Specialist QA Engineer with Eggplant

SUMMARY:

We are urgently looking for a Specialist QA Engineer with Eggplant.

POSITION INFO:

JOB DESCRIPTION INFORMATION

Job Title: Specialist QA Engineer with Eggplant
Duration: 9 Months
Work Location: Remote

MORE ABOUT THE PROJECT:

• 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.

MORE ABOUT THE PROJECT:

• 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.

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 Repo’s / Azure Pipelines / Azure Test configs.
• JMeter.
• IM’s integration.

CORE DUTIES/ 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 organization’s CI/CD pipelines.
· Maintain awareness of application risks and opportunities for improvement.
· Manage and provide support aligned to all SLA’s.
· 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 you’ve designed and executed test scripts / plans.
· Produce quality and testing outcome metrics and reports.

BACKGROUND AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

• 3 years / 5 years.

MANDATORY SKILLS:

• Azure / Jenkins related skills
• Azure / Git repositories
• Azure / Jenkins pipeline
• Azure YAML pipelines / Jenkins (Pipeline for code) (1 yr)
• Reporting to stakeholders
• Automation related skills
• Test case development (3 yr)
• Test cycles knowledge (3 yr)
• Selenium / Eggplant / py-test related coding knowledge (3 yr)
• Data driven testing (3 yr)
• Model based testing (3 yr)
• Device farm testing (1 yr)
• Reporting to stakeholders

DESIRED SKILLS:

• API testing knowledge
• SOAP UI / Postman / Smart Bear / Karate
• Performance testing knowledge
• Jmeter / Load runner / Eggplant Performance / NeoLoad
• SQL Knowledge

 

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