Senior Technical Specialist - QA/Automation

About SISC

SISC is Global Capability Centre providing end to end technology solutions and high value services for global business organizations of Sony. We are a team of passionate engineers working on latest technologies, making direct/in-direct contributions to Sony’s products such as TV, PlayStation, Professional Camcorders, Imaging Devices, Media players, Mobile phones, Home entertainment systems, and much more.

Job position: Senior Technical Specialist - QA/Automation

Domain, Technology and Sub-technology

• Testing & Automation
• Python Selenium framework

Base Location

• Bengaluru

Type

• Hybrid

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Engineering/ Masters in Computer Science (OR) any equivalent degree
• 9 - 12 years of experience
• Atleast 2 ~ 3 years of experience in leading QA/Automation team

Job Overview

Responsible for quality engineering of web applications on non-desktop environment through automation which involves leading QA team with requirements on Testing, Automation & develop automation solutions for continuous improvement

Should work closely with the multiple stakeholders across product development including business, design, development & peer QA teams and collaborate to bring in best practices to the team.

Primary Skills

• Strong experience in end to end QA & Automation cycle of software development
• Good experience & knowledge in web/mobile application UI automation using Python (and any other programming/ scripting languages) & related tools/packages (like selenium/appium)
• Good exposure to different testing methodologies & QA exposure and any standard test framework (like pytest, unittest etc)
• Demonstrated experience with increasingly complex projects
• Proven experience in communicating with external & internal customers, stake holders and technically lead a QA/Automation team
• Self-driven, Accountability and ownership of problems to achieve team goals & ability to collaborate across different teams

Good to have Skills

• Knowledge on CI/CD & DevOps

Responsibilities and Duties

• Technically lead atleast 6-8 members QA team with hands-on & deliver results
• Understand the application/domain end to end, take ownership of group of applications for Quality using existing automation frameworks & solutions
• Build deeper understanding of product/application & proactively identify areas to improve quality of product through automation
• Drive the team to improve efficiency of automation & demonstrate continuous improvement
• Analyze automation execution failures in end to end CI/CD system, identify insights on software quality
• Proactively identify areas of improvement in automation, framework, tools continuously and develop new automation solutions
• Collaborate with developers, QA engineers & resolve blockers independently
• Ready to work with teams in US & attend nightly meetings

Keywords

• Quality, Automation, Mentor, Lead, Python, Selenium, Appium, Development, tests/ test scripts