Software Test Engineer

• Company GfK
• No. of Openings 10+
• Salary Not Disclosed
• Work Type on-site

Job Description :

Job Description

Software testing processes

• Ability to review user stories to ensure that acceptance criteria stated are correct, unambiguous and verifiable
• Ability to work as an embedded tester in the context of a scrum team
• Ability to evaluate the complexity of user stories, contributing to estimates during sprint planning
• Ability to develop high quality, maintainable and performant test code
• Ability to ensure test execution is appropriately conducted by cross-functional scrum team members
• A good ability to judge when a proposed technical solution requires discussion and consensus within the cross-functional team because it may impact:
  • Security
  • Performance
  • Operability
  • Maintainability
• Good understanding of the software testing methodology and process of the development team and being able to fulfil the tasks and ceremonies required from software test engineers
• Good knowledge of Exploratory testing techniques, Rapid software testing and Session-based testing, testing heuristics
• Ability to triage issues found and report on progress
• Ability to plan, execute and validate tests across the full test spectrum (functional, non-functional, infosecurity, integration, regression, smoke, UAT and OAT)
• Ability to identify opportunities to improve the quality assurance processes and actively contribute to test automation initiatives

Software development tools

• The understanding and basic use of all elements of the software development toolchain (IDE, Issue tracker, document repository, SCM, CI server, etc.)
• A solid understanding of OOP development practices and with Java or similar
• The ability to write automated acceptance tests in at least one framework or tool
• The ability to integrate automated acceptance tests into CI/CD pipeline
• The ability to use the version control system the development team uses and understand and follow its basic concepts practices and guidelines and branching strategy in place

Technologies and standards

• Knowledgeable in BDD/TDD methodologies
• Familiarity and ability to work in an automated test approach and page object design / facade / singletons patterns
• Basic understanding of Micro-Services architecture
• Knowledgeable in automated API testing
• Acceptance Test Automation in Selenium Webdriver, Cucumber
• Familiarity and ability to work in CI tools like Jenkins and cloud infrastructure like AWS

Key Accountabilities

The key accountability of the software test engineer is to deliver product quality with the development team.

• Participate in "
• " - pair with the PO and Developer and create Acceptance Criteria for the user stories
• Review the acceptance criteria and identify the test scenarios
• Provide test estimates during sprint planning
• Create a pragmatic test plan to cover testing within all phases of software development
• Develop automated acceptance tests for the features
• Develop and implement integration, regression and system tests for the new features
• Create and maintain test data and test environment needed for testing
• Log defects and track them to closure
• Conduct exploratory testing as part of every sprint
• Develop automated tests for non-functional testing
• Collect quality metrics for the product and enhance the testing process for continuous improvement