Backend API Tester

Job Description

This position is responsible for identifying and analyzing the quality engineering & continuous testing needs related to technology solutions to complex business problems.

This position will also serve as a liaison between the product owners, the business community, and application developers.

This position will establish and implement all quality engineering processes and tools, including test methodologies, test strategies, test design techniques, automation scripts, and automated tools to ensure that exhaustive testing is conducted for complex custom and vendor supplied software systems.

• Design and establish quality measures, standards, and tools for new applications, products, and / or enhancements to existing applications throughout their development / product lifecycles.
• Assist with the quality implementation and support of multiple applications from both the user and technical perspective.
• Assist with the coordination of cross-functional and cross platform test strategies for upstream and downstream integration.
• Review and edit files using a software editing tool to aid in testing scenarios as well as assist business lines with schema validation / format / inbound / outbound testing.
• Assist in formal and informal reviews throughout the software development life cycle.
• Develop and communicate technical policies, procedures, and strategies, and clearly articulate complex situations to both technical and non-technical personnel.
• Lead quality engineering testing efforts related to cloud testing strategy and efforts
• Ensure that testing activities assess application s ability to meet business requirements, systems goals, end-user requirements, performance requirements, and security requirement.
• Design and develop appropriate test plans, test cases, and story / feature test data to test complex problems or to address specific user requirements.
• Develop feature based testing roadmap schedule, identify testing & development dependencies and collaborate with business integration and product owners for thorough coverage of e2e testing and sign-off
• Design and develop sprint regression testing methodologies, scenarios, risk based testing strategies and automation suite.
• Design and implement defect prevention techniques & tracking processes and appropriate metrics to ensure that all software meets quality standards.
• Collaborate with application development personnel and business personnel to plan all phases of application testing including, unit, integration, system, regression, load, performance, security, contingency, and user acceptance testing.
• Provide weekend and / or evening testing support for applications in rotation with other members of the department, as needed.
• Recommend policies, standards, and procedures for continuous improvement & continuous testing of the Quality Engineering role within the FRS.
• Provide Subject Matter Expertise to user communities on quality engineering tools and techniques.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Expertise you will bring-

• Expert knowledge of software development life cycle, quality engineering, agile testing best practices and methodologies.
• Proven data analysis, data verification, and problem-solving abilities.
• Substantial exposure to project-based work structures and ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously and in a virtual setting.
• Ability to be quickly become proficient with new software applications & payment systems.
• Collaborate with developers in reviewing unit test and integration results for coverage analysis
• Design & develop pipeline as a code for Continuous testing pipeline to integrate automation scripts into CI / CD pipeline.
• Experience of BDD implementation, tagging strategy and pipeline integration
• Experience in performance testing tools like performance center & JMeter
• Strong knowledge of RDS and NoSQL databases, writing queries, stored procedures and scripts
• Experience in programming using Python or Java or other languages
• Experience with API development, service virtualization, and mock testing
• Experience with Kafka, MQ message queues based automation and cloud testing skills.
• Drive automation efficiencies and coverage effectiveness using different tools and techniques
• Review the development code to build effective automation suite to cover technical and business integration automation coverage
• Excellent communications, organizational, presentation, interpersonal, and negotiation skills with the ability to cultivate positive working relationships with business and technical staff from all levels within the organization.
• Working knowledge of UNIX, SQL and software editing tools
• Strong communication skills and ability to produce clear, concise and detailed documentation
• Capture quality data and metrics to provide insights and conclusions
• Bachelors or higher qualification in Computer science, Information Systems or equivalent is preferred.
• SAFE or Agile certification, Cloud or DevOps certification is a plus

Last updated : 2024-09-09