What are the responsibilities and job description for the API QA Engineer position at W3Global?
Job Description
- Provide high-level test effort estimate
- Create detailed and well-structured test plans and test cases
- Set up a test harness to test functionality
- Automation feasibility study, development & maintenance of API, functional, integration and load/performance scripts across platforms
- Build, deploy application & conduct manual and automated testing as per defined process
- Report and follow up of defects found until closure
- Analyze logs in order to understand the root causes of issues
- Participate in agile - standups, planning sessions and retrospectives
- Perform automated nightly application regression & performance test
- Functional/Integration/Production testing by leveraging CI/CD Pipeline
- Work both independently and in close collaboration with others in the team and across the business to achieve quality & performance engineering goals
- Bring the quality consciousness, test leadership and customer advocacy
- Create and maintain HOWTOs and other materials for quality & performance engineering team
- Knowledge Management/Retention - Cross training & documentation
- Actively coach/mentor quality engineers
- Publish KPIs & metrics, ensure process compliance
- Onsite - Offshore co-ordination, as required
- B.S degree or higher in computer science or related education
- 5 yrs. of experience in software engineering - QE testing
- 3 yrs. of experience in testing mobile apps, ads, metrics, video players (live/on-demand) & streaming media content on iOS & Android platforms
- 3 yrs. of experience in software engineering - QE automation
- Must be proficient in Java, TypeScript
- Must have experience implementing automation frameworks - (Selenium WebDriver/Appium/TestNG/Junit/Playwright)
- Must have experience with performance testing tools to measure server & client-side metrics
- Any experience in software engineering - Security testing
- Must have experience using Version control (GIT), SQL, CI/CD Tools (Jenkins), Build Tools (Maven, ANT, etc), Debugging Tools (Charles/Fiddler), Monitoring tools (New Relic), Agile Management Tool (JIRA), Test Management Tool (TestRail)
- Any certification related to QE/Process/Automation/Performance Test/Security