Test Engineer

QA Automation Tester

Work time: Full-time

Location: Chennai, India

Date: September 2022

Who we are:

For over 25 years, A2MAC1 has provided our customers with a unique approach and perspective to competitive benchmarking via our expertise and proprietary technology, turning data into strategic differentiation through the profound insights we can provide.

At A2MAC1, we’re a diverse group, spread across the globe, with personal passion and motivation united by a shared set of values and goals. We’re committed to performing well as individuals as well as in teams within a work environment that encourages collaboration, innovation, and entrepreneurial thinking.

The business continues to grow and with over 600 employees worldwide, we are constantly looking for new talents to strengthen our team.

Opportunity of this role:

Our continued growth, success, and investment have led to the rapid expansion of our global technology team and we have recently opened our second technology development center in Chennai, India.

As a member of our global technology team, we are looking for a QA Automation Tester. Reporting to the Quality Assurance Manager, as part of our Engineering team, you will work closely with team developers, responsible for the software testing outcomes throughout the agile development of A2MAC1 Platform, products and services.

Your responsibilities as a member within one of our Agile Scrum teams will include the design, creation, execution and maintenance of both manual and automated test cases and contributing to global software testing thought leadership to ensure the continued satisfaction of customers using the A2MAC1 Platform, products and services.

Experience required:

§ Demonstrable experience as a QA Automation Tester (with QA certification based on background as a professional tester of front-end (online B2B SaaS) applications and back-end services (including API, micro-services and SQL database)

§ Ability to functionally decompose Agile Stories into actionable testable tasks, estimate effort and create and maintain automation test suites based on quality assurance best practice

§ Ability to create automation tests that can demonstrate quality of both functional and non-functional requirements (e.g, performance, scalability, resilience, security, etc.)

§ Experience of defining and validating use case acceptance criteria for the identification, communication, management, and resolution of identified defects

§ Used to working in an Agile environment, using test tools, IDE, CI/CD toolsets (preferably Azure DevOps, Selenium, JMeter, SQL, Low-code/No-code) to create and manage a comprehensive test suite, and supporting cross-functional Agile team members to ensure Sprint success

§ Understanding of best practice software engineering processes, techniques, and software technologies (preferably C#, .Net, SQL, NoSQL, Angular, Typescript, CSS, JavaScript)

§ Understanding of Cloud technologies and how to test products built on them (preferably Azure, virtualization, containerization, webservers, micro-services, authentication, managed services, etc.)

Qualifications & interpersonal skills required:

§ Minimum of Bachelor’s degree in an IT or computer science discipline with QA certification

§ Excellent English (French a bonus) communication skills, able to effectively communicate test progress and support developer understanding for corrective actions with empathy and patience

§ Creative thinker, able to use imagination to create innovative test scenarios

§ Strong organizational, problem-solving, and analytical skills with an eye for detail

§ Self-motivated, rigorous, and willing to work collaboratively as part of a team

§ Comfortable working to tight deadlines and taking responsibility for delivery

§ Willingness to respond to customer reported issues to qualify and reproduce defects

What we offer:

It is a very exciting time to be joining the A2MAC1 team, with our 25-year history of automotive benchmarking market leadership, our unprecedented growth and the opportunity ahead of us, we offer a dynamic, fast-paced collaborative team-based environment where through demonstrating our “GREAT” values of grow together, respect, excellence, ambition and trust we support each other to deliver innovative and differentiating products and services that continue to delight both our existing and our new customers.

Within our culture of innovation and inclusion, which values creative minds and offers continuous development, with experience that transgresses borders to connect our expertise, your passion, motivation, skills, and career can flourish.