Software QA Architect

OUR COMPANY

Celigo is one of the fastest growing, Silicon Valley profitable & funded startup companies pioneering the  future of cloud-based application integration with its Integrator.io iPaaS platform and pre-built Integration  Apps. Over 3500 companies rely on Celigo to synchronize data, automate processes, and streamline  operations by integrating their cloud applications. Our Integrator.io iPaaS platform offers a simple and  powerful platform through a guided user interface, integration templates, and other tools that empower  both business users and IT to easily integrate any of their cloud applications. Our core mission at Celigo  is simple: to enable independent best-of-breed applications to work together as one. We believe that  every independent department and every business end-user should always have choices when it comes  to picking software, and that integration challenges should never stand in the way. 

We are full of fresh ideas with like-minded people offering opportunities to highly-talented individuals  committed to working with the highest quality products in the area of business cloud computing (SaaS). 

Location - Hyderabad, India.

OPPORTUNITY

• Celigo is looking for a rockstar quality engineering architect who will be responsible for the Quality of Celigo Product suite, leading new and existing Quality Engineering initiatives. 
• Will be instrumental in championing quality engineering process improvement, software test strategies, driving test methodologies and automation across the products.
• Validates quality processes by establishing product specifications and quality attributes; measuring production; documenting evidence.
• Develop quality assurance plans by conducting hazard analyses; identifying critical control points and preventive measures; establishing critical limits, monitoring procedures, corrective actions, and verification procedures.
• Should have the drive to improve the job knowledge by constantly studying trends in and developments in quality management.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Design and architect modular, reusable, scalable functional and non-functional test automation tools/frameworks with latest tools and technologies 
• Review, define and implement test strategies to make sure we don’t compromise on the quality of the product. Wherever possible influence teams to adopt best testing strategies.
• Collaborate effectively with engineers and architects to solve complex problems spanning their respective areas to deliver end-to-end quality in our technology and customer experience
• Actively participate and contribute in functional, system, performance, and regression testing activities
• Work closely with the development team to analyze, debug and resolve any issues
• Work closely with the test team to identify new automation opportunities to improve product quality. 
• Collaborate with DevOps team to integrate quality into in CI/CD pipeline with shift-left approach 
• Regularly meet with Product Managers, services & support leads to identify bottlenecks or gaps in the process and work on enhancing them
• Work with Customer Success team on customer escalations and the overall process to provide the right guidance both to internal & external stakeholders
• Design and develop test plans; test cases based upon functional and design specifications
• Influence development managers to insure appropriate levels of quality on owned technologies
• Ensure the team follows various auditing processes and meets the compliance standards
• Hire, train and mentor new joiners
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal), with specific experience and demonstrable success with the full software development lifecycle; and using the Agile Development processes
• Estimate and perform risk analysis for large features

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED

• Bachelors in Engineering or Technology in an industry related field
• 9 - 15 years of working experience in QA for a large-scale Product development organization 
• Strong experience in designing and implementing automation framework from scratch for performing REST API, UI and API testing to test different layers of products with different tools
• Possess strong experience in software test automation, test planning, test design, functional and performance testing
• Should have good attitude and strong aptitude and passion for software quality with a focus on continuous improvement
• Strong hands-on experience
• using Selenium Web Driver with Java or similar language 
• using Rest API testing tools like Karate or similar tool
• Unit testing frameworks for node (Ex: Jest/Mocha) and java (Ex: Junit/TestNG) applications 
• Cucumber BDD framework
• JMeter or any other performance testing tool
• JIRA, Confluence and Zephyr
• Python and other tools
• Solid understanding of cloud native technologies and well versed with AWS cloud platform, service mesh (Istio/Linkerd), Kubernetes, Dockers/Containers, Cloud log services (Splunk)
• Experience testing microservices architecture-based product in functionality, sizing, resiliency, rolling deployment and upgrade
• Expertise with continuous integration tools like Jenkins, Travis CI or similar tools
• Knowledge on Chaos Monkey/Gremlin for Resiliency Testing
• Knowledge/Experience testing Kafka and MongoDB based applications.
• Experience working in an Agile development environment.
• Self motivated, able to work proficiently both independently and in a team environment

THE BEST CANDIDATE IS

• Passion to become a world-class software organization.
• Experience architecting quality assurance and testing strategies for large-scale distributed platforms.
• Enjoys a fast-paced environment, working with a highly-talented team and shifting priorities.
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
• Ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders and key partners for the program
• Strong business and technical vision. 
• Can stay abstract or detail oriented as the situation demands
• Demonstrated ability of thinking big, bringing new ideas, building teams & infrastructure for the future.
• Learn quickly. Must know when to listen, and when to take charge.