Principal Engineer, Software Quality Assurance
- Bangalore, Karnataka
- Permanent
- Full-time
The Principal Test Engineer/Automation Architect will be part of the wider software team supporting the delivery of new products and services to our customers. Responsibilities are working closely with the product management to understand wider delivery priorities and ensure automation supporting these are developed to support delivery speed and test coverage. Being actively involved in ensuring our delivery quality meets the business and customer needs by developing, monitoring and maintaining automation scripts in our comprehensive regression testing framework.WHAT YOU WILL DO:
To test and validate our product delivery quality across the entire platform of components, OPTs (Outdoor Payment Terminals) and other IoT devices, middleware, applications, and Cloud services. Architect, Design, Create, Implement and Maintain Test Automation Frameworks.
Understand the requirement, creating test plan and make sure to automate testcases within sprint. Completing regression testing on the areas in scope for testing by executing our automation frameworks and monitoring the results to ensure they reach both company and agreed industry approval standards with a focus on automation. Exhibit Automation First Approach.
Create automation frameworks for new micro-services. Maintaining our automation frameworks to ensure that they are operating and available for teams during delivery test cycles.
Where automation capability is not available conducting manual testing to validate the end-to-end flows.
To support release preparation and test exit reporting for acceptance decisions and audit / compliance purposes.Responsibilities include:
1. Test development and execution
- Create test strategy and test plans from analysis of business requirements, test estimates and development plans.
- Develop the framework wherever needed. Design test scripts from analysis of requirements and message specifications to prove the developed solution complies with the project/business mandate. This includes defining test description, scenario and expected result and are used to record/report actual results.
- Test hardware/software setup and verification environment. From time to time set up and testing may be required to be done off site (e.g certifying body)
- Clarification of functional issues and product/solution requirements and ensure issues/risks escalated to appropriate parties.
- Assist in developing standard documents, systems and procedures.
- Ensure repeatable and measurable testing methodologies are adopted and applied.
- Time management of testing workload to ensure delivery within timeframes assigned.
- Information regarding upcoming deliverables gathered, documented and communicated as required.
- Provide technical support to clients for installed systems – system integration and user acceptance phases.
- Perform application test activities required for delivery
- Lab setup and maintenance, test application in lab
- Application feature additions, tested and quality agreed
- Perform customer specific customizations, test and document deltas
- Product and EOL redesign testing and compliance confirmation
- Actively involved in product Support and testing and recommendation
- Close coordination with other members of the Engineering, project and test team to ensure delivery of projects within time and
- Continually seek ways to improve and enhance the quality assurance process and the process of application development and
- Ownership of module or micro-services for its quality.
- Make recommendations for process improvements where appropriate
- Maintain an audit trail of modification history
- Support acceptance/pilot testing
- Maintaining and improving area of specialist knowledge, undertaking training where appropriate
- Automate all aspects of testing of the product by completing the development of test software to test new functionality and
- Proactively maintain our automation framework assets providing status reports to Test Leadership team on availability and state
- Train and mentor test engineers on the automation frameworks and the operation of these to grow the automation capability of
- Ensure timelines are met.
- Ensure any documentation is updated and submitted.
- Ensure customer specific application solutions are in line with the customer and company requirements
- Escalate issues in a timely manner
- Assist with technical input to project management and work with Project Manager/s and Test Team Leader to monitor project
- Actively use and advocate use of Invenco processes.
- Ensure solutions delivered to testing and support achieve the agreed quality standard
- Maintain and improve area of specialist knowledge by keeping up to date with advances in industry and undergoing approved
5. Software documentation
- Produce appropriate test plans, work instructions, reports and release documentation.
- Verify delivered software documentation – user guides, app notes, specifications etc.
- Document resolutions of issues.
- Ensure standard issue tracking systems used
- Ensure versions can be tracked and reverted as required
- Validation automated and manual test plan coverage.
- Co-ordination and communication around releases, including aggregation of software packages, verification and release.
- 12- 18 years of experience including creating automation frameworks and infrastructure
- Tertiary qualification in engineering/electronics
- Understanding of the software development lifecycle
- Testing of application and microservice technology
- Testing of embedded firmware testing an advantage
- Experience working with Agile development methodology
- Able to demonstrate an example of testing maturity with regards to measurability and repeatability
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
- No restrictions to travel