Quality Assurance Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Test Planning and Execution: Design and execute manual and automated test plans and test cases to validate deployment pack functionality.
• Integration Testing: Validate integration between Cognite Data Fusion (CDF) components and third-party systems within the deployment packs.
• Simulation of Customer Scenarios: Simulate real-world customer scenarios in staging environments to proactively identify and address issues before deployment.
• Customer Deployment Participation: Participate in customer deployments to verify real-world execution of use cases, ensuring the solutions are error-free and meet customer expectations.
• Collaboration with Stakeholders: Work closely with solution architects, developers, and customer teams to align on requirements and expectations for the solution.
• Bug Reporting and Issue Tracking: Report bugs and issues using tools like Jira, and suggest enhancements to improve the quality of the deployment packs.
• Test Automation: Develop and maintain automated test scripts to improve regression coverage and enhance CI/CD validation processes.
• Root-Cause Analysis: Conduct root-cause analysis for defects, providing timely resolutions and feedback to the development team.
• Documentation: Maintain thorough documentation of test cases, test results, and release sign-offs to ensure transparency and traceability.
• Continuous Improvement: Contribute to the continuous improvement of QA processes, test frameworks, and deployment validation methodologies.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• Experience: 2-5 years of QA experience, particularly in software or SaaS environments, ideally within industrial or data platforms.
• Test Planning and Execution: Hands-on experience with test planning, execution, bug tracking, and test automation tools.
• Technical Skills: Strong understanding of REST APIs, Python scripting, and data validation techniques.
• Cloud Platforms: Familiarity with cloud platforms like Azure, AWS, or GCP, and DevOps concepts.
• Testing Frameworks: Experience with tools like Postman, PyTest, Selenium, or equivalent testing frameworks.
• Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with high attention to detail.
• Collaboration and Communication: Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate across geographically distributed teams.
• Customer-Facing Experience: Experience in customer-facing roles or project delivery is highly advantageous.

Preferred Attributes

• Exposure to CDF: Prior exposure to Cognite Data Fusion (CDF) or other industrial data platforms is a plus.
• Agile/Scrum: Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Test Suite Maintenance: Passion for clean, maintainable, and well-documented test suites.
• Self-Driven: Self-driven, proactive, and capable of managing responsibilities with minimal supervision.