Quality Assurance Engineer at Altron Bytes Systems Integration

Job Purpose:

The successful candidate in this role will form a part of the Quality Assurance Team to ensure that a high-quality product is delivered to our Client. Your main function will be that of a QA Analyst and Test Automation Engineer. We need a person who is passionate about Testing, Test Automation and Quality. You need to perform Testing as well as Develop and Maintain the automation code in accordance with specifications and agreed timescales.

Responsibilities:

• Manual Testing
• Requirement Analysis; Create test plans and test scripts; Execute test plans.
• Identify and analyse defects. Log defects and track defect resolution.
• Create and maintain Automation test cases.
• Maintain quality assurance environment.
• Perform manual feature testing

Test Automation

• Implement automation tools and frameworks (CI/CD pipelines)
• Design, develop, document and implement Test Automation solutions
• Collaborate with team members to improve the company’s engineering tools
• Develop and maintain design and troubleshooting documentation
• Perform unit testing
• Troubleshooting, support, problem solving and analysis for users
• Compliance with procedures and processes

Education Required:

• N. Diploma or B-Tech / degree in Information Technology / Computer Science / Engineering degree
• ISTQB certification

Experience Required:

• 5 to 8 years formal testing experience
• Test Automation Engineering experience

Essential Competencies:

• Software testing experience
• Implementing and integrating code deployment tools (e.g. Puppet, Ansible, Chef, etc.)
• Deployment Tools (eg. Jenkins, TeamCity, etc.)
• Integration with code repositories (eg GitLAB, GitHUB, BitBucket, etc.)
• Proficient in scripting and scripting languages (e.g. Python, etc.)
• Knowledge and implementation of branching and merging strategies (Git Flow, Trunk-based development, etc.)
• Expertise in software development methodologies (Agile, Waterfall)
• SQL
• Self-starter
• High attention to detail and accuracy
• Deadline driven, able to work in pressurised environment
• Compliance with procedures and processes
• Must be able to work well as part of a team and independently
• Good analysis skills; Good problem-solving skills
• Must have a drive for helping peers
• Must have a positive and professional attitude
• Excellent communication skills

Experience in one or more of the following:

• Python and/or Java (or a similar language)
• J-Meter (or any other Performance testing tools)
• SOAPUI (or any API testing tool)
• Selenium (or any Front-end testing tool)
• J-unit (or any unit testing tool)

Advantageous Competencies:

• Experience in telecommunications industry
• DevOps, CI/CD exposure
• Cloud exposure (Amazon, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
• Container deployment, scaling, management, etc. (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, etc.)