QA Tester

Job Description

Job Summary 

The Senior Software Developer leads the development effort within a dynamic development team of developers, testers and a dev team lead who all share a common goal: building highly reliable systems that can handle huge loads. The Senior Software Developer gets the opportunity to develop and design enterprise technology solutions that are scalable, relevant and critical to our company's success.

Job Responsibilities 

• Work on significant  critical projects with limited or no supervision 
• Own your code from creation all the way to production
• Automate and execute tests at all test level 
• Create database scripts to manipulate data and define database structure 
• Major role in architecture design that solve business problems 
• Understanding of enterprise technology integration 
• Mastery in core technologies and tools 
• Play an active role in the Agile process - release planning, backlog refinement, planning, reviewing, retrospectives, estimation 
• Contribute towards continuous improvement of development team processes 
• Effective communication with other development, support and business teams  
• Mentor other members of the development team 
• Demonstrate good analytical skills 
• Drive innovation through research into new tech 
• An understanding of overall company organization and business 
• Demonstrates initiative and integrity in all aspects of work 
• Provide production support for applications owned by the development team 

Job Requirements 

• Minimum of 5 years relevant Software Development experience 

Skills  

• Test automation 
• Database queries, structure definition 
• Web presentation technologies 
• Dependency management tooling 
• Source code version control technologies 
• Application Logging 
• Linux/Unix 
• Software Design 
• Design Patterns 
• Software Testing 
• Communication 
• Teamwork
• Experience with large distributed, scalable systems 
• Debugging production issues 
• Experience with testing strategies and approaches 
• Researching new tech 
• Experience with some (or equivalent) of the below technologies 
• Java, Node, Javascript, Scala, Kotlin
• React, Angular Spring Framework 
• Kubernetes, Docker, Docker-compose 
• Junit, Mockito, WireMock, MockServer, Serenity, Contract Testing, FitNesse
• Oracle DB, Postgres, MySQL, Redis, Cassandra, Terradata 
• Understanding of messaging and/or eventing system design and technologies (JMS, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Apache Pulsar, ActiveMQ) 
• Hadoop, HDFS, Pig, Oozie, Spark 
• AWS, Azure, GCP cloud services, Terraform 
• Tomcat, Jetty 
• REST API design 
• Knowledge of data structures and algorithms 
• Strong self-organisation skills 
• Splunk, Grafana, AppDynamics