QA Engineer

Job Description The Opportunity Come join our highly energetic team of software engineers to create the next generation decisioning platform for FICO's feature management capabilities. As a QA Engineer, you will be part of an expanding and highly valued software development team which is developing cutting edge analytic software for high profile customers across a wide variety of industries using the latest technologies and software development methodologies - Director, Software Engineering What You'll Contribute - Develop test plan and test strategy meeting functional requirements, user stories and user acceptance criteria. - Participate in release planning and product roll-out. - Perform hands-on manual and automated testing (both black and grey box). Execute application, usability, functional, regression and performance testing for backend business applications written in C++ and Java and applications in a client/server environment. - Review, author and maintain flexible and maintainable automated test scripts to support QA automation. - Identify and analyze issues, bugs, defects, and other problems, particularly when problems recur in multiple products; recommend and facilitates solutions to these issues. - Communicate product readiness, generation of quality metrics, level of quality, and results to Quality Assurance Management and the project team. - Identify gaps in the quality assurance and testing processes, generate solutions, and actively address them for continuous improvement. What We're Seeking - Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Applications Systems Design, or other related field of study. - 7+ years of overall experience. - Expertise in the software quality assurance industry with strong QA process knowledge. - Excellent testing skills and experience with commercial software development processes, SaaS or ASP (Application Service Provider) for browser-based applications, client/server application and database driven applications on Unix/Linux, Windows. - Ability to develop and implement test automation strategies. - Collaborate with development and Product management team for current and future releases. - Ability to explore new/latest testing tools as per the product requirement. - Should have hands on experience in migration, upgrade, integration, end to end testing - Should have hands on experience in building automation framework for GUI and API/Webservices. - Should have good knowledge and experience in Agile methodology and related processes. - Proficiency with test management tools like qTest, Allure, JIRA, Quality Center. - Proficiency in QA concepts and methodologies. - Proficiency in C++ , Python is a must. - Should have basic knowledge of Java 17+. - Knowledge of UI automation tools like Selenium, Playwright, Cypress (or any other tool which use Java). - Exposure to Docker and Kubernetes is a plus. - Proficiency in GitHub/SVN. Experience with CI/CD tools knowledge for e.g. Github Actions, Jenkins. - Good to have knowledge of performance tools like Apache Jmeter, Load, Soak, Stress, Spike etc. - Strong with RDBMS and NoSQL skills with the ability to generate complex queries, for database systems like Oracle, MongoDB or the likes. - Should have knowledge and experience for working in Unix. Our Offer to You - An inclusive culture strongly reflecting our core values: Act Like an Owner, Delight Our Customers and Earn the Respect of Others. - The opportunity to make an impact and develop professionally by leveraging your unique strengths and participating in valuable learning experiences. - Highly competitive compensation, benefits and rewards programs that encourage you to bring your best every day and be recognized for doing so. - An engaging, people-first work environment offering work/life balance, employee resource groups, and social events to promote interaction and camaraderie.