Lead Quality Assurance Engineer

Clarivate™ is a global leader in providing solutions to accelerate the lifecycle of innovation. Working with the scientific and academic community, we empower institutions and libraries to drive research excellence and student outcomes by connecting trusted content, deep expertise, and responsible innovation. Clarivate is home to leading research, education, and library solutions, including Web of Science™, ProQuest™, Ex Libris™ and Innovative™.

We are looking for a Lead Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer - Performance to join our team. You will be a key member of the Vega engineering team driving improvements to our products’ performance, scalability and reliability. You will also be responsible for developing, modifying, and executing related test plans and test automation; and reporting on the outcomes of performance test runs. If this sounds like an opportunity you are interested in, then we would love to talk to you!

About You

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or similar field, or equivalent industry experience
• 5+ years of experience in quality assurance
• 3+ years of hands-on experience developing the performance test strategies of modern web applications, APIs and services.
• 3+ years experience contributing to test automation frameworks using Java, Python or similar.
• Experience working within and dynamically scaling a cloud-based environment such as Amazon AWS.

It would be great if you also had

• Experience conducting and evaluating performance testing using JMeter, Gatling, Jenkins, Linux, AWS or similar
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Datadog, Grafana, etc.
• Experience contributing to test automation frameworks using Java, Python or similar (TestNG, Page Object Model, Maven, Gradle etc.)
• Experience with relational databases and SQL.
• Familiarity with remote Selenium Grid (LambdaTest, SauceLabs, BrowserStack.)
• Ability to work with Continuous Integration tools (Jenkins, Azure DevOps, etc.)
• Familiarity with open-source libraries and tools
• Familiarity with Distributed VCS (Git, Bitbucket) and branch management
• Proficient with UNIX or Windows system essentials

What will you be doing in this role?

• Test software applications and reports problems to development team
• Create and maintains test plans, a test environment, test data, and testing tools
• Participate in the software development process to enable and continually measure improvements in quality
• Continual development and execution of new manual and automated test solutions as appropriate
• Maintains flexibility and strong working relationships with peers and management
• May lead and manage project planning for the teams
• May provide guidance and coaching to less-experienced peers

Product you will be developing

The Vega project is a very forward-thinking engagement and customer relations suite of tools for public libraries, to help library administrators reach out to and involve both their patrons and their communities in with more directed and personalized interactions. Vega is an AWS based SaaS multi-tenant platform, with multiple cross functional components which combine to deliver a unified, connected data experience across a library’s internal and marketing data, to a customer interaction management suite that is available for use by public libraries worldwide!

About the Team

You will be joining one of our agile development teams and will work alongside developers, designers, product experts and QA engineers to deliver frequent value to library staff and patrons across the globe.

Hours of Work

Full-time position, typical hours are until 6PM CEST, to align with the US-East timeframes for reporting purposes. This is a hybrid position working in the office 3 days every other week.

Benefits

• Holidays: 25 days paid leave per annum
• Private Health Insurance
• Paid Lunch
• Yearly Bonus
• Yearly Merit Plan
• My Learning Platform
• Mental Healthcare
• Fit Pass
• Life Insurance
• Accident Insurance
• Company bicycles for rent free of charge

Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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