Software Test Engineer

About the job

Job Description Software Test Engineer ( Playwright/ Cypress ) , Pune/India. You will: • Participate in "3 Amigos" (Business, development, testing) - pair with the PO and Developer and create Acceptance Criteria for the user stories. • Review the acceptance criteria and identify the test scenarios. • Provide test estimates during sprint planning. • Create a pragmatic test plan to cover testing within all phases of software development. • Develop automated acceptance tests for the features. • Develop and implement integration, regression, and system tests for the new features. • Create and maintain test data and test environment needed for testing. • Log defects and track them to closure. • Conduct exploratory testing as part of every sprint. • Develop automated tests for non-functional testing. • Collect quality metrics for the product and enhance the testing process for continuous improvement. Qualifications • The ability to review user stories to ensure that the acceptance criteria stated are correct, unambiguous, and verifiable. • 8+ years of experience as a Test Engineer, and at least 5 years of experience in automation. • The ability to work as an embedded tester in the context of a scrum team. • The ability to evaluate the complexity of user stories, contributing to estimates during sprint planning. • The ability to develop high-quality, maintainable, and performant test code. • The ability to ensure test execution is appropriately conducted by cross-functional scrum team members. • A good ability to judge when a proposed technical solution requires discussion and consensus within the cross-functional team. • Good understanding of the software testing methodology and process of the development team and being able to fulfill the tasks and ceremonies required from software test engineers. • Good knowledge of Exploratory testing techniques, Rapid software testing, Session-based testing, testing heuristics.

Requirements

• automation testing
• test planning
• defect tracking
• exploratory testing
• software testing methodologies

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience as a Test Engineer
• 5 years in automation

Preferred Technologies

• automation testing
• test planning
• defect tracking
• exploratory testing
• software testing methodologies

Benefits

• Flexible working environment
• Volunteer time off
• LinkedIn Learning
• Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)

About the company

NIQ, a leading consumer intelligence company, provides insights into consumer buying behavior and market dynamics. Their recent merger with GfK improves their global reach, offering businesses comprehensive solutions and advanced analytics.