Staff Engineer (QA Automation)

👋🏼We're Nagarro, we are a Digital Product Engineering company that is scaling in a big way! We build products, services, and experiences that inspire, excite, and delight. We work at scale across all devices and digital mediums, and our people exist everywhere in the world (18000+ experts across 36 countries, to be exact). Our work culture is dynamic and non-hierarchical. We are looking for great new colleagues. That is where you come in! 

REQUIREMENTS:

• 6+ years of experience in Quality Engineering
• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes
• Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test case
• Experience in testing of APIs, Microservices, Web app
• Hands-on coding experience in Java. Can write efficient, modular, and maintainable code.
• Experience with open-source testing tool/framework like Selenium, Rest Assured, Karate, Cucumber BDD, TestNG, etc.
• Experience in working on Linux/Unix environment
• Solid Knowledge of SQL, NoSQL, and pub-sub technologies
• Knowledge of Git, Jenkins, CI/CD, Azure DevOps
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process
• Outstanding problem solving, troubleshooting and debugging skills
• Good oral and written communication skills
• Great team player and able to work efficiently with minimal supervision
   

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the projects functional and non-functional requirements and the business context of the application being developed. Understanding and documenting requirements validated by the SMEs
• Interacting with clients to identify the scope of testing, expectations, acceptance criteria and availability of test data and environment. Working closely with product owner in defining and refining acceptance criteria.
• Preparing test plan/strategy
• Estimating the test effort and preparing schedules for testing activities, assigning tasks, identifying constraints and dependencies
• Risk management – identifying, mitigating and resolving business and technical risks. Determines the potential causes of problems and analyses multiple alternatives.
• Designing and developing a framework for automated testing following the project's design and coding guidelines. Set up best practices for test automation.
• Preparing test reports to summarize the outcome of the testing phase and recommending whether the application is in a shippable state or not
• Communicating measurable quality metrics, with the ability to highlight problem areas and suggest solutions
• Participating in retrospective meetings, helping identify the root cause of any quality related issue and identifying ways to continuously improve the testing process
• Conducting demos of the application for internal and external stakeholders
• Reviewing all testing artifacts prepared by the team and ensuring that defects found during the review are tracked to closure
• Working with team and stakeholders to triage and prioritize defects for resolution
• Giving constructive feedback to the team members and setting clear expectations

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field.