Job Description
As a Quality Assurance Analyst, you will be involved throughout the development lifecycle of Infor Birst development team with responsibility in the quality assurance of software development and deployment with emphasis on development and implementation of test automation. You'll be involved in the creation of business requirements inputting the test scripts and test scenarios to ensure developers understand the business requirements so that they can be effectively tested.
You will be working closely with developers as they develop code to ensure requirements are being met and to the correct quality, and you will conduct automated (and manual tests where necessary) to ensure the software created is fit for purpose. During testing you will be thinking outside of the box to understand the various scenarios and configurations that customers use to ensure customer quality is maintained and through doing so drive regression testing across the products. You will be responsible for defining and driving innovative automated testing strategies and toolsets into our overall development processes that support and enhance the current Quality Assurance processes within Birst.
We are seeking exceptional QA automation engineers to join our team in Ahmedabad, India to design and execute test suites for our Business Intelligence and Analytics products. In addition to regular quality assurance activities, automating tests using common automation frameworks such as TestNg and Selenium, is a requirement. So, if the thought of automation is exciting and if you can do most of the following then youre going to fit right in with our exciting team here.
This is not a remote work position. Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic, our office is closed until further notice. Infor Birst employees are currently working remotely but will be required to resume in-office attendance at our Ahmedabad office once it is safe to do so.
A Day in The Life Typically Includes:
* Work as part of cross functional, passionate agile development teams to ensure quality is driven into the heart of the development process from requirements definition through to delivery of highly concurrent systems
* Evangelize new testing methodologies, best practices and tools with goals to continuously improve test coverage through automation
* Proactively bringing issues and problems to the attention of the team, generating, proposing and implementing innovative solutions to solve them
* Be meticulous about documentation and maintaining test cases and test results
* Designing, developing and supporting frameworks for test infrastructure and providing automation expertise
* Research, recommend and implement tools as needed with the goal of increasing automation
* Ensure that all tests are executed and give regular feedback to the team lead on the status of quality
* Work closely with the Product Management and Development Teams
* Be a creative thinker who can quickly identify and test for functional edge cases outside of expected functionality workflow
* Test backend API's (REST and SOAP) and front-end UI applications
* Willingness to work across time zones to interact with different stakeholders located across US west coast, Europe and India
What You Will Need:
* Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
* 2+ years of experience as hands on Software QA/automation Engineer
* Strong programming/scripting ability in any language, preferably Java
* Thorough understanding of SDLC, specifically automated QA processes in agile development environments
* Experience in writing, executing and monitoring automated test suites using a variety of technologies including, but not limited to, Selenium, Groovy, Junit, TestNg, SoapUI, RESTful Client
* Proficient with bug tracking and test management toolsets to support development processes
* Strong working knowledge of testing fundamentals such as TDD & BDD
* Expertise testing RESTful, SOAP web services in SOA system
* Working knowledge of Database concepts
* Demonstrated knowledge of CI/CD tools to integrate the Automation scripts
* Strong experience in testing ETL, BI and SaaS solutions is advantage and nice to have but not must
* A high degree of self-motivation and flexibility with the ability to organize and prioritize multiple tasks
* The ability to interact creatively and achieve results in a fast-moving, dynamic small company environment
* Excellent communication and teamwork skills
What Will Put You Ahead
* Domain knowledge in Business Intelligence or Data Analytics
* Prior experience working with systems such as ActiveMQ, MongoDB, ElasticSearch and nginx
* Prior experience with security protocols such as OAuth and SAML and related frameworks
* Working knowledge of virtualization and Infrastructure as Service solutions such as Amazon Web Services
* Building test infrastructures using containerization technologies such as Docker and working within continuous delivery / continuous release pipeline processes
* ISTQB, CSQA or CSTE certified
About Infor
Infor is a global leader in business cloud software products for companies in industry specific markets. Infor builds complete industry suites in the cloud and efficiently deploys technology that puts the user experience first, leverages data science, and integrates easily into existing systems. Over 60,000 organizations worldwide rely on Infor to help overcome market disruptions and achieve business-wide digital transformation.
For more information visit www.infor.com
Our Values
At Infor, we strive for an environment that is founded on a business philosophy called [1] Principle Based Management (PBM) and eight Guiding Principles: integrity, stewardship & compliance, transformation, principled entrepreneurship, knowledge, humility, respect, self-actualization. Increasing diversity is important to reflect our markets, customers, partners, and communities we serve in now and in the future.
We have a relentless commitment to a culture based on PBM. Informed by the principles that allow a free and open society to flourish, PBM prepares individuals to innovate, improve, and transform while fostering a healthy, growing organization that creates long-term value for its clients and supporters and fulfillment for its employees.
Infor is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment. Infor does not discriminate against candidates or employees because of their sex, race, gender identity, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, veteran status, or any other protected status under the law.
At Infor we value your privacy thats why we created a policy that you can read [2] here.
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2. https://www.infor.com/about/privacy
