QA Engineer 2

Job description

Job Description
Test Strategy:

Participate in specification and architecture reviews, including customer specification reviews when applicable, and provide feedback based on experience, highlighting any potential impacts, risks, issues, or gaps.

Define the test strategy and test plan, including both functional and non-functional test cases, ensuring traceability with specifications and customer requirements.

Ensure compliance of the test strategy with CI/CD guidelines, Green IT guidelines, and all quality guidelines (SDL, STDL), as well as QA best practices and industry standards (ISTQB).

Test Expertise:

Design test cases and write test scripts.

Prepare the test environment, test data, and execute test cases.

Provide sign-off (go/no-go) on tested features based on defined exit criteria.

Continuously assess the need to add, update, or remove test cases in the existing regression and CI/CD pipeline when new product features are delivered and based on metrics (e.g., stabilization, deletion of flaky tests).

As part of maintenance activities, investigate PTRs, test the fixes, and enrich test suites accordingly.

Test Automation:

Create and maintain the automation framework and develop automation scripts using Java & Selenium / Groovy scripts and Typescript/Python.

Conduct peer reviews on the deliveries of automated scripts from peers to ensure they adhere to defined quality standards.

Participate in the delivery sessions of new releases of Sell Connect, with a strong focus on testability in the ecosystem environment of a set of customers.

Interface with Application Development and Product Management teams to maintain and extend functional knowledge in order to build relevant scenarios and maintain them.

Influence the functional teams on test coverage to produce the right business scenarios.

Grow in the functional area, like a Travel Agent.

Provide clear reports on whether to load the product evolution into production.

Develop strong interactions with functional teams spread worldwide.

Ensure execution and analysis of tests and give final approval for a new release to production.

Run automated campaigns daily to assess the health of the application, identify defects, and follow up with the development team until closure.

Defect Management:

Open defects for software or documentation, assign relevant levels of severity based on the importance of the issue, and provide relevant investigation and information to fix defects.

Check defect fixes and give go/no-go for the load of production defects.

DevOps:

Proactively maintain all Linux infrastructure technology to ensure 24x7 uptime service for the operating system platform.

Engage in problem-solving and troubleshooting.

React quickly to feedback to continuously improve processes.

Support migration to the cloud.

Engineer RedHat Linux Systems Administration-related solutions for various project and operational needs.

Conduct fault finding, analysis, and logging information for reporting performance exceptions.

Manage, coordinate, and implement software upgrades, patches, and hotfixes on servers, workstations, and network hardware.

Build and maintain operational tools for deployment, monitoring, and analysis of public cloud infrastructure and systems.

Possess good knowledge of Docker, Containers, and Kubernetes.

Provision, configure, and maintain public cloud infrastructure defined as code.

Understand CI/CD solutions and implement them.

Engage in system troubleshooting and problem-solving across platform and application domains.

Tools and Technology:

Selenium & Java
Geb & Spock (BDD Framework) with Groovy Scripting language
Playwright / Typescript

Jenkins, CI/CD
Octane/ALM
Knowledge/experience in the travel domain is a plus
Postman/SOAP UI/Python/Webservice is a plus
DevOps