Lead Test Engineer

Responsibilities

• designing test strategies for new features developed for our Batch Analytics Team
• help drive the testing effort as a member of a cross functional team including Product Management, Development, UX, and Documentation
• understanding the architecture and design decisions
• defining and implementing new tests and automation
• evaluating the end user experience
• asserting the overall quality of the feature
• recommend and prototype new tools and techniques to help us optimize and evolve our process
• apply your skills to guide junior team members
• provide input and feedback to peers

• 5+ years of experience in professional software testing
• An openness to mentoring and collaborating with junior members of the team.
• Experience with:
  Java or Python; other object-oriented languages are a plus.
• Jenkins or equivalent CI/CD tools
• Web-scale data and large-scale distributed systems, ideally on cloud infrastructure.
• Designing test plans for cloud software
• REST API testing (functional and automation)
• Amazon Web Services (AWS) such as EC2, S3 and Lambda
• Testing microservices and end-to-end usage of them within a multi-tenant cloud application.

Hard Skills

• software testing
• Java
• Python
• REST API testing
• test automation
• test strategy design
• cloud software testing
• microservices testing
• end-to-end testing
• large-scale distributed systems

Soft Skills

• mentoring
• collaboration
• communication
• feedback provision
• teamwork
• problem-solving
• guidance