Sr. Software Engineer-QA Python

Sr. Software Engineer-QA Python

Important Information 

Location: Hyderabad

Experience: 10+years 

Job Mode: Full-time

Work Mode: Hybrid/Remote               

Responsibilities and Duties 

Technical Skills

Job Description:

As a Sr. Software Engineer on the Productivity Engineering team, you will be responsible for the development of DevOps and test automation including environment creation of products and services, end-to-end solutions test automation that exercises critical customer paths, as well as services and workflows to run within pipelines.

What is the Vertex Productivity Engineering team. Our goal is to unleash innovation and bring operational excellence to software development with insights, tools, and infrastructure that enables frictionless delivery of features with high bars for quality, security, and reliability.

 KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:
(MUST HAVE) Experience with AWS

• (MUST HAVE) CI/CD pipeline experience with cloud-centric applications across a variety of stacks
• (MUST HAVE) Experience designing, developing, executing, and triaging end-to-end test automation against cloud-based products
• (MUST HAVE) Development of applications/services in a cloud environment.
• Experience with Kubernetes and CNCF technologies, docker
• Deep understanding of software testing including unit, component, system, end-to-end, contract, and interoperability, BDD, TDD.
• Infrastructure-as-code development including Terraform and Ansible
• Ability to develop in several languages with priority of Java, .NET, Python, javascript.
• Must be able to quickly acquire product knowledge, read business scenarios, and transform those into test automation.
• Practitioner of agile practices
• Must be results oriented and customer focused.
• Data-driven with working history of measuring test automation efficacy and efficiency.
• Data analysis and engineering business intelligence background developing back-end data storing and front-end visuals for metrics and insights a huge plus
• Agile role certifications a plus, including value stream mapping practices to identify and eliminate waste in software delivery processes

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop, execute, and triage test automation that covers critical customer paths of leading tax SaaS solutions.
• Development of shared deployment pipeline services and automation for delivery of cloud applications through multiple environments, on multiple stacks include cloud-native Kubernetes as well as AWS EC2 instances
• Develop services and tools to handle the scheduling and orchestration of automated test suites
• Create cloud and application environment automation (infrastructure-as-code) and scripting to setup environment for both test automation and manual interaction
• Data-driven analysis and monitoring for triage of failures of services/applications, pipelines, and tests
• Write and structure documentation, representing architectures and user flows visually
• Work with Product Management and Engineering teams on construction of test cases, triage and reproducing of product defects, and instantiation of automated test environments.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING:
· Bachelor’s degree  in computer science, Information Systems, or related field; or equivalent combination of education/experience. Master’s degree is a plus.
· 10 years or more experience of software development with 5 or more in a lead or architect type role

About Encora 

Encora is the preferred digital engineering and modernization partner of some of the world’s leading enterprises and digital native companies. With over 9,000 experts in 47+ offices and innovation labs worldwide, Encora’s technology practices include Product Engineering & Development, Cloud Services, Quality Engineering, DevSecOps, Data & Analytics, Digital Experience, Cybersecurity, and AI & LLM Engineering.   

At Encora, we hire professionals based solely on their skills and qualifications, and do not discriminate based on age, disability, religion, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or nationality.