer / Engineering

Job Description

Position SummaryTesting Engineers work closely with software developers and Engineering manager/scrum master by being part of the same team. This position involves defining, designing and executing test cases/test suites/test scripts using a variety of technologies with a focus on delivering great quality of the product.Organization Grade Position Title Senior Test Engineer Department Engineering Reporting Relationships Director Software Engineering Cross Functional Relationships IT, Product Management, UX, Marketing, Analytics and Operations Location ChennaiEssential DutiesBasically, this position is for the base / component testing team across the sprint team. Majorly accountable with the automation infra structure & new implementations. Apart from this following are required R & R for this candidature.STLC / TC LC / BLC 1. Responsible to check the feasibility of user stories, which could be automated or stay as manual due to any limitations 2. Responsible for mentoring below level members to help them in understanding the product and processes. 3. Responsible to understand & designing / creating the test scenarios / cases with help of testing pyramid for UI, API, batch jobs (If possible performance & security) across all the user stories 4. Responsible to do proper sizing / estimating of the user stories in respective sprint ceremonies 5. Responsible in providing technical expertise, e.g. proper use of test techniques in appropriate cases 6. Responsible to monitoring / creating test data / dump preparation for execution 7. Responsible to Identifying the bugs and logging into Jira with complete details 8. Responsible to follow defined BLC to verify the fixes & guiding the fellow team members 9. Responsible to reviewing manual testcases / scenarios which was contributed by the team & signed off from PO 10. Responsible to step down to take up the below level R & R / step up for above level R & R , in emergency or when team requires 11. Responsible in updating test cases based on the discovered defects 12. Responsible to bug classification & analysis13. Majorly responsible for removal & control on duplication, deprecated, in complete test scenarios / cases ALC / CI 1. Responsible for Automating current sprint user stories with defined DOD2. Majorly responsible for mapping automation cases to manual cases (Once after the test case renovations) 3. Responsible to do peer reviewing code / Automated cases done by the team 4. Responsible in enhancing the existing automated tests of CI pipeline 5. Responsible to debug the code on auto fixes 6. Running CI suites, analysing the results, escalating issues on time, Reporting the bugs accurately with complete level of details 7. Responsible for CI Post mortem QA Metrics / Documentation1. Responsible to share Test coverage / Defect metrics @ Release / Monthly Metrics 2. Responsible to contribute for QA Practises docs are created, updated and maintained regularly 3. Majorly responsible to Create Test plans, Test sign off & other testing related documents for all the releasesGeneral Testing Practises & Governance1. Sharing knowledge via QA training session 2. Responsible to communicate across the teams & get the common QA testing practises & governances 3. Able to identify issues/risks in the work assigned early in the cycle. 4. Responsible to evaluate existing testing process and suggest improvements in terms of adoption of new approaches which shorten test cycles, improve quality.Innovations / Learning curve 1. Participating / Creating in quick POC s, Tool evaluations & quick implementations on new concepts 2. Contribution for automation framework for different taxonomy of testing 3. Learning new technologies / tools & sharing to the fellow testing communityCompetencies, Experience & Other requirementsEducation / Certifications:

• Any Bachelor s degree preferable in Computer Science and Engineering/Information Technology or equivalent technical degree
• Any Technical certifications or ISTQB certification would be a plus.
• Scrum Certification would be a plus.

Experience:

• Minimum 5 years of experience in software testing environment (both manual and automation experience).
• Minimum 3 years of UI testing Selenium Web driver & any other UI auto tools
• Minimum 2 years into API testing
• Minimum knowledge on ETL, Performance & Security testing
• Experience with SQL / MangoDB database management systems a plus
• Experience with SRUM process is a plus

Tools & Technologies:

• Basic knowledge / hands on experience in Python / Java
• Experience with UI Automation tools like Selenium & API Clients Rest Assured, OKclient . HTTPClient, Pyrest Test, Siseta & Request etc

Competencies

• Collaboration Remain committed to collaboration through shared goals (responsibility), candid communication and self & team motivation
• Learning agility Ability to remain positive in an unfamiliar terrain through continuous learning
• Commitment and ownership Driving Success by remaining reliable and dependable
• Stakeholder partnership Developing a detailed understanding and appreciation of stakeholder needs through stronger networks and by powerful probing
• Delivering business impact Supporting accomplishment of our organizational goal by acquiring deeper business knowledge and remaining result oriented
• High quality Clean code, testing, integration and delivery.

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Keyskills :
test casesregression testingautomationreportingjavacross functional relationshipstest dataqa testingui testinguser storiesui automationtest coveragetest scenariostesting processsoftware testing