Principal Software QA Engineer
UKG
Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
Description Description UKG is looking to hire a Principal QA Engineer for one of our HRSD Team. You will work within a global and distributed team to develop, Test quality software aligned with product and company objectives; and take part in building one of our next generation platform products. The right candidate will have experience both in hands-on software testing and systems engineering, as well as exposure to diagnosing and communicating about difficult problems in either engineering or production environments. This role will require a significant breadth of both technical and non-technical skills, and a creative, driven, and motivational attitude. You will be responsible for the product quality delivery as per QA test strategy. This role will require experience in automation, performance testing to deliver quality product as per product development/maintenance roadmap and in line with organizational vision to deliver quality product to it’s clients. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: (other duties may be assigned) • Work on test strategy as per business value and delivery commitments. • Write test cases for manual, automation and performance testing and execute as per business requirements. • Perform reviews of peers test cases and their results. • Perform final test results audit before build is moving in higher environments for production rollout. • Work closely with other development, product, platform teams to ensure successful implementation of applications as per business vision. • Work closely with product, developers to design and deliver the key components • Responsibilities include understand the product, developing and executing test strategies to ensure quality service pack releases • Ensuring proper functionality and performance of a wide variety of applications and platforms • Successful candidates will be experienced in modern test methodologies and processes executed throughout the software development life cycle and have a proven track record as an individual contributor in a small agile team environment • A demonstrated ability to deliver quality product releases on schedule using risk analysis and defect containment practices, test automation and continuous improvement initiatives are key to this position • Technical guiding, mentoring & leading the junior members in the team • Providing technical expertise to the projects • Growing the technical knowledge & expertise of the team • Responsible & accountable for the quality delivery of the product/project Qualification • 8–10 years of IT industry experience working with product companies and top tier service level organization • Must have experience in Manual + Automation (Nightwatch JS and Karate DSL (java) and protractor tool, JMeter) • Good knowledge of SDLC/Bug Lifecycle/STLC • Good knowledge of test case design techniques and test case reviews • Good experience in SQL server/Mongo DB/any database • Good experience in test management tools like JIRA • Good at problem solving with excellent documentation and communication skills • Good coding skill in a programming language • Process-oriented with high attention to detail • Excellent problem solving and decision-making abilities • Experience testing using various platforms