Senior Quality Engineer

We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Quality Engineer with more than 10 years of experience to join our Quality Engineering (QE) team and play a critical role in implementing changes that advance the maturity of our projects. This hands-on position is ideal for an experienced quality engineering professional who excels in identifying improvement opportunities, implementing best practices, and driving measurable quality outcomes in a fast-paced environment. 

The ideal candidate will work closely with project teams to fill skill gaps, enhance processes, and leverage existing tools to achieve substantial quality improvements in the shortest time possible. This role requires a proactive problem solver with a passion for innovation and a strong ability to collaborate with diverse teams. Plays an essential role in the rollout of QE initiatives (e.g., test automation, CI/CD implementation). Provides guidance to delivery teams in alignment with the QE transformation. Actively involved in hands-on coding activities pertaining to QE efforts.

Hands-On Quality Engineering:  Assess current quality practices and identify areas for immediate and long-term improvement.  Implement process changes, testing strategies, and automation solutions aligned with project goals.  Create foundation / framework for test automation.  Training and Enablement:  Address skill gaps within teams by delivering targeted training and mentorship on tools, techniques, and processes.  Empower teams to adopt and sustain quality best practices.  Tool Utilization and Optimization:  Evaluate and optimize the use of existing tools within the organization to maximize their effectiveness.  Introduce enhancements and integrate solutions that align with organizational constraints and objectives.  Collaboration and Alignment:  Partner with project teams, developers, and stakeholders to ensure alignment with quality goals.  Act as a liaison between technical teams and leadership to provide insights on quality initiatives.  Rapid Quality Improvement:  Focus on achieving the largest quality improvements in the shortest timeframes by prioritizing impactful changes.  Best Practices and Standards:  Research and implement industry best practices to elevate the organization's quality engineering capabilities.  Standardize processes to create repeatable and scalable solutions across projects. 

Required Experience

• 13 Years in either a DevOps, Apps Development, or Quality Engineer overall experience

• Experience at a complex global company

• Experience with the rollout of QE initiatives (e.g., test automation, CI/CD implementation) is needed

• Primary Skills / Experience : Java + Spring Boot, Python, Selenium, Cucumber, DB/SQL, Git, CI/CD, BDD/TDD, Test Data Management, Microservices, Containerization, Cloud, Linux, Observability platforms.

• Provides automation expertise, training and coaching to team members.

• Determines range and depth of activities required for developing or customizing complex test automation frameworks, researching and onboarding automation tools for IT.

• Deliver a robust automation framework built upon established and proven open source or commercial tools to support Agile/Scrum development, DevOps and CI/CD.

• Keep current with advances in automation methodologies and tools.

• Research, evaluation, and deployment of new test tools.

• Trains teams to implement expanded automation coverage by adding automated environment validation, smoke and functional test scripts to CI/CD pipeline.

• Ability to assess functional and technical gaps in designs.

• Support continuous improvement processes, analyzing problems and recommending actions for effective resolution.

• Ability to adapt to a fast paced, continually changing business and work environment while managing multiple priorities.

• The candidate must be able to work with minimal supervision, be self-sufficient, define own objectives, and promote best practices within the organization.

• The candidate must be able to provide technical solutions to a diverse range of difficult problems

Education

Bachelor's degree in information systems or computer science or work equivalent

Job Family Group:

Technology

Job Family:

Systems & Engineering

Time Type:

Full time

Most Relevant Skills

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