Quality Engineer Job in Thoughtfocus

Job Description The Software Engineer (Quality) will play a key hands-on development role in building and growing automation frameworks.. You will also own entire lifecycle (design, document, develop, maintain, publish, and run) of automated test development, configuration & related automated deployment pipelines within assigned agile team. This is an ideal opportunity for someone who is passionate about releasing high quality, customer experience, SaaS products in a highly scalable, reliable, and secure manner, leveraging agile test driven development practices. We are looking for a strong business and technical problem solver, with understanding of quality engineering within the SDLC life cycle To be successful you will need: The Software Engineer (Quality) will have a broad set of responsibilities including the following: Drive a strong sense of ownership, accountability, and pride in the entire full stack agile team for the overall quality of the product. Work on the total lifecycle of application and infrastructure services from inception to operations and monitoring(all aspects of automation in DevOps delivery pipeline. Develop and maintain automated build, testing and deployment scripts and configurations that serve as frameworks and solutions for agile Setting up, maintaining, and operating test automation frameworks supporting multiple application platforms, such as Databases, Web, Mobile, APIs/Microservices (CNCF) Develops test system configurations, test data as code and automated functional and non-functional (load/performance) testing scripts. Performs test executions and writes test scripts for complex integrated systems supporting end-end verification Defines and manages software test environments as configurations/code supporting various architectures. Write well-designed, readable, maintainable testing code, patterns and frameworks supporting internal services with focus to increase automated test coverage of code. Work with application and infrastructure teams to analyze current manual processes and determine options to Work closely and collaboratively with in full stack agile engineering team to establish and automate the necessary quality standards, requirements with a strong bias to reduce manual testing effort and continuously increasing confidence in software releases. Play a supporting role in planning, scoping, estimating, and validating prioritized testing requirements for all on-going feature development in the scrum Work closely with teams to troubleshoot and resolve application and infrastructure Build trusting relationships and collaborate within and across all internal teams. Participate in code reviews to maintain code quality and distribute knowledge. Adhere to testing standards, best practices, and operational procedures for releases. Ensure application releases occur regularly, timely and with high quality. Encourage a highly communicative culture that ensures open, transparent, and consistent exchange with key stakeholders. Keep up to date on industry trends, new tools, and technologies with respect to Continuous Delivery. Learn new tools and scripting languages as Perform periodic on-call support for after-hours deployment/maintenance windows. Coach, mentor and help peers. Report progress on work items as it happens, via work item notes, and as requested. Skills Skillsets we are looking for: Bachelor s degree in Computer Science Engineering or, Business Information Systems Proficient in C#, .Net, T-SQL 3+ years of hands-on technical experience in quality engineering practices, test automation (unit, API testing, acceptance testing, performance testing)supporting continuous releases. 3-5+years of experience with technologies and tools such as Jira, Jfrog Artifactory, Jenkins/Azure DevOps, Terraform, InSpec, Selenium, Jmeter, NeoLoad, Postman, SOAPUI, Sonarqube, Docker, Cucumber, Specflow, Chai, Mocha, Kubernetes (AKS, GKE, EKS) Experience in agile software delivery practices like Scrum, Kanban etc. Prior experience in Specflow is required Detailed knowledge of software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle, including agile planning, coding standards, code reviews, source control, build and release processes, continuous deployment, and test suite development and maintenance. Expertise in manual and automated test planning and execution while building modern test frameworks and infrastructure iteratively. Expertise in data structures and programming language principles. Experience designing, coding, building, and testing software or systems. Experience with acceptance test-driven development (ATDD/BDD) and continuous integration patterns/solutions. Technical background in quality engineering tools supporting SaaS based products, such as modern web applications, APIs (Soap, Rest etc.), database and cloud infrastructure testing. Familiarity of software security best practices (OWASP Top 10) and implementing quality and security gates within software delivery. Experience with networking, storage, operating systems, databases (Windows and Linux). Experience with Microsoft Azure or similar cloud technology vendors such as AWS, GCP. Understanding of scalable, distributed systems using microservices and event-driven architecture. Understanding of transactional databases. Collaborate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Self-led, capable of working with little direction. Skilled communicator with a collaborative spirit.