QA lead/Architect

QA Lead/Architect Position in Colombia

Need your help to run a quick search on this requirement and let me know if you are able to find these technical resources in Colombia before sourcing/submitting resumes.

1. Need QA lead/architect only and not Jr/Mid-level QA automation testers

2. Must have 12-15+ years of experience in QA automation alone

3. Must have strong communication skills.

4. Below highlighted skills are mandatory

5. There will be an hour technical assessment test thru Hackerrank, so must find technically strong resources.

6. Telecom/Network layer experience is a plus

Job Description:

Responsible for writing manual and automation tests, framework creation and reporting for both positive and negative tests. Should have good communication skills and interpersonal skills.

Develops and/or executes implementation according to project plans and priorities.

Able to work independently and has good technical communication skills to collaborate in a team.

General Activities:

• Ongoing communication with developers to clarify feature requirement and make sure all test scope is addressed in test plan and working on test execution
• Developing automation testing based on In-Sprint testing and E2E use cases
• Deep knowledge of containerization/virtualization and Kubernetes
• Good knowledge of popular CI/CD frameworks (preferably Jenkins, TeamCity)
• Having extensive experience in types of testing –Static, System, Functional, Regression, Smoke, Integration testing, Load testing through SDLC
• Coding E2E Automated tests for the Angular UI frontend with Webdriver.io + Cucumber.js and TypeScript
• Coding Rest API testing automation Cucumber.js, Node.js and TypeScript
• Coding of System testing with ansible, bash scripting, Kubectl and Helm
• Full regression execution and reporting
• Ability to do research and find the best and effective way of test automation implementation for required functionality
• Collaboration with stakeholders
• Work in a global team environment
• Attend status calls with stakeholders as needed
• Work closely with the product team

Expectations:

• Frontend testing frameworks/libraries: Webdriver.io, Cucumber.js, Node.js, TypeScript
• Backend testing: Rest API testing automation tools, Cucumber.js, Node.js and TypeScript
• Load testing: JMeter, Grafana + Prometheus
• Deployment models: Docker, Kubernetes
• Continuous Integration Tools: Jenkins, TeamCity, GitLab
• Environments and Cloud services: AWS, Azure, Google cloud, RedHat OpenShift
• Version control system: Git, Bitbucket
• Builds: Maven, NPM, JVM, NodeJS
• Ticketing: Jira
• Documentation: Confluence, Gitlab
• Databases: PostgreSQL, Neo4j
• Test Management: TestRail
• Solid expertise in automated testing of distributed systems including mission critical ones
• Having experience in types of testing – Static, System, Functional, Regression, Smoke, Integration testing, Performance testing and Scalability testing
• Familiar with Agile In-sprint testing and waterfall testing
• Hands-on experience of CI/CD pipeline configuration and maintenance
• Solid operational and administrator experience with Unix operation systems
• Understanding Microservice solution architecture and Docker, K8S

Desirable:

• Frontend programming/markup languages: Typescript/JavaScript, html, CSS, SVG
• Frontend development frameworks/libraries: Angular 2+, Node.js/npm, D3.js, gulp
• Backend programming/markup languages: REST API, TypeScript and Node.js
• Backend development frameworks/libraries: maven, Spring Data/Security/MVC
• App Server: Apache Tomcat
• DB: Neo4j (graph DB), PostgreSQL + TimescaleDB
• Other Skills: ElasticSearch, Kafka integration, SSO (LDAP, Reverse Proxy, OAuth2, SAML)
• System testing: Bash, Shell, Python, Ansible scripting
• Programming theory: algorithms and data structures, relational and graph database concepts, etc.