QA Manager

Job Number: 24258

Position Title: Manager, QA Engineering

External Description:

Our Team

Informatica Core Metadata Group(CMG) enables delivering authoritative, trustworthy and high quality data to all stakeholders across all domains for all projects and business applications—on premise or in the cloud—using a single, unified platform, the Intelligent Data Platform.

The Intelligent Data Platform powered by CLAIRE enables organizations to out-perform competitors through the disruptive use of data. The CLAIRE engine provides Enterprise Unified Metadata Intelligence to accelerate productivity across the Informatica Enterprise Cloud Data Management product portfolio and is responsible for

• Extracting and loading metadata across a wide variety of source systems that include DI, DM, BI and Relational sources
• Discover and profile sources to derive meaningful statistics
• Provides a rich UI interface for searching metadata and provides lineage and relationship of various metadata assets
• Leverages a variety of big data technologies
• Uses machine learning and other AI techniques to classify, cluster data sources and provide recommendations to accelerate and automate governance processes of the Informatica Intelligent Data Platform.  

Your Opportunity

We are looking for a Quality Assurance Manager with a proven record of mentoring highly enthusiastic team, Contributing in testing and delivering enterprise class software. In this role, as part of Enterprise Data Catalog team, you will have the unique opportunity to lead ground-breaking work that helps establish Informatica’s ML/AI engine i.e. CLAIRE and make Informatica Intelligent data platform the industry standard for data management.

You will be responsible for taking care of all steps starting from QA Process, dataset preparation, test plan, testing strategy, training algorithms and deploying models to enable AI/ML based solutions. Projects will range from simpler prediction problems with linear/logistic regression to complex problems in NLP you will be responsible for design, architecture and delivery of a product feature or component.  

Our Ideal Candidate

We want you to be a strong technical member with excellent testing and team management skills. The ideal candidate is adept at using large data sets to find opportunities for product and process optimization and using models to test the effectiveness of different courses of action. They must have strong experience using a variety of data mining/data analysis methods, using a variety of data tools. Strong ability to work independently in a techno functional environment They must have a proven ability to drive business results with their data-based insights. They must be comfortable working with a wide range of stakeholders and functional teams.

Your Responsibilities

As an integral part of the Core Metadata Group, R&D team you will be responsible for the following –

 

• Experience with phases of the test cycle (Test planning, Test case development, test execution: manual and automated, regression, system test & user test).
• Collaborate effectively with peer engineers, and architects to understand the complex problems spanning their respective areas to test end-to-end components & features.
• Gather and interpret broad requirement specifications from customers/Product Management that are not yet fully defined.
• Good hands-on experience and in-depth knowledge of Java and related technology
• Be very hands-on and own/drive key product features and Demonstrate ability to multi-task with effective prioritization
• Handle customer escalations that are routed to R&D from Global customer support
• Be a proven performer and a team player who enjoys challenging assignments in a high-energy and fast growing distributed workplace
• Conduct technical interviews. Demonstrate ability to judge candidate’s all-round suitability for a position.
• Work in an agile software development team delivering product and feature increments in short iterations
• Mentoring and providing technical guidance to other team members
• Adhering to the QA process and reporting exceptions
• Thoroughly understand project requirements
• Communicating project requirements to team members
• Reporting and tacking QA progress
• Escalation of issues in a timely manner when needed
• Preparation of documentation such as test plans, DSR, Signoffs, Test Completion etc.
• Conducting Defect Triage meetings
• Representing QA in post-production incident meetings 

Your Qualifications

• Experience in ETL testing, Perl Scripting and Object Oriented programming skills.
• Strong problem solving skills with an emphasis on product development.
• Experience in products from Colibra, Allation or Waterline is desired.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for coordinating across teams.
• A drive to learn and master new technologies and techniques.
• Experience querying databases and using statistical computer languages: R, Python, SLQ, etc.
• Experience using web services: Redshift, S3, Spark, DigitalOcean, etc. 

Desired Qualifications

•  Experience analyzing data from 3rd party providers: Google Analytics, Site Catalyst, Core metrics, Adwords, Crimson Hexagon, Facebook Insights, etc.
• Experience with distributed data/computing tools: Map/Reduce, Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Gurobi, MySQL, etc.
• Experience visualizing/presenting data for stakeholders using: Periscope, Business Objects, D3, ggplot, etc.

 

City: Bangalore

State: Karnataka

Seniority Level: Mid-Senior Level

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At Informatica we know diversity drives innovation. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer dedicated to maintaining a work environment free from discrimination, one where all employees are treated with dignity and respect. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law and Informatica policy.

Travel Requirement: Limited

Location_formattedLocationLong: Bangalore, Karnataka IN