Principal Quality Engineer
Location
Gurgaon | India
Job description
Introduction
The Economist is the leading source of analysis on international business and world affairs. We deliver our information through a range of formats, from newspapers and magazines to conferences and electronic services.
We are looking for a Principal Quality Engineer to lead quality within the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) business unit.
The successful candidate will support the business unit in setting up, approving and monitoring:
- engineering practices
- engineering principles
- testing standards
- quality standards
You'll be supported by a friendly and inclusive team who have the autonomy to define and improve processes and care deeply about developing each other's capabilities.
Accountabilities
- You will be responsible for managing and maintaining all quality & test activities within EIU
- You will work closely with the Head of Quality Engineering to ensure the Quality Engineering Strategy is followed in EIU
- You will collaborate with stakeholders to define functional and non-functional test requirements
- You will collaborate with stakeholders to ensure all testing phases are reliable and effective
- You will coach teams in best practices & principles
- You will apply and uphold industry standards for testing tools and techniques and advise on their application
- You will help to define ways to always improve testing and quality processes that will enable a shift left approach
- You will help coordinate test execution and test reporting across teams to stakeholders
- You will line manage existing quality engineers within the business unit
Experience, skills and professional attributes
- You have at least 8 years of industry experience
- You have significant programming experience
- You have significant experience in building automation frameworks for all types of testing
- You have significant experience in integrating tests into CI/CD
- You have significant experience in improving unit testing standards
- You have significant experience in coaching/mentoring colleagues to support development of automation practices
- You have solid understanding of cloud technologies
- You have a solid understanding of the test pyramid
- You are a solid communicator
- You have an understanding and appreciate the benefits of TDD
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