Quality Engineer - Backend Testing

We are looking for a Quality Engineer to help in our transformation journey as we decommission legacy applications and move to our modern platform that is based on event driven architecture and employs cutting edge technologies such as Golang, Docker, Kafka and Postgres. This platform is highly scalable and capable of supporting up to 10,000 TPS.

Key Responsibilities:

• Understand the Loyalty and Benefits domain and how it powers the AMEX experience for customers
• Learn and support our legacy applications and modern platforms to develop a deep understanding of all functional workflows.
• Work closely with product owners and/or other technology counterparts globally as needed to further our initiatives targeting business growth, cost savings, platform maintenance and platform modernization.
• Participate in agile development processes including sprint planning, stand-ups, demos and retrospectives
• Ability to come up with multiple test automation framework solutions, present pros and cons and influence stakeholders towards a technical solution
•  Be actively involved in test automation low level design, coding, code reviews and unit and E2E testing in. Assist with production deployment and ensure smooth CI/CD pipeline process.
• Deploy multiple needed components in test environment and perform test execution (automated and manual)
• Co-ordinate delivery of the project across global teams. Manage risk through all stages of project life cycle.
• Be a role model for engineering excellence within the team driving adoption of CICD and DevOps practices.
• Take ownership and lead initiatives. This could also involve leading a small team of quality engineers.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experience required with at least 5 years of experience in software quality assurance
• Delivered complex projects where complexity is a function of domain knowledge required, technical implementation and stakeholders.
• •Ability to independently work with product and business to gather requirements, write test cases and come up with test data needs.
• Experience in converting BDD scenarios to detailed manual test cases with required validation steps
• Experience in test automation using Go, Godog , cucumber or other BDD frameworks. Exposure to container-based technologies (docker, Kubernetes), GIT, Jenkins, TDD/BDD, mocking frameworks, CICD gates on security, code coverage and code quality.
• Experience with distributed systems, micro services architecture (REST) and messaging services such as Kafka.
• Experience working with relational/NoSQL databases
• Ability to work in a team environment as well as independently
• Commitment to write clean maintainable code with good documentation practices