QA Test Engineer

Nielsen is seeking an organized, detail oriented, team player, to join the ITAM Back Office Engineering team in the role of Test Engineer. Nielsen’s Audience Measurement Engineering platforms support the measurement of television viewing in more than 30 countries around the world. Ideal candidates will have exceptional skills in programming, testing, debugging and problem solving as well as effective communication and writing skills. 

Required Skills:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer or Electrical/Electronic Engineering or equivalent
• 3+ years relevant work experience in manual and automated tests .
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• Strong testing and debugging abilities, functional, analytical and technical abilities, ability to find bugs, attention to detail, troubleshooting .
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• Ability to communicate in English (conduct written and spoken daily conversations with English speakers from 30+ countries around the world.. Effective communication and writing skills are a must .
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• Experience with tools like JIRA and Software Development and Collaboration tools such as Confluence
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• Desire to be deeply involved in product supplementation and automation .
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• Appreciation for and commitment to clean, reusable and well-tested code, architecture, and documentation .
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• Strong analytical skills and sense of technical creativity
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• Excellent debugging and problem solving skills
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• Detail oriented with a commitment to innovation
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• SQL Programming (PostgreSQL), database management
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• Experienced in building RESTful APIs.
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• Experience in writing unit/integration tests including test automation.

Mandatory Skills:

• Automation & Manual Testing
• Java
• Python