Responsibilities:

Act as QA lead on diverse projects
Lead analysis for developing test cases and test data in search-intensive back-end data applications to uncover defects early
Clearly define test plans, scenarios, scripts, and procedures
Perform hands-on manual testing and script automated tests for application functionality, performance, and security
Continuously develop and share best practices for designing and maintaining robust QA Automation Suites
Liaise with business analysts and product owners, providing feedback on application readiness for migrations
Involved in all phases of the agile software development lifecycle
Write clean, high-quality scripts for automatic testing of product functionality
Conduct various tests for systems integration, UI, applications, databases, and APIs
Identify cases for automation, discussing them with the QA Team
Develop automation solutions based on clients’ requirements
Collaborate with cross-functional teams (developers, product managers, QA Team) to enhance workflow through automation
Participate in brainstorms to generate ideas and designs that improve existing features

Qualifications:

Experience:

1 to 3 years of professional experience in Software Quality Assurance and Test Automation

Skills and Knowledge:

Passion for working and growing as a Software QA Engineer
Ability to analyze acceptance criteria and discuss scenarios with the team to identify potential issues proactively
Proficient in building automated test scripts and planning tests and strategies according to the project
Thorough and disciplined, with the ability to analyze problems and assess issue severity
Dedicated team worker with strong collaboration skills
Proven excellence in problem-solving and analytics
Demonstrated excellent communication skills
Familiarity with Agile workflow, Atlassian Jira, and Confluen

Technical Expertise:

Strong understanding of object-oriented programming
Good knowledge of a programming/scripting language: JAVA, C# .Net, Scripting, Python
Ability to write clean, readable, and easily maintainable QA automation workflows
Experience in testing web services, including RESTful APIs
Experience in performance testing using tools such as Apache JMeter
Experience testing Search clusters like Solr, Lucene, and Elastic Search
Proficient in SQL and relational database concepts; experience or knowledge of NoSQL DB, preferably MongoDB
Technical familiarity with development concepts and formats such as SQL, XML, JSON, and scripting languages for testing non-GUI applications
Proficient understanding of code versioning tools and familiarity with Continuous Integration environments
Knowledge of AWS services would be a strong plus.

QA Automation Engineer