Senior QA Engineer

Description
Why Ness
We know that people are our greatest asset. Our staff's professionalism, innovation, teamwork, and dedication to excellence have helped us become one of the world's leading technology companies. It is these qualities that are vital to our continued success. As a Ness employee, you will be working on products and platforms for some of the most innovative software companies in the world.

You'll gain knowledge by working alongside other highly skilled professionals that will help accelerate your career progression.

You'll also benefit from an array of advantages like access to training and certifications, bonuses, and aids, socializing activities and attractive compensation.

Requirements And Responsibilities
We are seeking an inquisitive and talented Automation Test Engineer to join our Java team working on a new Synch application.

You will be responsible for building and enhancing the automation framework, designing and executing step definitions and feature files in accordance with the requirements. You will be expected to continuously contribute to the overall test strategy with ideas of tools and technologies.

You will be highly involved in team participation, working closely with your Scrum team to complete sprint work in the given timeframe.

What You'll Do

• Test planning and execution: create, enhance and maintain effective and automated test scenarios, ensuring adequate depth and breadth of test coverage
• Carry out exploratory manual testing (e.g. smoke testing, regression testing for both functional and non-functional features of the application)
• Understand the requirements from technical and business specifications
• Actively support agile development methods and best practices
• Use Jira to track defects and tasks
• Take part in meetings, provide estimates, assist in presenting issues and solutions
• Collaborate with other development team members in the planning and analysis phases of user stories during scrum sprints, and with the QA team in areas such as training and assistance
• Support the business test team in UAT

What You'll Bring
Required Skills:

• Minimum of 3 years of Software Testing experience within SDLC, preferably in an agile development environment
• Experience building and maintaining automated testing frameworks, such as Selenium WD, Cypress, Playwright or similar
• Experience using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, AWS Pipelines or similar for CI/CD
• Hands-on experience of test planning, execution and maintenance of test scenarios using the principles of the BDD process
• Knowledge of RDB and SQL for database interrogation
• Experience with Rest API automation
• Source control management ideally in Git
• Passion for continuous integration and automated testing
• Solid understanding of software testing concepts and methodologies
• Experience in non-functional testing, e.g. cross browser responsiveness and cross platform testing, performance, etc.
• Experience in defining functional and non-functional automated testing frameworks
• Understanding of risk identification and analysis
• Great communication skills
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Strong self-management skills and proactive attitude

Desirable:

• Knowledge of Jira, Confluence
• Experience in automation for mobile devices
• Working knowledge of testing AWS technology
• ISTQB qualifications

Not checking every single requirement?
If this role sounds good to you, even if you don't meet every single bullet point in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. For most of the candidates that applied, we found a role that was a very good fit with their skills.

Let's meet and you may just be the right candidate for one of our roles.

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