Principal QA Engineer

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Pune, Maharashtra
Senior level
Information Technology • Security • Cybersecurity
The Role
The Principal QA Engineer will lead a QA team in automating and testing distributed backend software architectures, mentor other QA engineers, improve testing processes, and ensure the quality of products through effective test planning and automation. Responsibilities include customer issue troubleshooting and enhancing QA automation frameworks.
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Principal QA Engineer

As an Applications & Systems Principal QA Engineer, you will be part of a motivated engineering team. You will be working on the Qualys "Next-generation Platform". Working with a team of engineers and architects, you will be responsible for prototyping, designing, developing tools to benchmark services and platform as well as work on customer engagements and onboarding for successful product adoption. This is a great opportunity to be an integral part of a team building Qualys’s next generation platform processing over a 100 million transactions and terabytes of data per day, leverage open-source technologies, and work on challenging and business-impacting projects.

Responsibilities:

  • Technically lead and mentor other QA personnel and ensure the team is focusing on automation, lead by innovation, enhance current automation frameworks, tools and strategy.
  • Lead products QA automation and report to QA manager for continuous feedback and improvement. Ensuring all deliverables and releases meet quality criteria through test planning and automation planning.
  • Work closely with the engineering team to understand product architecture and functionality to ensure that the quality engineers get apt support like automation hooks or debug builds wherever and whenever possible.
  • Work closely on the deadlines of the project and keep raising the bar, standards of all the quality processes on every release
  • Takes complete ownership of release deliverables along with multitasking and mentoring.
  • Improve processes for test plan reviews and ensure that that test plans get reviewed by all stakeholders.
  • Review test strategies and see that all the various kinds of testing like unit, functional, performance, stress, acceptance etc. are getting covered.
  • Assist in troubleshooting customer issues and providing root cause analysis whenever needed. Should be focal point of contact for the QA team for all the escalations related to testing and Quality assurance and automation.
  • Ensure that the several testing, validation processes and automation is improved continuously.

Qualifications and Skills:

  • Overall 8+ years of experience in automating and testing distributed backend software architectures, automation, and leading team of 6-8 engineers.
  • Good knowledge of any public or private Cloud platform.
  • Overall 8+ years of work experience in testing and automation of multi-tier Enterprise and/or Cloud, SaaS applications.
  • Hand-on experience in selenium, Python/Robot framework or any other scripting language is required.
  • Hands on experience of functional UI and API automation.
  • Hands on experience of performance & load testing.
  • Experience with microservices architecture using Kubernetes and Docker containers is a plus.
  • Strong vouch and experience in integrating automation for; CI/CD build processes. Managing QA Environments as well as working with build management tools like Git, Bamboo, Jenkins.
  • Troubleshooting of application, network issue, Knowledge of packet analysis, knowing tools like tcpdump, Wireshark is a big plus
    Knowledge of testing web application security and vulnerabilities is a big plus.
  • Performance testing in microservices distributed environment
  • Strong knowledge of Unix/Linux internals
  • TCP/IP and network knowledge and troubleshooting
  • Strong Application and Database debugging experience
  • Detailed knowledge of relational databases or better yet, NoSQL technologies
  • Strong experience with performance and stress testing in a Linux environment
  • Must be a critical thinker with excellent verbal and written skills.

Top Skills

Python
Selenium
The Company
Pune, Maharashtra
2,736 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 1999

What We Do

Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ: QLYS) is a pioneer and leading provider of disruptive cloud-based security, compliance and IT solutions with more than 10,000 subscription customers worldwide, including a majority of the Forbes Global 100 and Fortune 100. Qualys helps organizations streamline and automate their security and compliance solutions onto a single platform for greater agility, better business outcomes, and substantial cost savings.
The Qualys Cloud Platform leverages a single agent to continuously deliver critical security intelligence while enabling enterprises to automate the full spectrum of vulnerability detection, compliance, and protection for IT systems, workloads and web applications across on premises, endpoints, servers, public and private clouds, containers, and mobile devices. Founded in 1999 as one of the first SaaS security companies, Qualys has strategic partnerships and seamlessly integrates its vulnerability management capabilities into security offerings from cloud service providers, including Amazon Web Services, the Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure, along with a number of leading managed service providers and global consulting organizations. For more information, please visit http://www.qualys.com

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