QA Lead

Location: Madrid, Spain

Thales people architect identity management and data protection solutions at the heart of digital security. Business and governments rely on us to bring trust to the billions of digital interactions they have with people. Our technologies and services help banks exchange funds, people cross borders, energy become smarter and much more. More than 30,000 organizations already rely on us to verify the identities of people and things, grant access to digital services, analyze vast quantities of information and encrypt data to make the connected world more secure.

Thales in Spain is a leader in technological solutions applied to Defence, Aeronautics, Security, Transportation and Space and, furthermore, is a global centre for excellence in Space, Security of Critical Infrastructures and Transportation. With a turnover of €320 million and a staff of 1,200, it exports approximately 40% of its total production principally to the Middle East, North Africa and Latin America.

Thales Cybersecurity & Digital Identity is a global leader in digital security, bringing trust to an increasingly connected world. We design and deliver a wide range of products, software and services based on two core technologies: digital identification and data protection.

With the massive surge of electronic travel documents and national eID cards, Thales Digital & Security global business unit is supporting border agencies,
government authorities and airports to exploit technology convergence to gain consistent, comprehensive border, visa management and document verification worldwide that will:

• Deliver seamless travel with border control applications.
• Offer convenience for travelers for fast and secure border crossing.
• Improve border intelligence for detection and prevention, including some of the most disruptive new technologies like biometrics, machine learning, or micro services.

If you’re looking for new opportunities, ready to join a high-skilled multicultural team, willing to travel (up to 20% of your time on certain peaks), we are now seeking a QA Lead to join our team in Madrid.

A week in the life of a QA Lead:

·        You validate the products and components (applications, libraries, system and solutions; either purely software or combining software and hardware) and integration in customer environment.

·        You participate in the definition of the validation and integration strategy

·        You participate in the acceptance test plan writing and testing

·        You will cooperate with developers in order to reproduce, identify and isolate the issues

·        You prepare training material for administration and operation of the solution, provide training material to trainers or end-users
 

To succeed at this job, you must have experience with:

·        Test management and bug reporting in JIRA

·        Executing testing campaign

·        Non-functional testing types (performance, load, stress, etc.) using tools like JMeter, Postman or SOAP UI

·        Experience with Server backend technologies: Application servers, Databases and Web Services SOAP/REST

·        You must be fluent in English (B2+) and Spanish.

·        At least 3 years of experience in QA Testing
 

Added Value:

·        Testing experience with ATDD or BDD.

·        Integration with Jenkins

·        Scripting language for automatic tests (e.g., Python).

·        Testing with Docker envirnoments

·        ELK stack (Kibana, Elasticsearch y Logstash) concepts and if posible experience in the validation

·        Deployment and testing in an Applications server (JBoss/wildfly, WebSphere, GlassFish…)

·        Good knowledge of SQL and Database servers (at least one among Oracle, SQL Server or Maria DB).

What do we offer?

• Flexible working hours.
• Intensive working days on Fridays and during August.
• Remote-friendly - 1/2 days a week working from home.
• Restaurant allowance and social benefits (health insurance, kindergarten).
• Free coffee on-site!

Thales is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, protected veteran status, medical condition or disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.   

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working. Great journeys start here, apply now!