Senior Quality Engineer with API/Kafka testing experience

Senior Quality Engineer with API/Kafka testing experience

Position Description
Founded in 1976, CGI is among the largest independent IT and business consulting services firms in the world. With 94,000 consultants and professionals across the globe, CGI delivers an end-to-end portfolio of capabilities, from strategic IT and business consulting to systems integration, managed IT and business process services and intellectual property solutions. CGI works with clients through a local relationship model complemented by a global delivery network that helps clients digitally transform their organizations and accelerate results. CGI Fiscal 2024 reported revenue is CA$14.68 billion and CGI shares are listed on the TSX (GIB.A) and the NYSE (GIB). Learn more at cgi.com.

Jo Title: Senior Quality Engineer with API/Kafka testing experience
Position: QA
Experience: 6- 9 Years
Category: QA
Shift: Timing/rotation
Main location: India, Hyderabad
Position ID: J0226-0141
Employment Type: Full Time

Education Qualification: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or higher with minimum 3 years of relevant experience.

Looking for a Senior Quality Engineer with API/Kafka testing experience

Candidate must have an agile mindset; An expert in Scaled Agile delivery model, experienced with agile ceremonies such as daily scrums, spring planning, sprint reviews and sprint demos
API Testing Tools: Experience with tools like Postman, REST-assured, or similar for API testing.
Kafka: Strong understanding of Kafka concepts, including producers, consumers, topics, and partitions, as well as experience with Kafka clients.
Automation Frameworks: Experience with building and maintaining automation frameworks, often using Python or Java
CI/CD Pipelines: Familiarity with CI/CD tools and processes
Database Knowledge: Understanding of databases (SQL and NoSQL) for data validation and backend testing
Design and develop high-quality automated UI and API tests for web applications
Develop and manage software test plans, and traceability. Write high-quality regression test plans for application under validation
Provide manual and automation testing estimates during discover and sprint planning phases of development lifecycle

Essential skills: 
Work on projects for one of the largest financial institutions in US.
Work in a challenging technical environment and gain exposure of advanced tools and technology suites
Should be able to work independently and manage the work on your own. 
Looking for a Senior Quality Engineer  with API/Kafka testing experience

. Candidate must have an agile mindset; An expert in Scaled Agile delivery model, experienced with agile ceremonies such as daily scrums, spring planning, sprint reviews and sprint demos
. API Testing Tools: Experience with tools like Postman, REST-assured, or similar for API testing.
. Kafka: Strong understanding of Kafka concepts, including producers, consumers, topics, and partitions, as well as experience with Kafka clients.
. Automation Frameworks: Experience with building and maintaining automation frameworks, often using Python or Java
. CI/CD Pipelines: Familiarity with CI/CD tools and processes
. Database Knowledge: Understanding of databases (SQL and NoSQL) for data validation and backend testing
. Design and develop high-quality automated UI and API tests for web applications
. Develop and manage software test plans, and traceability. Write high-quality regression test plans for application under validation
. Provide manual and automation testing estimates during discover and sprint planning phases of development lifecycle
. Investigate automated & manual test failures to ensure application correctness, update automated test scripts as needed
. Replicate prod defects in the lower environments, log defects in defect management system for resolution. Provide issue walkthroughs to the developers or software engineers
. Automate repetitive validation tasks in browser-based/ API based test automation products
. Report testing results/ metrics to the QA manager and other project stakeholders
. Partner with product teams to design and develop acceptance criteria
. Report progress, test metrics and results to the project stakeholders
. Perform all activities involved in the software testing lifecycle

Highly effective written and verbal communication skills

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Your future duties and responsibilities
Mandatory Skills:

1.Automation quality engineer in an Agile team.
2.Selenium with JAVA
3. Azure DevOps, GIT or SVN.
4.Hands on with SOAP UI
Hand on experience in testing within Kafka streaming platform
Experience developing tests using BDD frameworks.
4+ years of experience developing maintaining & executing automated regression tests for web and backend applications.
3+ years of experience writing SQL scripts and ETL Testing.
Hands on Experience with Jira / Xray / Confluence
Good understanding of Agile project management/ DevOps tools

Required qualifications to be successful in this role

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