Senior Software Test Engineer

This position is based in Bangalore, India.
Calix is seeking a Staff Software Test Engineer to join our team. We are focusing on implementing automation and quality early in the development process. We are creating a new team, with the goal of establishing standards for test planning, biasing towards automation and to establish best practices and improve the quality of our products and to delight our customers.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Responsible for defining QA strategy, architecture and execution for all product lines across Software, Web and Mobile.
• Bring high energy, effectiveness at managing relationships (up, down, across), and ability to roll-up your sleeves to get the job done.
• Design and develop advanced test suites using object-oriented methodologies. Implement and execute test strategies on all supported platforms and languages to help improve overall quality and test code coverage.
• Design, implement and execute both functional and Automation test suites. Write backend integration tests and tests for RESTful APIs.Interact with stakeholders to gather insights and translate technical concepts
• Document procedures for process control, process improvement, testing and CI/CD.
• Develop new test frameworks for data pipeline validation and streaming data processing.
• Ability to identify risks and errors in applications and tools
• Work collaboratively with development and the QA team to identify test cases and suites best suited for automation
• Design and develop integration, regression, and stress tests using industry standard tools.
• Collaborate with Product Owners and Developers to understand requirements and translate them into test cases.
• Good knowledge of Web/UI testing.

Qualifications:

• BS/MS degree in CS, EE, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience as a test engineer with focus on both manual and automated testing.
• 3+ years of experience and deep understanding of programming in Python, GoLang or other languages.
• 3+ years of experience in Automated Testing Framework, Selenium, Rest APIs using PyTest/ROBOT.
• Working knowledge of micro-services based API and load testing tools.
• Experience working in a Cloud Ecosystem like AWS or Azure.
• Experience working on Network Management Systems.
• Good exposure of Kubernetes, Docker, Elastic Search, Kibana, Grafana, Prometheus.
• Knowledge of Kafka, Redis, Postgres, PrestoDB, etc.
• Proven track record in leading the architecture, design, development and operations of enterprise scale testing frameworks, processes, methodologies for diverse environments, solutions, and products.
• Proficiency in QA methodologies, software testing principles, concepts, verification/ validation techniques, and test management.
• Excellent analytical, research, documentation, project planning and implementation skills.
• Knowledge of behaviour driven development and test driven development
• Experience with Dev Ops Pipeline (CI and CD), Bamboo/Jenkins
• Ability to adapt and willingness to learn new technologies and techniques.
• Effectively lead and manage change within their area of responsibility as well as across the business.
• Experience using various bug tracking tools such as Jira, and test management tools such as TestRail or XRay.
• Experience testing BigData and ELT is a plus.
• Telecom Experience is a plus.