Senior Quality Engineer (CR-COL)

  • Full-time

Company Description

Publicis Global Delivery is the talent powerhouse of Publicis Groupe, the largest global communications group. We make sure to hire, boost and develop the best people worldwide to deliver outstanding work for the most prominent clients within the Groupe. 

In LATAM, we are over 1,700 passionate employees that love to push boundaries and drive innovative solutions. If you are a risk-taker and love to develop intrepid ideas, PGD is the place for you. 

We Move People, and People Move Us!

Job Description

The Senior Quality Engineer (SQE) is our Senior role within the team. A SQE will be responsible of supporting a range of quality assurance tasks by leveraging strong technical skills to collaborate into QA process improvement, using methods as test plans control, assisting on complex manual or automation tests and create or maintaining software testing automation solutions.

Key Functional Responsibilities:

  • Create manual test scenarios for automation test cases, identifying and prioritizing the ones who are most suitable for automation testing to achieve the best coverage.
  • Sending status reports informing about status of the testing process, basic metrics, results of tests and raising relevant priority issues and risks.
  • Create level of effort LOE estimates.
  • Ensure content and structure of testing artifacts is documented and maintained using the best practices for quality assurance automation solutions.
  • Be receptive on learning about new technologies and self-driven to stay on top of the QA trending, to apply them on projects or furtherly participate in initiatives as mentoring and knowledge transfer sessions with the team.
  • Research and recommend the most effective technologies, approaches, and strategies for QA Automation implementation across projects.
  • Prioritize necessary tasks and tests for successful testing executions.
  • Identify and inform effectively about potential quality issues and risks on projects.
  • Provide mentoring and guidance for team members.

Management Responsibilities:

  • Respond to conflicts with flexibility, communicating assertively and suggesting improvements
  • Assist lead manager in the creation of documentation and or ramp up efforts
  • Assist manager lead with resource allocation, LOE estimations & risk assessments
  • Provide technical support for resources, guiding process improvement initiatives and adherence to best practices
  • Provide prompt follow up and status reports
  • Actively participate in the craft initiatives such as creating presenting workshops, participating in the recruiting process, and making recommendations also being part of the mentorship programs, identify training needs in the team and works with craft leader to provide the required training either by coordinating or presenting it
  • Identify processes improvements within the project or the craft and suggest and implement enhancements.
  • Establish positive, trust based relationships with Offshore and Onshore team members
  • Act like the Offshore and Onshore team members and peers as an expert in their field
  • Apply the best testing techniques and or best practices constantly during projects
  • Lead knowledge transfer, mentoring and ramp up session of new team members of the team, and be involve in management activities
  • Participate in the Performance program as a Performance manager
  • Support the discovery, design, recommendation, development, implementation, and on going support of client process workflows

Qualifications

  • English C1
  • Bachelor's Degree (i.e. BA, BS, Software Engineering or a related degree)
  • 5+ years of related QA Automation experience
  • 1+ years of experience leading teams
  • Strong Analytical and problem solving oriented skills
  • Ability to be assertive in communication
  • Agile methodologies
  • Back End Technologies
  • Front End Technologies
  • Functional Testing
  • Test Case Creation and Execution
  • Bugs Creation
  • Web Services
  • Ticketing & Tracking Systems
  • Database Infrastructure & Queries
  • API Testing

Good to have skills/knowledge:

  • ISTQB Foundation or related certification
  • Desirable knowledge on JavaScript
  • Desirable experience with test case management tools as Zephyr, Spira test or Xray

Additional Information

  • Access to Medical Plan provided by PGD.
  • Employee engagement activities and events
  • WFH
  • Technical trainings, soft skills development, technical certifications, access to online libraries and e-learning platforms 
  • Find your path Program.
  • You will have a coach that will support and help you grow.
  • And more!
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