Principal QA Engineer – Chennai

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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.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the Product Quality of Initiatives and Major Releases.
• Understand requirements and scope
• Identify inconsistencies and gaps in requirements and communicate with Product Owner
• Lead a team as a Quality Assurance Engineer that will execute projects from beginning to end, including working with product management, gathering requirements, brainstorming solutions, testing final applications
• Delegate tasks to team members matching their individual experience to the task to promote engagement, learning and probability of success.
• Define Test Plan, Test execution strategy and Release plan
• Identify risks and prepare action plan to mitigate risks
• Address and monitor acceptable test coverage for features and services
• 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 non-functional 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.

• 2 years of technical leadership experience with 5+ years of QA automation experience
• Any Master's or Bachelor's in Software Engineering or related discipline
• Strong understanding of Software Quality Assurance (SQA) concepts and practices to continually assess the risks and quality of products and releases.
• 2+ years of experience with web-application testing
• Experience with testing types such as Regression Testing, System Testing, Integration Testing, Functional Testing, Usability Testing
• Experience with cross browser testing
• Experience with Object-Oriented design and development
• Hands on experience in test automation tools like Selenium or Protractor
• Experience with Test Management tool and Bug tracking tool
• Ability to create Requirement based Use Cases / test cases and can leverage tools to execute those test cases to prove functionality meets business requirements.

• Enjoy a flexible and rewarding work environment with peer-to-peer recognition platforms. 
• Recharge and revitalize with help of wellness plans made for you and your family. 
• Plan your future with financial wellness tools. 
• Stay relevant and upskill yourself with career development opportunities. 

About NIQ

NIQ, the world’s leading consumer intelligence company, reveals new pathways to growth for retailers and consumer goods manufacturers. With operations in more than 100 countries, NIQ delivers the most complete and clear understanding of consumer buying behavior through an advanced business intelligence platform with integrated predictive analytics. NIQ delivers the Full View. 

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