Senior Quality Engineer

Company Profile:

VLink, founded in 2006, is a leading global provider of software engineering services with next-gen technologies and best-in-class talent. Our Headquarters are in the U.S, and we have offices in 7+ countries from North America-Europe to APAC, with expansion plans in the Middle East. With over 1,000 employees working globally, VLink has helped SMBs, and large enterprises achieve their business goals, and gained the trust of Fortune-250 companies. VLink is ‘Great Place to Work? Certified™' and has been a consistent winner as- Best Places to Work in CT. Trust, collaboration, and accountability are the three elements that are at the core of VLink’s work culture. We value our professionals, providing comprehensive benefits and the opportunity for growth.

Title: Senior Quality Engineer - API/Kafka

Location: Cleveland, OH, Pittsburgh, PA, or Dallas, TX, Onsite 5 days/ week

Job Type: Permanent Full Time

Position Description

We are looking to hire a Quality Engineer with API and Kafka expertise, focused on ensuring reliability, performance, and data integrity across distributed and event driven systems to work on projects for one of the largest financial institutions in US in a challenging technical environment and gain exposure of advanced tools and technology suites. This person will be skilled in validating RESTful APIs, asynchronous messaging, and Kafka based workflows through automated and exploratory testing.

Your future duties andresponsibilities

• Design and develop high quality automated API tests for applications
• Develop and manage software test plans, and traceability. Write high quality regression test plans for application under validation
• Provide manual and automation testing estimates during discover and sprint planning phases of development lifecycle
• Investigate automated & manual test failures to ensure application correctness, update automated test scripts as needed
• Replicate prod defects in the lower environments, log defects in defect management system for resolution. Provide issue walkthroughs to the developers or software engineers
• Automate repetitive validation tasks in browser based/ API based test automation products
• Report testing results/ metrics to the QA manager and other project stakeholders
• Partner with product teams to design and develop acceptance criteria
• Report progress, test metrics and results to the project stakeholders
• Perform all activities involved in the software testing lifecycle

Required qualifications to be successful in this role

• Over 9+ years of experience working as an automation quality engineer in an Agile team.
• 4+ years of test automation experience using Selenium with JAVA (Mandatory)
• Experience in managing code repositories and versions using Azure DevOps, GIT or SVN.
• 4+ years Hands on with SOAP UI
• 3+ years Hand on experience in testing within Kafka streaming platform (Mandatory)
• Experience developing tests using BDD frameworks.
• 4+ years of experience developing maintaining & executing automated regression tests for web and backend applications.
• 3+ years of experience writing SQL scripts and ETL Testing.
• Hands on Experience with Jira / Xray / Confluence
• Good understanding of Agile project management/ DevOps tools

Skills :

• Apache Kafka
• ETL
• GIT
• RESTful (Rest-APIs)
• Selenium
• SQL
• Test automation

Employment Practices:

EEO, ADA, FMLA Compliant

VLink is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive environment where diversity is celebrated. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check. Applicant information will be handled in accordance with VLink's privacy policy.