Lead QA Engineer - Chennai - ADP Solutions - 5

Summary :

• Contribute to the design and architecture of software solutions, ensuring they are amenable to test
• Planning of tests, including the definition and management of suitable test data, and managing the trade-offs for thoroughness/completeness vs. development & maintenance effort on one hand and time to execute on the other.
• Reduce friction and latency in the development cycle through automation and immediate feedback; not only test, but also build, deployment, monitoring, etc.
• Writing great software to support agile software engineering practices (e.g., TDD, continuous integration, automated tests, etc.)
• Collaborating with product owners, stakeholders and potentially globally distributed teams
• Work cross-functional in an Agile environment
• Ensure that our applications can scale to match huge demand across the world. Sweat about milliseconds of response time and obsess over the next 1 percent of efficiency
• Excellent problem-solving, organizational and analytical skills.

Requirements :

• Masters / Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field with over 7 years experience.
• Knowledge of one of the following languages C#, Java, C , Ruby, Python
• Experience building and executing automated tests using Selenium
• Experience with xUnit type frameworks (JUnit, NUnit, etc.)
• At least 4 years of experience testing software and web applications in an agile environment
• Expert in automating UI tests with Selenium and Ruby
• Knowledge of JavaScript, CSS, Web Standards and experience testing REST based APIs
• Experience configuring Jenkins and extending it with custom plug-ins
• Understanding of enterprise level automation needs and solutions (parallelism, distribution, etc.)
• Familiarity with client side MVC frameworks
• Experience with at least one major server side web development stack, preferably ASP.NET
• Technical knowledge of the least one major RDBMS, preferably SQL Server
• Strong verbal communications, cross-group collaboration skills, analytical, structured and strategic thinking.
• 2 years of experience in team handling.