Junior QA Engineer (Automation with Big Data)

GENERAL JOB DESCRIPTIONS

As the Automation Engineer (AE) you will be responsible for testing new global marketing SaaS applications. You will work closely with all members of the global software development team in four locations in USA, Central Europe, and Middle East to ensure financial and business logic meet the agreed upon project requirements.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Proven various automated and manual testing efforts such as functional, integration, contract, regression, end-to-end, load, performance and cross browser & cross platform testing
• Design automated test scenarios for Mapp SaaS platform
• Work closely with developers, product owners, technical owners, dev-ops, UX team members and architects to establish the right test plans, testing environments and settings, automation tests and ensure deployment to staging & QA environments
• Create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test suites
• Identify, record, document thoroughly and track defects
• Work closely with QA Tech Lead and other QA members to standardise quality methodologies, processes and tools across the entire organisation
• Adhere to the Agile principles implementing Scrum/Kanban approach within teams

REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• B.Sc in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
• 2 + years of experience in development of automated tests scenarios in Java (preferably)
• Experience in Big data testing (Hadoop) is required
• Technical experience with HBase, HDFS, MapReduce, Elasticsearch, Apache Kafka, HIVE
• Familiarity with TestNG/JUNit/other testing frameworks and SQL
• Geek factor: able to speak JSON, XML, HTML, comfortable with API, web services, micro-services, containers, knowledge of how the platforms that comprise a SaaS are put togheter
• Some experience working with Linux/Unix OS
• Experience working in an Agile environment (Scrum or Kanban) is a plus
• Fluent English