Senior Software Test Engineer

Company Description

GFK - Growth from Knowledge.

For over 89 years, we have earned the trust of our clients around the world by solving critical questions in their decision-making process. We fuel their growth by providing a complete understanding of their consumers’ buying behavior, and the dynamics impacting their markets, brands and media trends.

In 2023, GfK combined with NIQ, bringing together two industry leaders with unparalleled global reach. With a holistic retail read and the most comprehensive consumer insights - delivered with advanced analytics through state-of-the-art platforms - GfK drives “Growth from Knowledge”.

Job Description

As a Senior Software Test Engineer, you will be having following key responsibilities:

• Work on ambiguous requirements, uncover implied and missing requirements, find boundary conditions.
• Understand BDD, ability to work with product managers and developers to clarify business rules and capture these for automated verification 
• Thorough understanding of the SDLC awareness of the work involved in every phase even phases not heavy on software engineering tasks.
• Define and implement test strategies for the product.
• Design, implementation and delivery of scalable, maintainable, configurable, portable and robust test automation frameworks.
• Utilization of test management and reporting tools to provide effective reporting around automation effort.
• Participate in architectural and design discussions and drive the non-functional test requirements for the product.
• Define and implement test data management for the product.
• Analyse the root cause with pre-production and production issues and bridge the gaps in test strategy.
• Escalate quality issues and highlighting risks, providing risk analysis, identifying application bottlenecks and planning.
•  Collection of non-functional requirements and convert them into performance test plans, test scope definition, testing strategy and load model creation.
• Validate the solution design and performance by testing the application against load, volume, capacity.
• Analyse the data gathered from performance test runs and provide sound recommendations to performance improvements.
• Partner with operations teams and bridge the gap between understanding of software and infrastructure when it comes to knowledge around resolving complex issues.
• Extensive understanding of the technology stack(s) implemented within development teams
• Understanding of application packaging and delivery mechanisms.
• Skilled in using a variety of testing tools at all levels in the testing pyramid.
• Work in non-functional test tools such as JMeter, Blazemeter, Gatling, Stormrunner etc.
• Solid API and Web Services testing skills (REST, WebAPI)
• Experience with distributed source control (Git/Stash)
• Experience using JSON/XML objects

Qualifications

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Additional Information

Our Benefits

• Flexible working environment
• Volunteer time off
• LinkedIn Learning
• Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)

About NIQ

NIQ is the world’s leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. In 2023, NIQ combined with GfK, bringing together the two industry leaders with unparalleled global reach. With a holistic retail read and the most comprehensive consumer insights—delivered with advanced analytics through state-of-the-art platforms—NIQ delivers the Full View™. NIQ is an Advent International portfolio company with operations in 100+ markets, covering more than 90% of the world’s population.

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