Senior QA Automation Engineer

  • Full-time
  • Career Site Team: Technology and Engineering

Job Description

Senior QA Automation Engineer – Pune

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About the job

NielsenIQ BASES is the global leader and gold-standard for helping companies in the consumer goods industries to realize their growth strategies. BASES analytical SaaS products provide support to clients to create and evolve new innovations, optimize impactful advertising and messaging aligned with the widening range of consumer influences, build compelling package designs and help prioritize and plan product launches. Having decades of successful leadership across fast moving consumer goods, BASES is expanding into growth verticals including Restaurants, Tech, Household Durables, Consumer Electronics, and Gaming.

Rationale

With best-in-class research, success prediction and volumetric forecasting models, NielsenIQ BASES is at the core of our clients' new product ideas, messaging, packaging and product launch strategies. This role will require the individual to lead the quality effort as we continue to add, enhance and scale the BASES analytical platform. In BASES, you can. Be curious. Be collaborative. Be forward thinking.

Responsibilities

  • Responsible for the Product Quality of Major features & Minor Releases.
  • Understand requirements and scope
  • Identify inconsistencies and gaps in requirements and communicate with Product Owner
  • Serve as a Quality Assurance Engineer on teams that will execute projects from beginning to end, including working with product management, gathering requirements, brainstorming solutions, testing final applications
  • Maintain knowledge of the architecture of the platform and product features
  • Maintain complete functional knowledge of the product
  • Create and execute manual functional test cases
  • Identify test cases for automation & discuss most efficient type of automation for identified cases
  • Design, Create and Execute automated functional test cases
  • Design, Create and Execute automated nonfunctional test cases (performance, Resiliency, Guardrails, Backwards compatibility)
  • Log defects and co-ordinate with developers to resolve them
  • Setup and maintain test data
  • Provide end-user perspective for feature under test
  • Work closely with other teams for cross functional requirements and collaboration
  • Participate in design and code reviews
  • Address areas of improvements in the automation framework and workflows
  • Identify and implement QA processes in support of providing quality products.
  • Educate new hires and team members on application, tools, technologies, processes
  • Follow community best practices and team SDLC guidelines

Qualifications

  • 5 to 8 years of QA automation experience
  • MS/BS in Software Engineering or related discipline

Technical Skills

  • Hands on experience in test automation tools like Selenium or Protractor
  • Knowledge in at least one programming language or scripting languages
  • Experience with Object-Oriented design and development
  • Strong test validation and test debugging skills
  • Strong understanding of Software Quality Assurance (SQA) concepts and practices to continually assess the risks and quality of products and releases.
  • Experience with Web-application/Cross browser testing
  • Experience of Database testing
  • Experience working with Cloud based applications is nice to have
  • Experience working in onshore-offshore model
  • Familiarity working in Agile-Scrum environment and software production release process
  • Excellent interpersonal skills, excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Passion for learning new technologies

 

Additional Information

About NielsenIQ

NielsenIQ is a global measurement and data analytics company providing the most complete and trusted view of consumers and markets in 90 countries covering 90% of the world’s population. Focusing on consumer-packaged goods manufacturers and FMCG and retailers, we enable customers to defy what’s possible. How? We combine unparalleled datasets, pioneering technology, and the industry’s top talent to create insights that unlock innovation. Join us and change the landscape.

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