Software Test Engineer

Company Description

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.

Job Description

Job Description

We are looking for a Software Test Engineer to deliver product quality along with the development team.

You will…

• Participate in "3 Amigos" (Business, development, testing) - pair with the PO and Developer and create Acceptance Criteria for the user stories.
• Review the acceptance criteria and identify the test scenarios.
• Provide test estimates during sprint planning.
• Create a pragmatic test plan to cover testing within all phases of software development.
• Develop automated acceptance tests for the features.
• Develop and implement integration, regression and system tests for the new features.
• Create and maintain test data and test environment needed for testing.
• Log defects and track them to closure.
• Conduct exploratory testing as part of every sprint.
• Develop automated tests for non-functional testing.
• Collect quality metrics for the product and enhance the testing process for continuous improvement.

Qualifications

You have…

• The ability to review user stories to ensure that acceptance criteria stated are correct, unambiguous and verifiable
• 4+ years experience in testing and at least 2 years in automation testing
• The ability to work as an embedded tester in the context of a scrum team
• The ability to evaluate the complexity of user stories, contributing to estimates during sprint planning
• The ability to develop high quality, maintainable and performant test code
• The ability to ensure test execution is appropriately conducted by cross-functional scrum team members
• A good ability to judge when a proposed technical solution requires discussion and consensus within the cross-functional team
• Good understanding of the software testing methodology and process of the development team and being able to fulfil the tasks and ceremonies required from software test engineers
• Good knowledge of Exploratory testing techniques, Rapid software testing and Session-based testing, testing heuristics
• The ability to triage issues found and report on progress
• The ability to plan, execute and validate tests across the full test spectrum (functional, non-functional, infosecurity, integration, regression, smoke, UAT and OAT)
• The ability to identify opportunities to improve the quality assurance processes and actively contribute to test automation initiatives
• Understanding of BDD/TDD methodologies
• The ability to work in an automated test approach and page object design / facade / singletons patterns
• Basic understanding of Micro-Services architecture
• Knowledge in automated API testing
• Experience in Acceptance Test Automation in Cypress or JavaScript based test automation frameworks
• The ability to work in CI tools like GitLab and cloud infrastructure like GCP

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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NIQ is committed to reflecting the diversity of the clients, communities, and markets we measure within our own workforce. We exist to count everyone and are on a mission to systematically embed inclusion and diversity into all aspects of our workforce, measurement, and products. We enthusiastically invite candidates who share that mission to join us. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action-Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability status, age, marital status, protected veteran status or any other protected class. Our global non-discrimination policy covers these protected classes in every market in which we do business worldwide. Learn more about how we are driving diversity and inclusion in everything we do by visiting the NIQ News Center: https://nielseniq.com/global/en/news-center/diversity-inclusion