Senior QA Engineer-1

Job Summary :

Xylem seeks to hire a Senior Software Test and Automation Engineer who will work in the engineering group to provide end-to-end System Integration Validation. The candidate will also work closely with Product Development, System Test, and SW Engineering to insure the delivery of quality products to our customers.

Essential Duties/Principal Responsibilities:

• Create and execute comprehensive test plans for product and system verification

• Develop and execute manual and automated test suite

• Drive and help to establish best practices and testing processes

• Ability to help develop, set up, and manage test environments

• Ability to use statistical tools in solving problems

• Considerable knowledge of IT, HW, FW, and SW test methodologies

• Ability to communicate effectively in writing and orally

Key Competencies:

• Must be detail oriented and logical

• Excellent problem-solving skills

• Suggest and implement innovative ideas

Qualifications: Education, Experience, Skills, Abilities, License/Certification:

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science or related field; or equivalent experience is required.

• Minimum of 4 to 6 years' experience in a system verification related field

• Experience working in Agile Scrum software development model.

• Ability to work collaboratively within a team environment to meet aggressive goals and high-quality standards.

• Strong communication skills.

• Must be team focused, excellent communicator and collaborative demonstrated experience working with cross functional teams.

• Test automation experience in Cucumber or similar keyword driven test automation framework or tools

• Experience in test automation of web applications (both UI & APIs)

• Strong programming skills in C#, .NET, Selenium .

• Experience in System Integration of complex multi-product system networks with strong networking skills and IP interoperability background. (Prior exposure in smart grid applications and utilities would be a plus)

• Ability to identify and clearly document issues for resolution

• Working knowledge of some or all the following quality assurance methods: unit, integration, regression, and user interface testing, seapine test track, JIRA, testRail

• Experience to determine if test automation should use commercial tools and/or custom scripts coupled with the ability to develop automated custom QA solutions

• Familiarity with QA tools and techniques, bug tracking systems, test design and execution, test case management tools

• SQL and Oracle database knowledge and experience with software configuration management is desirable

• Swagger, Postman, load balancers, REST API's

• Exposure to JIRA and Bitbucket tools.