Test Engineer

Job Description

Summary of Responsibilities

Manage and support monthly patch testing related to Infrastructure, RDBMS, Application systems and any other systems. Cross-work across different teams in the pipeline to in managing patching process.

Support Infrastructure-related projects. Develop and support application testing strategies, create test plans and test scripts. Lead and coordinate quality assurance and testing activities in support of projects with business testers. Perform system, regression, and functional testing. Create testing timelines for projects, including milestones, and provide daily updates to the project team of progress against timeline. Create reports and dashboards on defect metrics and testing progress using test management tool (Qtest). Develop automation framework in support of projects.

Essential Job Duties

• Perform monthly coordination of various patching.
• Analyze and understand solution requirements, architecture, technical designs and processes to define necessary scope of automated testing.
• Java Utilities and test harnesses
• Spring Boot
• REST API s
• Coordinate functional, technical and vendor resources in testing efforts to ensure testing process and procedure are followed.
• Develop test strategy, test plan and communicate strategy to relevant
  disciplines/stakeholders clearly and appropriately.
• Develop and modify test scenarios and test scripts.
• Perform manual and automated system, regression and functional testing.
• Review test scripts to ensure appropriate tests are created and executed correctly to verify requirements.
• Manage testing effort and defects though defect lifecycle.
• Create testing progress reports, dashboard and test coverage using test management tool Qtest.
• Develop and promote quality testing practices.
• Ensure that testing is completed to agreed standards and that business and operational acceptance criteria are met.
• Liaise with other management and IT disciplines to ensure project testing objectives are met.
• Report to management on testing and quality requirements/activities in order to identify any deviations from plan and to carry out any necessary corrective action.
• Supports test data requests.
• In addition to the duties and responsibilities listed, perform tasks assigned by the supervisor and manager.
• Report to management on automated and manual testing and quality
  requirements/activities, to identify deviations from plan and carry out corrective action.
• Participate in product design reviews to provide input on functional requirements, product designs, schedules or potential problems that may impact the quality of
  automation regression suite or overall product features.

In addition to the duties and responsibilities listed, the job holder is required to develop automation scripts assigned by the supervisor/manager as being required by projects.

Top 3 traits/characteristics:

• Good communication skills. Someone who can communicate effectively and provide any crucial issues, provide status in meetings, etc.
• Be able to work independently without much KT and coaching at the same time be good team player.
• Be able to accept any type of work given to them and also have the resiliency to deal with stressful circumstances and deadlines without sacrificing performance or quality of work.

Required technical skills

• Strong understanding of Infrastructure
• Experience with Selenium test automation tool
• Experience with general software development life cycle practices.
• Oracle RDBMS. This includes competency with PL/SQL and a general familiarity with general concepts such as relational database analysis and design as well as SQL
  tuning.
• Experience with general Software Quality Assurance/Quality Control testing techniques,
  standards, practices, and related technologies.

Education

• Bachelor s degree in Engineering, Computer Sciences, Information Systems or related field or eight years applicable experience is required.

Work Experience

• At least 2-3 years experience in running automation scripts using Test Suite.
• Experience in creating different types of execution reports of Automation scripts through Tosca Reports.
• Minimum of 5 years (in excess of degree requirements stated above) of progressively responsible experience in Software system and application testing.
• 5+ years of experience with software Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) practices. This includes common test design techniques.
• 3+ years of managing and coordinating system and application testing
• Demonstrable experience of creating quality assurance artifacts to include test plans,
  test scripts and test reporting.
• Experience using PL/SQL for data validation
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Superior computer skills including common business applications such as MS Windows and MS Office including Excel, Word and Access
• Familiarity with general concepts surrounding web services and web applications. This includes web technologies such as HTML 5, CSS, and JQuery.
• Experience working with GUI object recognition and customization.
• Familiarity with common source control systems and configuration management.
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies.
• Proven ability to deliver quality results in a busy and dynamic business focused environment.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Comfortable in both, a UNIX and Windows based environment.