Principal QA Engineer

Job Number: 23991

Position Title: Principal QA Engineer

External Description:

Our Group

The metadata foundation team is on an ambitious mission to discover, analyze and map all data and information flows in the enterprise; providing intelligence that allows customers to unlock the power of data. It empowers customers to find, classify, catalog and analyze data assets and data flows across systems; understand and address data security risks; govern data quality and data flows in the enterprise. The group is responsible for providing a unified, highly scalable and extensible metadata cataloging and visualization foundation for our fast-growing Data Catalog, Data Security and Data Governance applications and fueling intelligence for our broader Enterprise Cloud Data Management offerings.

 

Your Opportunity

Metadata is foundational to Informatica’s Intelligent Data Platform on which all Informatica products are built. We are looking for a Senior Software QA Engineer to join a highly talented team and work on technologies involving graph databases, BigData/Hadoop, structured and unstructured data, cloud, search engines and data classification and correlation techniques involving ML and NLP.

 

In this role, you will be responsible for developing test strategies, test and critique software components and interfaces in great technical depth, develop right architecture and frameworks and tools for executing test plans to increase productivity and efficiency. You will play a key role in on-time product delivery with high quality and drive customer success through R&D level support and related engagements.

 

You will be a key member of a high performing team that ensures the continued high quality of our metadata foundation. You will work closely with development, product management and other quality assurance team members and peers in other teams to ensure our customers receive the highest quality of software possible.

 

 

Our Ideal Candidate

 

This position is suited for highly energetic self-driven individual who aspires to achieve challenging goals as part of his career objective. As an ideal candidate, you shall be responsible for developing REST based automation framework, conducting functional, concurrency, tests with efficient usage of automation tools and API testing, and also provide feedback and advice to product development. You shall be able to efficiently prioritize and organize your tasks. You shall be detail orientated and seek to bring innovation and process improvement to SQA procedures.

 

 

Your Responsibilities

As a key member of the Foundation team your responsibilities will include

 

• Develop automated tests not only for your products but also in support of other QA engineers
• Design and develop test frameworks and maintain existing internal QA tools
• Hiring strong and diverse talent to strengthen the team
• Work closely with Global customer support teams to address critical customer issues      
• Design and develop test plans and test cases based upon functional and design specifications focusing on specific user stories including test cases for regression of current products
• Participate actively in an Agile based development / testing environment, including reviews and planning activities
• Participate actively in functional, system, stress, longevity and regression testing activities
• Implement test cases/suites leveraging tools like TestNG, Selenium, Cucumber
• Good hands-on with Linux Operating System
• Analyze and report test results to product teams
• Participate in test case reviews and provide feedback
• Collaborate with cross-functional and remote teams in an Agile environment
• Participate in internal/cross team meetings, scoping, decision making and technical documentation reviews
• Work closely with the development team to analyze, debug and resolve identified issues
• Collaborate effectively with engineers to solve complex problems to deliver end-to-end quality in our technology and customer experience
• Influence development managers to insure appropriate levels of quality on owned technologies
• Troubleshoot functional, stability, stress test issues and recommend solutions
• Assist customers and field engineers with troubleshooting issues and problems
• Mentor junior engineers involved in the same work
• Understand technical test challenges and design feasible solutions to address them
• Work closely with the rest of the engineering team in an agile environment in delivering high quality products
• Organize own tasks and takes responsibility for progress and completion
• Interacts with senior, internal and external personnel
• Ability to communicate or present to the whole product team and occasionally across products
• Interacts with and influences other groups on same product and cross product groups
• Have a positive attitude towards the challenges and possess the feel to be a good fit with Informatica culture
• Demonstrates ability to multi-task and re-prioritize responsibilities based on changing requirements (such as urgent customer problems)

 

 

 

Your Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science or a related discipline
• At least 8-10 years relevant experience
• Strong object-oriented design and programming skills
• Proven ability to Understanding of large complex software systems to isolate defects, reproduce defects, assess risk and understand varied customer deployments
• Understanding of SOAP and REST based APIs testing
• Working knowledge of JAVA application servers including Tomcat
• Familiarity with functional and non-functional software requirements
• Excellent presentation skills, sharing technical decisions and discuss complex technical details with cross-functional teams, executives and external partners
• Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills within an organization
• Proven track record to work well with others in a fast paced, iterative product definition and development environment
• Ability to learn new skills quickly as needed in a dynamic environment
• Energetic and motivated self-starter with an ability to think creatively
• Ability to learn new technologies in a dynamic environment
• Familiarity with Linux OS and basic scripting knowledge is mandatory
• Knowledge of distributed systems and technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, Spark, Hadoop, HBase, YARN is a plus

City: Bangalore

State: Karnataka

Seniority Level: Mid-Senior Level

Alternative Location(s) :

Community / Marketing Title: Principal QA Engineer

Remote LinkedIn Hashtag:

LinkedIN Hashtag: LI-SP1

Company Profile:

EEO Employer Verbiage:

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