Location
Bangalore | India
Job description
Company Description:
IGS is a company in Bengaluru that delivers high-performance products and solutions. IGS offers global quality engineering services that aim to secure product's functional stability, quality of experience, performance, compatibility, analytics, and security. The company has a diverse portfolio to cater to different industries and ensure that clients receive the best service.
Responsibilities:
We are looking for a strong automation architect who can lead and manage the functional and non-functional testing efforts for one of the technically challenging projects involving micro-services development, new AWS landing zone creation for hosting the micro-services, and DevSecOps pipeline implementation to automate the code deployment process from a lower to a higher environment.
Test Strategy and Planning:
- Define comprehensive test strategies for all project phases (micro-services development, landing zone setup, CI/CD pipeline).
- Develop detailed test plans for each feature team and the overall project, covering functional, non-functional, and integration testing.
- Define the test automation strategy focusing automated test execution through pipeline to validate micro-services at feature and end-to-end level consuming the mocked APIs.
- Collaborate with architects, developers, and DevSecOps team to ensure testability is built into the micro-services and landing zone.
Test Execution & Management:
- Manage a team of testers and ensure efficient execution of test plans across all environments.
- Track test results, analyze defects, and report progress to stakeholders.
- Facilitate defect resolution through collaboration with developers and product owners.
- Monitor test environments and troubleshoot any issues impacting testing efficiency.
Stakeholder Management:
- Build strong relationships with stakeholders (architects, product owners, business leaders, developers) and actively communicate findings and test progress.
- Manage expectations and ensure stakeholders understand the value of testing in achieving project goals.
- Present test results and reports in a clear and concise manner, tailoring communication to different technical audiences.
Tools & Technologies:
- Proficient in Katalon Studio for test case development and execution.
- Good understanding of containerization and using Katalon dockers to run scripts in CLI mode using Katalon Runtime Engine
- Working knowledge of CI/CD tools and pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
- Working knowledge on BDD frameworks like Cucumber
- Good understanding of infrastructure provisioning (Infrastructure-as-code - IaC) tool like Terraform and software provisioning/configuration management tools like Ansible.
- Proficient in API testing frameworks and mocking tools.
- Experience with cloud platforms like AWS is a plus.
Qualifications:
- 12+ years of experience in software testing, preferably in agile environments.
- 6+ years' experience in leading and managing test teams both functional and non-functional.
- Strong working experience in managing the test automation of UI, API, and mobile applications.
- Experience in API mocking and using the mocked APIs in the E2E test automation.
- Experience in using the test data management / synthetic test data creation tools is desirable.
- Strong understanding of the development practices like TDD and BDD
- Strong understanding of microservices architecture.
- Experience in integrating test automation framework integration to the CI/CD pipeline.
- Good understanding of IaC (Infrastructure-as-code), configuration management, dockerization/ containerization
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively interact with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience in designing and executing test plans for complex projects.
- Proficiency in test automation tools and frameworks (preferably Katalon Studio).
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
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