QA Engineer

“QA Engineer”

Location: Chennai

GRC Solutions is a division of Wolters Kluwer that provides a broad spectrum of software solutions, consulting services and industry specific expertise to customers across the globe. Our products and services are targeted to assist in the management myriad governance, risk and compliance needs in today’s dynamic markets and regulatory environments. GRCS serves 350,000+ customers in over 150 countries, including 70% of Fortune 500 companies. Our global footprint includes a workforce in 28 countries, with over $1.1 Billion in revenue. Our clients include Corporate Legal Departments, Insurers, Small Business, Financial Services, Brand Pros, Underwriting, Governments and Compliance & Risk Professionals.

ELM Solutions (ELM) offers enterprise legal management Solutions to help businesses better manage their practices and processes. This business area brings its solutions to market as Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions.

The QA Engineer will work directly with a product development team that develops highly configurable software in a collaborative environment employing agile development methodologies. As a leader or individual contributor, the Software QA Engineer participates in the entire life cycle of product development, managing product quality through comprehensive test design, both automated and manual.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Management and Communication of testing effort
  • Work directly and collaboratively with a product development team.
  • Ability to work with virtual and diverse consulting and partner teams and organizations.
  • Assist or lead the product test designs ensuring comprehensive coverage.
  • Manage defect reporting and tracking of project.
  • Effectively communicate with project leaders and Engineering management regarding the scope and limits of testing and analysis efforts
  • Communicate and document testing efforts and technical aspects of projects.
  • Assist in off hours’ production go live smoke testing on need basis.
• Analyze Business Requirements
  • Assess compatibility of requirements with company quality standards
  • Help ensure the consistency, completeness, accuracy and testability of product requirements.
  • Develop detailed acceptance requirements for use cases (user stories)
• Test Planning and execution
• Design, develop, organize and maintain accurate and concise test plans as well as automated and manual test cases.
• Understand the full system under design to contribute to the development of the project and ensure the quality of the result.
• Identify potential risks and seek testing approaches to manage that risk
• Ability to provide input for designs, functional specifications, and project requirements , Software Testing
• Develop, implement and maintain automated test scripts
• Execute test cases for the following types of testing: Functional, Regression, Performance, Load, Integration, System, GUI and Installation along with Database Validations
• Analyze defects with the goal of being isolated and reproducible
• Clearly document issues and bugs
• Work closely with developers in debugging and fixing defects
• Work closely with developers in monitoring systems and database issues
• Able to suggest and negotiate product testability enhancements
• Experience creating and executing automated unit, system, performance and load test suites

Minimum Qualifications:

B.S./B.TECH in Computer Science preferred but will consider candidates with a bachelor’s degree in an equivalent discipline or those with relevant experience including:

• A minimum of 2 years of experience as quality assurance analyst
• Experience writing detailed, comprehensive test plans and test cases.
• Experience with test automation and load testing tools.
• Experience with testing full systems, in addition to knowledge of Change Control and Build Acceptance
• Experience configuring environments for testing using virtual machines.
• Experience training and mentoring QA personnel.
• Experience in production support processes.
• Experience testing commercial, enterprise software.

Preferred Qualifications: (Includes Minimum)

• 2 or more years of relevant experience working as a QA Engineer
• Experience using TOSCA, Selenium or similar tools for test automation.
• Experience using Cucumber/TestNG BDD
• Knowledge in scripting/Java script
• Experience working in Agile project environment.

Additional Skills, Knowledge & Abilities:

• Ability to work in a highly collaborative, teamwork-based, environment.
• Proven problem solving and troubleshooting/diagnostic skill and the capacity to think creatively under pressure.
• Excellent documentation and communication skills
• Knowledge of the software development lifecycle
• Quick learner with an ability to understand new concepts, technologies, and product functionality.
• Proven understanding of defect tracking systems, defect reporting, and defect recording protocol
• Ability to prioritize and handle multiple projects simultaneously.
• Good time management skills
• Experience in Agile development practices preferred.
• Results-oriented self-starter in need of limited supervision
• Experience working with offshore project teams preferred.