Senior Associate QA L2

Company description

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting and customer obsession to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.

Overview

Having quick turnaround and increased test coverage is the need of the hour; hence the increased emphasis on automation testing across projects. Publicis Sapient is looking for automation experts who in addition to the expertise in the tools and techniques also have the knack to understand the business needs, ROI and accordingly create the automation strategy. Assures consistent quality of Software Applications production by developing and enforcing robust Automated Software QE strategy, practices, and processes, providing documentation and managing people. They collaborate the with the project, business and (QE) teams, to develop detailed automated scripts, test frameworks to make the overall system more effective and efficient for our clients.

Responsible for the overall quality of the project through effective QE leadership and management to ensure that all deliverables in terms of time, price and quality are met.

This individual must have a proven track record of success building, leading, and managing a functional and technical QE team with a strong sense of quality ownership. This is a hands-on job that requires strategic thinking and planning to provide leadership and expertise throughout the entire QA lifecycle, ensuring the success of the team's manual and automation efforts in an agile working environment.

Experience Required: 4-9.5 years

Role: Senior Quality Engineer

Education: Full time Bachelor’s/Master’s engineering degree

Qualifications

Role Requirements Technical skills:

Must Haves

• Experience with QE for distributed, highly scalable systems
• Good understanding of OOPS concepts and strong programming skills in Java, Groovy or JavaScript
• Hands on experience of working with at least one of GUI based test automation tools for desktop and/or mobile automation. Experience on multiple tools will be added advantage
• Proficient in writing SQL queries
• Familiarity with process of test automation tool selection & test approach
• Experience in designing and development of automation framework and creation of scripts using best industry practices such as Page object model
• Integrate test suites into the test management system and custom test harness
• Familiar with implementation of design patterns, modularization, and user libraries for framework creation
• Can mentor team as well as has short learning curve for new technology
• Understands all aspects of Quality Engineering
• Understanding of SOAP and REST principles
• Thorough understanding of microservices architecture
• In-depth hands-on experience of working with at least one API testing tool like RestAssured, SOAP UI, NodeJS
• Hands-on experience working with Postman or similar tool
• Hands-on experience in parsing complex JSON & XML and data validation using serialization techniques like POJO classes or similar
• Hands-on experience in performing Request and Response Schema validation, Response codes and exceptions
• Good Understanding of BDD, TDD methodologies and tools like Cucumber, TestNG, Junit or similar.
• Experience in defining API E2E testing strategy, designing and development of API automation framework
• Working experience on build tools Maven / Gradle, Git etc.
• Experience in creating test pipeline – CI/CD

Preferred:

• Possess domain knowledge to identify issues across those domains, understand their impact, and drive resolution [(familiar / expert in domains like retail banking, automobile, insurance, betting, food-markets, hotel industry, healthcare)
• Used /Exposure to automation tool for automating mobile applications
• Used /Exposure to automation tool for non-functional testing
• To setup test environment for execution on cloud environments such as Sauce labs, browser stack
• Knowledge of new tools (open source & licensed) in the automation world and have the knack to explore them and keep abreast with the latest tools in the market
• Expertise in creating test automation frameworks, implementing and maintaining them on a project Experience in the modern agile practices such as BDD/Cucumber , Devops
• Knowledge and experience in service virtualization and tools like CA Lisa
• Hands-on knowledge of setting up PACT Broker and writing PACT tests is desirable
• Experience in test management tools like Xray & Zephyr and integration of test framework with these tools
• Understanding of commonly used software design patterns like Builder, Factory, Singleton and Façade.

Test Management:

Must Haves

• Able to estimate for low and medium complexity applications and have used at least one of the estimation techniques.
• Able to handle/oversight a small team ranging from 2 -5 people and can guide them during the complete SDLC cycle starting from test case creation till test closure activities
• Well-versed with the most of the activities in defect management process, can define/enhance the defect documentation and TAR lifecycle process independently
• Have expertise to enforce/adhere defect or other processes in the team

Preferred (Mostly for people being hired at the Senior Associate Career Stage)

• Mentored or coached at least one person
• Can define Automation Test strategy and test plan for low and medium complexity applications taking into account the business needs, ROI etc.
• Able to maintain and report test coverage matrix
• Able to identify device coverage for the application in question.
• Can devise regression testing approach

Soft Skills:

• Possess excellent Communication skills (written, verbal both formal & informal)
• Helps to create a positive, collaborative working environment for the team.
• Quick grasping and flexibility to adapt to new technologies/processes
• Ability to multi-task under pressure and work independently with minimal supervision. i.e. Ability to prioritize when under pressure
• Efficiently makes tough decisions and communicates them effectively.
• Independently manages operational level client meetings. Develops strong relationships with appropriate client stakeholders. Acts as the primary POC/facilitator for planned (regular) client meetings. Manages peer-level client relationships (expectations, communications, negotiations, escalation, feedback, etc.)

Additional information

• Gender-Neutral Policy
• 18 paid holidays throughout the year.
• Generous parental leave and new parent transition program
• Flexible work arrangements
• Employee Assistance Programs to help you in wellness and well being

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