Software QA Engineer

Job description

American Express is an innovative company with a long history and a bright future. Rated as India's top 10 workplaces by ‘Great Places to Work Institute' for 9 consecutive years, we've built a culture that nurtures extraordinary, highly diverse talent and turns opportunities into unparalleled career experiences for our employees. With a truly global footprint, American Express Technology is in the midst of an exciting and transformative growth period and we are looking for highly skilled, diverse and exceptional Technology professionals.
Quality Engineers that join our Technology team will be part of a fast-paced team delivering solutions across the Tool Chain Automation including Continuous Integration/ Continuous Testing/Continuous Deployment across several technology platforms (both mainframe and midrange). You will be challenged with identifying innovative ideas and proof of concept to deliver against the existing and future needs of our customers.
Focus: Provides guidance and subject matter expertise to engineers on Automation, Testing and Quality Assurance (QA) methodologies and processes, creates and executes test scripts, assists in preparation of test strategies, sets up and maintains test data & environments as well as logs results. Updates flows of services while testing. Provides maintenance of the regression suite and creates & executes automated test scripts. Functions as a platform SME who drives quality and automation strategy at application level, identifies new opportunities and drives Software Engineers to deliver highest quality code. Executes against the test and automation strategy defined at the portfolio level. The ability to deliver in a Continuous Deployment (CD) and Continuous Integration (CI) environment are key to the success of this role.
Key Responsibilities: • Works with engineers to drive improvements in code quality via manual and automated testing
• Delivers on capabilities for the portfolio automation strategy
• Involved in the review of the user story backlog and requirements specifications for completeness and weaknesses in function, performance, reliability, scalability, testability, usability, and security and compliance testing, and provides recommendations • Plans and defines testing approach, providing advice on prioritization of testing activity in support of identified risks in project schedules or test scenarios
• Develops test plans, testing resource requirements, and overall scheduling of testing activity
• Drives the development automation and testing in a CD/CI environment. Participate on Proof of Concepts to evaluate tools in close coordination with platform owners and platform engineering
• Develops manual and automated test cases and configurations needed to meet testing of business requirements
• Executes test cases/scripts to ensure delivery of quality software applications, including Systems Integration, Regression, and Performance Testing
• Generates test data to support the requirements and test case for various test phases
• Builds and maintains CI/CD Automation process and execution
• Responsible for managing the definition, implementation, and integration of quality principles into the design and development of software and IT processes for the team
• Monitors and tracks resolution of defects
• Designs, monitors, and analyzes quality assurance metrics such as defect, defect counts, test results, and test status
• Identifies opportunities to adopt innovative testing technologies and techniques
• Looks beyond the obvious for continuous improvement opportunities
This role may be subject to additional background verification checks.

Desired profile

Bachelor's Degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline, or equivalent work experience required; advanced degree preferred
• 3+ years of experience in Technology, with an emphasis on QA, and proven ability in writing test cases, running functional, automated, or performance tests, and managing defects
• Solid experience in test-driven development, unit testing, functional testing, system integration testing, regression testing, GUI testing, web service testing, and browser compatibility testing
•Experience with Agile, other rapid application development methods, and Waterfall SDLC
• Prior experience of developing and evaluating automation frameworks - Data, Keyword or Hybrid etc for mainframe, midrange and web/cloud platforms/applications
• Hands on experience on Test Automation (HP UFT / Selenium), Service Virtualization (CA-LISA) and Test Data Management (IBM Optim / CA Data finder)
• Experience in implementation of CI/CD tools & processes. Experience on tools like Jenkins, Maven, Ant, UrbanCode, CA Nolio, etc; and their integration for the orchestration of Continuous Delivery
• Experience with coding skills across a variety of platforms is a plus
• Any of the following test certifications - QAI, ASQ, IIST, ISEB, ISTQB, HP QTP, Service Virtualization - are a plus
• Experience with payments technology and industry is a plus High Performing Behaviors:
• Able to deliver technology for automation and testing in a CD/CI environment
• Able to gain cooperation from developers to deliver automation needs and quality code
• Learn new automation technology and advise , and drive deployment to the benefit of the portfolio