Test Engineer

Position Title: Engineer - Test

Position Summary:

As a member of the engineering team, you will deliver robust and efficient test engineering practice as directed by business constraints while respecting controls. As the test engineer, you are expected to:

• Automation of Functional and User testing while meeting quality criteria and project constraints
• Automation using both GUI and API's as provided by the applications
• Automation of application configurations using DB scripts and any other scripting tools
• Automation using various tools like selenium etc.
• Define test cases for automation using test engineering techniques like defining corner test cases etc
• Define and execute functional test cases (and test plan, test strategy)
• Explore and try different methods to improve productivity and efficiency of the team
• Influence the direction of the overall architecture especially on quality and testing
• Understand the public and private cloud concepts especially compute, network, storage and data
• Critical attention to detail about quality, code, troubleshooting, efficiency and design
• Develop and maintain standards of software & system test automation, components, and release management
• Identify and reduce technical debt
• Be able to communicate effectively - verbal and written
• Be able to work alone or with others as needs dictate
• Take ownership of all assigned task and challenges
• Be proactive in promoting 'Best Practices'
• Be available for out of hours support as required

Area (Major Responsibility)

1. Functional and automated testing

Activities Completed

• Define and execute new test scenarios
• Write code for automated test cases
• Review code for automated test cases
• Accelerate timelines while balancing quality and simplicity
• Execute and improve on controls and testing practice

Measure of Success

• Test & Code quality reviews
• Speed to market / test execution
• Effectiveness of Tests
• Bugs raised and fixed
• Cost efficiency of technologies adopted
• Met targets for delivery timelines and budgets

2.Collaboration

Activities Completed

• Help other engineers
• Share knowledge on codebase
• Ensure compliance with ING standard

Measure of Success

• Effectiveness of development team
• Stakeholder feedback

3. Continuous Improvement

Activities Completed

• Build and deployment automation
• Process improvements
• Best practices

Measure of Success

• Lesser manual tasks
• Speed of deployments

Major Challenges

• Nurturing a strong engineering culture and influencing Test practice across engineering practice
• Estimating and delivering to estimates
• Adhering to standards and guidelines

Decision Making/ Delegating Authority

• Design and implementation of test automation and testing practice
• Assessment of work involved
• Test & Code quality and completeness
• Platform implementation quality and completeness
• Service reliability, restoration method and problem resolution

Knowledge and Skill Requirement

Demonstrable deep and applied knowledge of the following:

• Minimum of 5 years of work experience in software testing.
• Excellent knowledge in testing skills (Functional testing, design test plan and test strategy, writing test cases, executing test cases, Bug Life cycle )
• Good level in SQL/database
• Excellent Java programming and debugging skills is an advantage
• Basic knowledge of Oracle, Linux, Jenkins, GIT, REST
• Knowledge on Build Management Tool
• Basic knowledge or willing to learn in designing and developing Test automation frameworks
• Developing automated UI tests using Selenium or any automation tool
• Basic knowledge or willing to learn in managing and executing tests using TestNG
• Experience in an Agile/Scrum/Dev/Ops team
• Experience with E2E testing
• Good Communication Skill and Team Player