Lead Cloud Quality Engineer - Pune - Neptune @ Neptune consultants

Responsibilities

• Lead planning and execution of quality validation, automation and release sign offs
• Implement and execute automation strategies for all types of testing like integration, functional, failure and fault tolerance.
• Design, build and contribute to automation tools that simulate end user scenarios for QE validations
• Work closely with multiple teams across geographies for continuous improvements, innovate and own initiatives and ensure those are adopted and rolled out successfully.
• Continuously maintain, innovate, and improve automation and test processes to meet the challenging demands of handling large capacity cloud infrastructure
• Work closely with engineering, operations and partner teams to understand the functionality and define & develop test strategies for business use cases.
• Conduct code reviews, manage automation code quality and guide teams for improvements and adherence to best practices.
• Verify applications, microservices and Infrastructure stack (compute, network and storage) releases across cloud environments
• Build and maintain continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) environment
• Develop test strategies, create and execute test plans both manually and via automation for ongoing releases
• Code and automate application test cases for cloud platform
• Evaluate and develop test tools to improve test process and quality
• Lead the sprint planning meetings and daily cross team stand-ups and work with teams to mitigate any blockers and adapt to changing needs in a fast-moving environment.

Requirements

• MS/BS in Computer Science or equivalent
• At least 8-12 years of experience in Product development & Quality functional including design and development tasks along with Code review / bug analysis / Testing.
• Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals and data structures
• Experience architecting, building and maintaining test automation framework for unit, API, UI and integration testing
• Solid knowledge of test architectural principles, concepts, and application across web/cloud-based technologies AWS, Azure or Google Cloud , Kafka , Kubernetes
• Experience in administration of Linux machines, web servers, application servers and databases
• Hands on in writing clean code experience in automation testing using scripting languages like Python, Ruby, Perl,Java, C# or Powershell
• 3+ years of experience with configuration management tools like Chef, Puppet, Salt, Ansible, or equivalent
• 5+ years of CI/CD experience using Jenkins or equivalent
• Experience with working in agile scrums, object-oriented programming and product testing in an enterprise environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication, people and collaboration skills