Senior Software QA Engineer

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Job Description

Blue Planet is looking for QA Engineers with the experience in the following areas:

Responsible for write manual and automation tests, framework creation and reporting for both positive and negative tests. Should have good communication skills and interpersonal skills.

Develops and/or executes implementation according to project plans and priorities.

Able to work independently and has good technical communication skills to collaborate in a team.

General Activities

Major activities involve:

• Ongoing communication with developers to clarify feature requirement and make sure all test scope is addressed in test plan and working on test execution
• Developing automation testing based on In-Sprint testing and E2E use cases
• Deep knowledge of containerization/virtualization and Kubernetes
• Good knowledge of popular CI/CD frameworks (preferably Jenkins, TeamCity)
• Having extensive experience in types of testing –Static, System, Functional, Regression, Smoke, Integration testing, Load testing through SDLC
• Coding E2E Automated tests for the Angular UI frontend with Protractor, Jasmine and Cucumber,
• Coding Rest API testing automation
• Coding of System testing with ansible, bash scripting
• Full regression execution and reporting
• Ability to do research and find the best and effective way of test automation implementation for required functionality
• Collaboration with stakeholders
• Work in a global team environment
• Attend status calls with stakeholders as needed
• Work closely with the product team

EXPECTATIONS

• Frontend testing frameworks/libraries: Protractor, Jasmine, Cucumber,
• Backend testing: Rest API testing automation tools, Postman/Newman, Jasmine
• Load testing: JMeter, Grafana + Prometheus
• Deployment models: Docker, Kubernetes
• Continuous Integration Tools: Jenkins, TeamCity, GitLab
• Environments: AWS, Azure, Google cloud, RedHat Openshift
• Version control system: Git, Bitbucket
• Builds: Maven, NPM, JVM, NodeJS
• Ticketing: Jira
• Documentation: Confluence, Gitlab
• Databases: PostgreSQL, Neo4j
• Test Management: TestRail
• Solid expertise in automated testing of distributed systems including mission critical ones
• Having experience in types of testing – Static, System, Functional, Regression, Smoke, Integration testing, Performance testing and Scalability testing
• Familiar with Agile In-sprint testing and waterfall testing
• Hands-on experience of CI/CD pipeline configuration and maintenance
• Solid operational and administrator experience with Unix operation systems
• Understanding Microservice solution architecture
• Hands-on experience in Cisco, Juniper, Ciena Switch/router product configuration via CLI, Netconf, TL1.

DESIRABLE

• Frontend programming/markup languages: Typescript/JavaScript, html, CSS, SVG
• Frontend development frameworks/libraries: Angular 2+, , , gulp
• Backend programming/markup languages: Java/J2EE
• Backend development frameworks/libraries: maven, Spring Data/Security/MVC
• App Server: Apache Tomcat
• DB: Neo4j (graph DB), PostgreSQL+TimescaleDB
• Other Skills: ElasticSearch, Kafka integration, SSO (LDAP, Reverse Proxy, OAuth2, SAML)
• System testing: Bash, Shell, Python, Ansible scripting
• Programming theory: algorithms and data structures, relational and graph database concepts, etc.
• Open to any new AI tooling to help team increase productivity
• Domain: Telecom, OSS, Inventory, NMS/EMS

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