Overview:
*sr qa engineer*
*about the role*
we are looking for a white box performance qa engineer who has strong hands-on experience in extending and optimizing existing frameworks for stress & performance, service/integration testing on a complex web application. You will be working with the backend development engineering team and devops team to develop code and provide insight into the performance, scalability customer usage and failure analysis, generate test data, and simulations. You will be navigating the codebase/api, identifying weak spots and constantly designing better and creative ways to break software and identify potential problems. Some organizations refer to this as a software development engineer in test (sdet) or qa automation engineer.
*primary responsibilities*
- work closely with devops team to support multiple test environments
- work closely with architects, developers and qa engineers to design, build, extend and execute performance tests
- generate and analyze test results to improve scalability of the product
- understand the flow of code and how it interacts with different components
- reproduce, debug and find root cause of existing performance product issues
- identify weak spots and potential problems
- constantly design better and creative ways to break software
- continuously improve the existing automation, speed, quality, and automate repeated tasks
- work with qa team and other engineers to create testing tools and debug automation failures
*skills & experience*
- 3-5 years of hands-on experience in designing and building various api testing frameworks and/or end-to-end automation frameworks using python
- expertise using tools to build and optimize frameworks, such as lucas, grafana and pytest
- 1-2 years of experience with aws, jenkins, docker, kubernetes, sdlc, cicd pipeline
- 1-2 years of experience with relational database technologies such as postgresql
- 2-3 years of experience working with service-oriented architectures
- 1-2 years of experience working with kafka
- knowledge of test methodologies and working experience writing excellent test plans and test reports
- proactive, have passion in testing, love challenges, quick learner, detail oriented, analytical, problem solver with “get the work done” attitude
- minimum bs degree in computer science or a related technical field
*about appen*
appen is the global leader in data for the ai lifecycle. With over 25 years of experience in data sourcing, data annotation, and model evaluation by humans, we enable organizations to launch the world’s most innovative artificial intelligence systems. Our expertise includes a global crowd of over 1 million skilled contractors who speak over 235 languages, in over 70,000 locations and 170 countries, and the industry’s most advanced ai-assisted data annotation platform. Our products and services give leaders in technology, automotive, financial services, retail, healthcare, and governments the confidence to launch world-class ai products. Founded in 1996, appen has customers and offices globally.
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