Senior QA Engineer

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Description Oracle Digital Government GBU is on a mission to support national governments on their digital transformation journey. We are looking for a Senior Testing Engineer to join our team of highly skilled Software, Data scientists to invent, design, and build highly stable and performant software. You will be responsible for validating the quality of deliverables, fixes for issues reported by customers as well as improving the overall quality and stability of our products, evolving existing and building automation. You will work independently across the entire product suite ensuring the quality and reliability of our applications through comprehensive testing strategies, including unit, integration, regression, and more. Key Responsibilities: Tool and Paradigm Development: Design and develop new testing tools and frameworks tailored to our integration and web based Apps Innovate and implement new paradigms for effective and efficient testing processes. Build and Deploy Pipeline: Integrate testing processes seamlessly into the CI/CD pipeline. Ensure that testing tools and frameworks support the automation of build, test, and deployment processes. Testing Strategy: Develop and maintain comprehensive testing strategies covering all test types, including unit, integration, regression, performance, and more. Ensure thorough testing of microservices and their interactions with Java applications. Quality Assurance: Conduct rigorous testing to identify and address defects early in the development process. Implement best practices for test planning and test case management, defect tracking, and reporting. Collaboration and Mentorship: Work closely with developers, product managers, and other stakeholders to ensure quality throughout the development lifecycle. Provide mentorship and guidance to other test engineers and developers on testing best practices. Problem Solving: Identify, analyse, and resolve complex testing issues creatively and effectively. Exercise good judgment in solving day-to-day testing challenges independently. Your Qualifications & Skills: BS/MS in computer science, engineering or equivalent 5 years of experience in software testing and quality assurance, particularly with high availability applications, and APIs. Proven ability to design and implement new testing tools and frameworks. Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and their integration with testing processes. Strong knowledge and experience working with Selenium for testing Knowledge of Oracle GAT testing framework is a plus. Knowledge of REST end point testing, Knowledge of using REST end point tools like Postman and SOAP UI a plus Expertise in a variety of test types, including unit, integration, regression, performance. Hands-on experience with PL/SQL, Python is a huge plus Excellent problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to addressing testing challenges. Ability to work independently and collaboratively across teams. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Office and company language is English. Career Level - IC4 Responsibilities As a member of the software engineering division, you will assist in defining and developing software for tasks associated with the developing, debugging or designing of software applications or operating systems. Provide technical leadership to other software developers. Specify, design and implement modest changes to existing software architecture to meet changing needs.

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