Sr.QA Test Engineer

The Opportunity

Huron is redefining what a global consulting organization can be. Advancing new ideas every day to build even stronger clients, individuals and communities. We’re helping our clients find new ways to drive growth, enhance business performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. And, we’re developing strategies and implementing solutions that enable the transformative change they need to own their future.
As a member of the Huron corporate team, you’ll help to evolve our business model to stay ahead of market forces, industry trends and client needs. Our accounting, finance, human resources, IT, legal, marketing and facilities management professionals work collaboratively to support Huron’s collective strategies and enable real transformation to produce sustainable business results.
Join our team and create your future

Position SummaryThe QA Test Engineer reports to the Corporate IT Manager in India. This is a role in Huron’s Software Engineering team based in India and works with Software Development and Corporate IT resources based in India and the US.
Under general direction, this individual is responsible for carrying out procedures to ensure that all AWS Platform, Power BI reports and data quality of releases meet the standards of the organization and end-user requirements, analyzing and testing software and application configuration to ensure that products meet design specifications and are within total quality management limits and standards. This individual is expected to participate actively in Agile testing methodology including helping to develop quality standards, test cases, software/hardware and application testing, and documenting process and test outcomes. They are responsible for developing, modifying and executing test plans and suites and communicating with product developers and technical support specialists on software issues. In addition, they are expected to perform tests to ensure proper operation and freedom from defects. They may create test data to ensure thorough evaluation, documents and work to resolve basic problems and report progress on problem resolution to management.
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The Senior QA Test Engineer applies company policies and procedures to address a variety of issues. They are also responsible for automation of regression tests and ensuring the quality of the code.Qualifications

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Works with Project Managers, Business Analysts, Software Engineers and other team members to ensure all testing needs for projects are met in a timely manner. Works with team members spread across multiple time zones and geographic locations.
• Collaborate with multi-functional teams to understand the functionality of different products that are being created on ETL platform.
• Must do testing for all the capabilities in and out for better product.
• Identifying the data sources, business rules, ETL requirements.
• Perform Test execution and report the progress. Report defects and liaise with development & other relevant teams for defect resolution.
• Handling changes and conducting Regression Testing
• Shall perform the stress testing and negative testing to understand the pain points prior so that it helps the people to develop / enhance accordingly.
• Develop Test Strategy for cloud Projects for various aspects like Platform testing, Application testing, Integration Testing and UAT as needed. Provide inputs for Test Planning aligned with Test Strategy.
• Drive standard processes for test automation, execution, and management, implement the right balance of testing with manual and automated test coverage.
• Strong analytical skills and a proactive demeanor towards testing and finding issues, we are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Software Engineer to join our team.
• Helps to develop procedures to increase the effectiveness of the QA team
• Keeps all relevant testing documentation up to date and available to appropriate parties
• Ensures documentation is thorough and clear for consumption by multiple parties.
• Contributes to team development and performance to achieve team goals
• Works with confidential and proprietary company and client data
• Strong attention to detail and ability to follow defined processes

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Computer Information Systems or equivalent experience.
• Work history: 4-6 years working experience in Data/Reporting and Analytics Testing or SQL Oriented role, with at least 4 years’ in testing.
• Experience:
  • Knowledge in any of the cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP). Knowledge of AWS would be a plus.
  • Experience in Cloud Infrastructure testing
  • Testing experience in more than one of these areas is must - Cloud foundation, Devops, Data Quality, ETL.
  • Understanding of business intelligence concepts, architecture & building blocks in areas ETL processing, Datawarehouse, dashboards and analytics.
  • Participate in Defect Triaging and track the defects for resolution/ conclusion
  • Proficiency in programming languages that are commonly used in data engineering such as Python and Spark. Knowledge of scripting languages like Bash or PowerShell can also be useful for automation tasks.
  • Hands-on experience with SQL is a plus.
  • Seeking someone who is eager to develop advanced QA techniques for data engineering and continuously learn to improve.
• Abilities:
  • Excellent English written and verbal communication skills, including proofreading and editing.
  • Strong team focus, willingness to help others, and problem solve team solution needs .
  • Under normal supervision a demonstrated ability to develop and create test cases from structured business requirements documentation as well as from less structured, ad-hoc, and/or limited documentation.
  • Proactively analyze, identify, and communicate problems effectively.
  • Proactively learn about new technology and QA techniques.
  • Work in a fast paced, high-pressure, and developing team environment.
  • Knowledge on Test Management Tools such as Azure Test Plans, Microsoft Test Manager, JIRA, Quality Center etc.

Posting CategoryCorporateOpportunity TypeRegularCountryIndia