Staff QA Engineer

5 Months ago • 8 Years +

Quality Assurance

Job Description

Enphase Energy is seeking a Staff QA Engineer to join their cloud team. This role involves assessing and improving the quality of software products, working closely with product managers and developers throughout the product lifecycle. Responsibilities include owning end-to-end quality, designing high-quality test cases, reviewing team work, and providing feedback. The engineer will add manual and automated tests for APIs, databases, and UI layers, acting as a gatekeeper for product quality. They will also define and execute non-functional tests, debug issues, and drive quality metrics. The role requires analyzing test progress and reporting on system quality daily, improvising test case designs, and working within an agile framework to deliver quality in a fast-paced environment. Identifying integration points and designing tests for them is also key. The ideal candidate will contribute to delivering quality solutions for complex engineering challenges.

Good To Have:

Development experience is an added advantage
Experience as technical lead/architect with cloud and digital SW
Knowledge of data analytics and machine learning

Must Have:

Own E2E quality of system under test
Design high-quality test cases
Review team work and provide feedback
Add manual and automated tests on APIs, database, UI
Act as gatekeeper for product quality
Define, write, and execute non-functional tests
Debug issues and help developers
Drive quality metrics
Analyze test progress and report quality
Improvise test case designs
Work in agile, early-to-market environment
Identify integration points and design tests
BE/BTech in Computer Science or equivalent
8+ years of experience in testing/development
5+ years of experience testing high-scale distributed applications
Excellent programming and debugging skills
Experience in negative testing
Provide out-of-box solutions for quality
Strong understanding of cloud, databases, and performance
Go-getter attitude
Lean/Agile attitude
Proactive and results-oriented
Team player/builder
Good stakeholder management
Experience in providing estimates and planning

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Description

Enphase Energy is a global energy technology company and leading provider of solar, battery, and electric vehicle charging products. Founded in 2006, Enphase transformed the solar industry with our revolutionary microinverter technology, which turns sunlight into a safe, reliable, resilient, and scalable source of energy to power our lives. Today, the Enphase Energy System helps people make, use, save, and sell their own power. Enphase is also one of the fastest growing and innovative clean energy companies in the world, with approximately 68 million products installed across more than 145 countries.

We are building teams that are designing, developing, and manufacturing next-generation energy technologies and our work environment is fast-paced, fun and full of exciting new projects.

If you are passionate about advancing a more sustainable future, this is the perfect time to join Enphase!

About the Role

The Enphase cloud team is looking for a SDET for its software products. In this role, you will work with product managers, business owners and developers to assess the quality of software products at par with best-in-class solutions in the market.  

You will be responsible for analyzing and making recommendations for improving the quality of our cloud services and applications across our ecosystem. You will be involved in every part of the product cycle, from high-level design to development and validation.  

What you will do:

Own the complete E2E quality ownership of the system under test
Able to design test cases that are of high quality which helps improving quality of the system
Help team to design good test cases, review their work and give feedback
Add manual and automated tests on APIs, database and UI layer
Be the gate keeper on the quality of the product
Define, write, and execute non-functional tests and analyze results. 
Debug the issues and help developers to design the best software product.
Drive quality metrics on system under test, be responsible for quality of the system.

Analyse the tests, progress of the tests and report to the management on the quality of the system on day-to-day basis
Improvise the test case designs, negative tests, repeatability tests, data validation, impact and risk-based testing.
Able to work on agile, early to market without any compromise on quality
Able to identify different integration points with downstream and upstream applications and design tests to cover them.

Who you are and what you bring:

BE/BTech in Computer science Engineering, or equivalent experience 
8+ years of experience in software development/testing
5+ years of experience testing high scale applications with distributed architecture 
Excellent programming skills and ability to debug issues at the code level, development experience is an added advantage.
Experience in negative testing 
Provide out of box solution to deliver quality in a fast-paced development organization. 
Strong understanding of cloud, databases, and performance tradeoffs . 
Go-getter attitude and capable of pursuing tough engineering challenges to final solutions. 
Lean / Agile attitude 
Proactive and results-oriented 
Team player/builder; possess a “can-do” attitude.
Good at stakeholder management
Experience in providing estimates, plan and committed to deliverables.
Strong technical and leadership skills: decisive, determined, strategic, and able to lead, motivate, and inspire others. 
Experience as software technical lead/architect with cloud and digital SW is a plus.