Senior Quality Engineer

Job Description

Senior Quality Engineer, Developer ExperienceLocation: Pune, India Acquia is the open source digital experience company. We provide the worlds most ambitious brands with technology that allows them to embrace innovation and create customer moments that matter. At Acquia we believe in the power of community and collaboration - giving our customers the freedom to build tomorrow on their terms.Headquartered in Boston, we have been named as one of North America s fastest growing software companies as reported by Deloitte and Inc. Magazine, and have been rated a leader by the analyst community and named one of the Best Places to Work by the Boston Business Journal. We are Acquia. We are building for the future of the web, and we want you to be a part of it.Senior Quality EngineerAt Acquia, quality engineering drives the quality tool chain and process in an open and collaborative environment. To ensure that we have a repeatable process and systems to thoroughly test and uncover defects, quality engineering uses best of breed tools for automation and testing frameworks in conjunction with in-house tooling, infrastructure and services. Quality engineers are embedded in each agile development team to facilitate and lead the testing strategy, and test automation requirements for every iteration and release. The quality engineering team also regularly meets to review and improve overall testing processes, automation, innovations and best practices. Each quality engineer works both independently and as part of a product group, where developers write tests and the quality engineering team supports the testing infrastructure and automation. In addition, they provide guidance for best practices and develop testing systems for smoke testing, behavioral testing, stress testing, performance testing, as well as supporting quality metrics.The Senior Quality Engineer is a strong voice for quality that actively pursues quality improvements, writing code, developing new infrastructure and tests to support our fast paced, highly diversified development organization.Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership and support for a team of quality engineering, continuous integration, and performance engineers that are embedded within the development groups they support
• Work together with product managers, agile product owners, architects, tech leads and engineers to ensure the quality of our products
• Participate in technical discussions for products and test infrastructure
• Promote quality assurance programs, policies, processes and procedures to ensure that performance and quality of products conform to established standards
• Promote and execute Quality best practices, tools, and methodologies
• Lead multiple complex technical infrastructure projects as necessary
• Participate in planning/design phases of testing projects and recommend improvements
• Identify areas for improved testing efficiencies, test automation and implementation of automated test solutions
• Participate in team strategy and roadmap definition to expand test coverage by building appropriate tools, utilities, and automation that assist in functional testing
• Constantly evaluate the test automation strategy and approach to identify areas of improvement (i.e. test automation frameworks, coding standards, etc.)

Qualifications:

• 4-7 years experience in quality engineering including functional, system, integration and regression testing
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills in a modern web stack
• 3 years programming experience in any of the web languages (perl, php, python, ruby, Go) or equivalent
• Excellent project management skills
• Experience developing and deploying web applications (e.g. silex, rack, drupal)
• 3-5 Years experience in Scripting/Coding automation tests
• Experience with continuous integration and build tools (i.e. Jenkins, Travis)
• Demonstrate knowledge of accepted QA methodologies, encompassing all facets of Quality Assurance.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP) stack experience

Nice to have:

• Hands on experience with AWS/Azure/GCP/OpenStack
• Experience with Go scripting
• Familiarity with testing container orchestration and deployment pipelines
• Familiarity with open source software
• Linux OS system management experience
• Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, etc.
• Operational knowledge of Drupal or any content management system in a production setting
• Basic knowledge of kubernetes

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Keyskills :
quality assurancesystem managementquality controlsmoke testinginspectiontest coverageppapqualitycoding standardstest automationbuild toolsagile developmentweb applicationsstress testing