Specialist QA Engineer

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JOB DESCRIPTION INFORMATION

Job Title

Specialist QA Engineer with Eggplant

Duration

April to December 2023

Work Location:

Remote

Rate

Based on experience

More About The Area & Team

Design automation testing plans and develop automation test scripts for multiple technical products/services (pre, during & post-deployment) in both Run & Change contexts and align to chosen application testing frameworks & guidelines. Testing may apply to all or a combination of the following front-end, back-end, integration, performance, scalability, and regression testing of solutions. This entails full responsibility for ensuring products are protected through quantifiable test coverage & metrics.

Design and implementation of CI/CD pipelines. Integration to different IM systems. Pipelines apply to Automated GUI testing and on a service layer (API Testing). This entails responsibility for scaling of CI/CD pipelines and streamlining processes for testing and integration of existing developer pipelines.

More About The Project

Problem to solve
Solution/Deliverable
Attractive Tech exposure

Problem To Solve

Increasing the efficiency and consistency of testing
Reduce the time to market
Increase the end-user experience of the solution

Solution / Deliverable

Create a digital twin of the application that needs to be automated
Create suite/scripts that get attached to the digital twin
Gather the required data for the testing/execution process
Create YAML pipelines to run automated scripts
Report back to stakeholders on bugs/issues and successes

Tech Exposure

Eggplant Functional automation tool
Eggplant Digital Automation Intelligence
Azure Repos / Azure Pipelines / Azure Test configs
JMeter
IMs integration

Requirements

Job Description / Responsibilities:

DevOps

Follow engineering best practices and continuously improve on engineering knowledge to successfully shift QA capability forward
Leverage coding language, expert understanding of how to deploy testing requirements for specific products or services
Understand the full technical solution being tested show interest and capability to run the technical solution and the ability to test the viability of the code being developed
Shift from testing features to supporting and being accountable for full product delivery
Apply critical thinking and problem-solving skills to solve technical problems
Supervise and maintain the organizations CI/CD pipelines
Maintain awareness of application risks and opportunities for improvement
Manage and provide support aligned to all SLAs
Coordinate and communicate across Tribes and squads to successfully complete application upgrades
Understand timeframe requirements and how to communicate them successfully to Stakeholders.
Able to function independently in order to always make sure to have the correct/required access to all platforms, devices, environments etc. In order to limit time spent on attaining set access in critical situations.

QA Engineering

Proactively contribute & participate in the full solution development lifecycle as a member of a squad / multiple squads as an QA automation specialist engineer
Actively participate in daily Scrum and project planning meetings.
Participate and analyse test automation requirements during the requirements analysis phase of technical product & service development, maintenance & optimization (across tribes & squads) using design specifications and technical documentation (e.g. Business Briefs, User Stories, Architecture & Integration documentation)
Prepare QA & Automation testing documentation (planning, design, execution and sustainability)
Develop automation test plans
Develop and execute automated test scripts using various technologies (automated scripts, test harnesses, SQL scripts etc.)
Perform various types of automation testing (regression, integration, black box, scalability)
Evaluate automated test cases and analyse & report results
Facilitate test plan/case reviews within squads
Work with product engineers to evaluate software / solution quality & provide recommendations for improvement / enhancement
Contribute to the design and selection of testing frameworks for business applications
Deliver all automation & technical testing deliverables on time (always)
Provide the required project / scrum related information / feedback on deliverables (e.g. progress, tracking, quality etc.)
Conduct performance monitoring on applications / components of applications on which youve designed and executed test scripts / plans
Produce quality and testing outcome metrics and reports

Background And Experience Required