Staff Quality Engineer

Strong technical skills, ability to work independently
Must be proficient in Java, spring boot, and Kafka - and capable of creating and automating tests
Will be guiding engineers in automated testing practices
No testing tools have been implemented - so manager would like to hear suggestions from this staff QE

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Position Overview: As a Staff Quality Engineer you are a leader with credible domain and functional expertise as demonstrated by the successful technical solution implementations by the team.

Responsibilities:

You provide leadership, mentoring, and guidance to your team and others on industry standard best quality assurance practices.
You bring your experience and expertise in planning, designing, writing and implementing effective tests based on use cases in your domain.
You leverage testing tools effectively and is up to speed on latest tools and technologies, proposing new tools that will help the EIS Insurance tests to be scalable, performant, reliable and easily maintainable.
You have the ability to effectively juggle multiple priorities and take part in technical design solution discussions collaboratively working with the engineers in coming up with best ways of completing their solutions with well designed automated processes.
You have the ability to identify patterns, and identify test solutions, influencing your team and others to adopt pattern solutions you propose.
You are able to provide effective feedback and is receptive to feedback.
You will be expected to identify interdependencies and escalate potential impact with multiple systems or source of record domains that the team interfaces with, providing suggestions or solutions to potential issues.
You proactively inspect tests anticipating and handling issues and alerts before they arise, continually iterating tests to discover issues before they happen.
You are expected to write automated functional, regression, load and performance tests.

Tools & Tech

Technical Skills:Deep knowledge of Java 17, Spring Boot 2-3, REST and SOAP APIs, Kafka connectors and Kafka Streams, GraphQL, GitHub Actions, Terraform, RabbitMQ, DynamoDB, Openshift, Azure AD, HashiCorp Vault, and JSON, Yaml.
Architectural Knowledge: Expertise in event-driven architecture, pub/sub models, and microservices.
Monitoring Tools: Datadog, ELK, or Swarmia, including application tools.
Software Tools: Experience with Atlassian products, including Jira and Confluence.

Required Skills:
7+ years of experience in engineering environments, taking abstract concepts and ideas and formulating a detailed software engineering test plan to deliver
Prior experience as an Staff QE Engineer with emphasis on software development engineering in Test.
Should have very strong experience integrating and maintaining test automation suite with CI/CD pipelines.
Prior experience with Github action/Github work flow experience is a big plus.
Prior experience using one or more of these tools, RestAssured, TestNg, Junit, Mockito.
Must have experience working on Mock server.
Expertise with postman, Soap UI and Load testing tools.
Have prior experience with ELK, Datadog or any Application monitoring tool.
Strong knowledge of industry standard Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) practices
Has experience working in an Agile Scrum Product Team setting with 2-week sprint increments.
Strong knowledge of version and revision control practices and procedures
Strong knowledge of systems design concepts that provide security and stability
Expertise in debugging code and/or complex log files for troubleshooting and analysis of product defects
Expert knowledge/experience with querying databases for complex data lookup/update
Perform code reviews with team members within or outside the team.

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