Sr. Quality Test Engineer

Overview

Sr. Quality Test Engineer on an inter-disciplinary team building end-to-end automation solutions connecting the Advisor Platform, Investor Platform and Teammates, working closely with product and engineering to improve product quality and shorten release time from dev to production.

What you'll do

• Actively participate in Agile Scrum ceremonies and lead where applicable: PI Planning, Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Defect Review, Sprint Demo, Retrospectives.
• Participate in story grooming, analyze and understand user story acceptance criteria.
• Develop and execute test plans and test cases based on user stories and ensure proper test coverage.
• Perform in-sprint testing, service/API testing, integration / E2E testing, regression, final build certification and release day testing.
• Automate tests using internal and open source tools and infrastructure.
• Review user interfaces for conformity and functionality.
• Work with software engineers to understand product architecture, integrations and features.
• Create and maintain data scenarios to support test plans and test cases.
• Analyze test results and be a vocal proponent for quality in every phase of the development process.
• Document and track bugs to closure and report project status to stakeholders.
• Write complex queries to perform data validation.
• Serve as SME for one or more functional areas and act as technology ambassador for automation and building efficient solutions.
• Lead process and technology improvement efforts and KPIs/OKRs within the quality engineering team and wider organization to improve engineer productivity, speed and quality.
• Lead releases and project delivery.
• Drive actions and a shift-left strategy to improve quality.
• Champion a customer-obsession culture and deliver products and features that exceed customer expectations.
• Coach fellow team members on best practices.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of experience, or Master's degree with 5+ years of experience, in a technical field, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent.
• 5+ years of experience as a Developer, QA Engineer or SDET.
• 5+ years working with test processes, methodologies, tools and technology.
• Understanding of CI/CD and experience leveraging or implementing CI/CD.
• Hands-on experience with automation frameworks such as Appium, Selenium, TestNG, BDD frameworks/Cucumber, Playwright etc.
• Hands-on coding experience in one of C#, Java, JavaScript or .Net.
• Hands-on experience with web services testing and automation.
• Proficient in SQL, able to understand and write complex SQL queries; understanding of shift-left concepts and how to enable them.
• Effective analytical, troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Working knowledge of software development methodologies, including Agile/Scrum.

Nice to have

• Prior experience working as a developer or SDET in Agile/Scrum teams.
• Financial industry experience.
• Experience with security testing (SAST and DAST) and tools.
• Experience with accessibility testing.

Details

• Location: Hyderabad.