Software Quality Engineer

Securing the Future with AvePoint

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About the role:

As a Quality Engineer, you have the opportunity to accelerate the delivery and to improve the quality of the software we build. You will be responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining the product testing coverage from development to production environments. You will be part of an Engineering team that is working on problems in a number of areas, including design, plan, execute acceptance criteria define in user stories, detecting security vulnerability or application performance issues and conduct extensive exploratory testing to reduce the potential risks will be encountered by end users. Your focus is developing automated test scripts rather than finding bugs. Your job is to accelerate product development by helping developers help themselves.

You will typically work in small, nimble teams that collaborate on common problems across projects and across focus areas. As a result, you will have exposure to a broader set of problems, which allows for fast career growth and proximity to abundant technical problems.

GDS Quality Engineers are focused on the hardest, most interesting aspects of delivering high quality software. For someone who wants to learn and grow as an engineer, having access to all of cutting edge technologies and platform, along with the vast compute infrastructure provides a unique opportunity.

Key responsibilities: 

• Build advanced automated test suites to exercise our world-class applications.
• Work with the development and other engineering teams to automate testing, applying riskbased strategy.
• Conduct static and dynamic application security testing (SAST) and (DAST).
• Conduct load and performance testing to identify application bottleneck.
• Conduct research on emerging technologies related to application quality.
• Analyse and decompose complicated software systems and design a strategy to test these systems.
• Work with Product Owner and Business Analyst to craft out user story acceptance criteria.
• Conduct application performance and security testing to ensure we have a robust and secured system in place.
• Implement and maintain regression test suite in QA nightly build.
• Actively refine smoke test suite in Development CI environment.
• Lead system integration testing with other system owners.
• Manage user acceptance testing/alpha testing and defect life cycle.
• Drive continuous improvement in Agile testing practices and tools.
• Ability to interpret the application source code and experience of using different cloud providers services such as AWS, AZURE and GCP

The ideal candidate has:

• Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Computer or Electronics Engineering, Information Technology or related disciplines.
• Min 5 years experience in one or more of the followings:
  • Application exploratory testing and regression test automation
  • Application performance testing
  • Application security testing
• Strong analytical skills.
• Meticulous attention to details.
• Good interpersonal skills such as tactfulness.
• Good presentation and listening skills.
• Experience in agile development environment will be an added advantage.
• Experience with open-source automated testing framework like Playwright, Cypress, Robot Framework, Cucumber, Appium, Selenium or enterprise level testing tools (Tricentis QTest/TOSCA, Micro Focus UFT or Micro Focus ALM/Quality Center) will be an added advantage.
• Experience with open-source performance testing tools like K6, JMeter, Locust or enterprise level testing tools (Micro Focus LoadRunner) will be an added advantage.
• Experience with open-source security testing tools like ZAP, Burp Suite, SQL Map, Clair, etc or enterprise level security tools (Mirco Focus Fortify On Demand, Prisma Cloud, Veracode, Nessus or CheckMarx) will be an added advantage.
• Experience to setup the pipeline with CICD tools, such as GitLab, Bamboo and etc.
• Certified Software Testing Professional and/or Certified Software Quality Analyst and/or CREST/OSCP certification will be an added advantage

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