Associate Software Development Engineer in Test

Acquia empowers the world’s most ambitious brands to create digital customer experiences that matter. With open source Drupal at its core, the Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) enables marketers, developers, and IT operations teams at thousands of global organizations to rapidly compose and deploy digital products and services that engage customers, enhance conversions, and help businesses stand out.

Headquartered in the U.S., Acquia has been named a top software company by The Software Report and rated a leader by the analyst community. Acquia’s CoE is a Great Place to Work certified organization. We are Acquia. We are building for the future and we want you to be a part of it!

Quality Engineer

At Acquia, quality engineering drives the quality tool chain and process in an open and collaborative environment. To ensure that we have a repeatable process and systems to thoroughly test and uncover defects, quality engineering uses best of breed tools for automation and testing frameworks in conjunction with in-house tooling, infrastructure and services.  Quality engineers are embedded in each agile development team to facilitate and own the testing strategy, and test automation requirements for every iteration and release. The quality engineering team also regularly meets to review and improve overall testing processes, automation, innovations and standard methodologies. Each quality engineer works both independently and as part of a product group, where developers write tests and the quality engineering team supports the testing infrastructure and automation. In addition, they provide mentorship for best practices and develop testing systems for smoke testing, behavioral testing, stress testing, performance testing, as well as supporting quality metrics.  

The Quality Engineer is a strong voice for quality that actively pursues quality improvements, writing code, developing new infrastructure and tests to support our fast paced, highly diversified development organization.

Responsibilities:

• Work together with product managers, agile product owners, architects, tech leads and engineers to ensure the quality of our products
• Participate in technical discussions for products and test infrastructure
• Implement Quality best practices, tools, and methodologies
• Identify areas for improved testing efficiencies, test automation and implementation of automated test solutions
• Constantly evaluate the test automation strategy and approach to identify areas of improvement (i.e. test automation frameworks, coding standards, etc.)
• Participate with developers in writing prolific test case code using Ruby, PHP, Java, Go, etc
• Build and maintain efficient test frameworks and pipelines for performance, stress, and integration tests
• Work in an agile model as part of a team to develop fully automated test cases for functional, unit, and integration testing
• Take a hands-on approach to implementing QA processes right from requirements analysis, test design, implementation, automation, execution, maintenance and analysis

Qualifications:

• 1-3 years of hands on experience working on QA automation including functional, system, integration and regression testing
• Experience in developing test automation for Backend applications
• Proficient with backend API automation, tools/framework development necessary for the same 
• Strong hands on knowledge about testing concepts and understanding of database concepts, OOPs concepts and strong in core Java skills
• Strong proven understanding of various test types including client/server, white-box, black-box and positive/negative
• Proven test design skills, test case writing, automation and analysis
• 1-3 years programming experience in any of the web languages (go, php, ruby, java) or equivalent
• Experience with shell to apply command line tools
• Experience with continuous integration and build tools (i.e. Maven/Gradle, Jenkins, Travis)
• LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP) or Java & Spring boot stack experience
• Solid understanding of Kubernetes/docker/containers

Nice to have:

• Hands on experience with AWS/Azure/GCP/OpenStack
• Familiarity with open source software
• Linux OS system management experience
• Ubuntu, RHEL, Amazon Linux, etc.
• Operational knowledge of Drupal or any content management system in a production setting

Individuals seeking employment at Acquia are considered without regard to race, color, religion, caste, creed, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation. Whatever you answer will not be considered in the hiring process or thereafter.