Position: Senior AQA Python Engineer IRC187023
Company: GlobalLogic
Category: QA Automation
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

**Description:**
Our client is one of the United States’ largest high-speed Internet, video and phone providers to residential customers.
We’re looking for a dedicated and passionate QA Automation Engineer to join our cloud networking team. If you have experience building and operating scalable, cloud based, web applications, are excited about impacting millions of users, look no further!
We are building a large scale and high performance cloud based networking service platform that will deliver the next generation of Internet services across private and public networks.

**Requirements:**
• 5+ years in testing Internet or cloud based services and platforms (Linux environment)
• 3+ years in developing test automation frameworks from ground up, including API, UI and Unit test automation
• Strong with at least one programming language: Python
• Strong practical experience with automation of at least one cloud platform (e.g. VMWare, OpenStack, Cloudstack) and at least one automation framework (e.g. Puppet, Chef, CFEngine)
• Passionate and knowledgeable of QA processes and methodology, with ability to create and execute detailed test plans and test cases, perform root cause analysis to identify problems in design and/or implementation.
• Deep understanding of web and networking technologies on server and client side.
• Familiarity with REST/SOAP/JSON APIs
• Solid working knowledge of NoSQL and MySQL databases, Cassandra preferred
• Self-motivated, with excellent oral and written communication skills

**Prefered:**
• Scripting language: Shell, Perl
• System and application performance and load testing knowledge

**Responsibilities:**
As a QA Automation Engineer, you will specialize in developing test strategies and designing, automating, executing and maintaining test plans, test cases, and test environments of a cloud based networking service platform. You will help ensuring highest quality and a successful rollout of the platform that is impacting millions of customers.


• Design and develop test automation and tools, with a focus on maintainability at a large scale
• Analyze requirements, procedures and problems to automate or improve existing test systems
• Develop and maintain test automation frameworks and scripts for platform testing using Python
• Write test cases and detail test scenarios, ensure their completeness, automation and execution
• Lead in the identification and resolution of problems and defects, and help driving to resolution
• Comfortable with collaboration, open communication and reaching across dev, qa, ops and other cross functional teams
• Integrating test automation with build systems, test case management and bug tracking tools