Position: Junior QA Automation Engineer for Analytic Management Software
Company: Brightgrove
Experience required: 1y
Category: QA Automation
English level: intermediate
Published: 2021-02-01T00:00:00+02:00

**About the Client**
Our customer is innovating US-based company with exciting expertise in big data, analytics, and software development that established a new category of software called Analytic Management. Client provides the only active analytic catalog for data analysts, data engineers, data scientists, and business users, enabling them to interact with their data and analytic code in a whole new way. 

We’re a naturally curious team that loves working together. We’re dedicated to our customers, building an analytic management movement together, which will be the key to how businesses win in the future.

**About the Project**
We have a mature and evolving system for DevOps using Git, Nexus, Jenkins, Maven, and Junit. These integrate with our data center and cloud infrastructure through Cloudbreak and Cloudera Director to provision Hadoop clusters on-demand for automated testing. 

Our software deeply integrates with and leverages some of the hottest components of the big data and analytics space such as Spark, Hive, Tez, Sqoop and others.

**About the Team**
The whole development team of 14 people is concentrated in our Kharkiv office. The team consists of Java, Scala, JS, .Net, SQL Developers and QA Engineers. All developers are highly qualified, 70% of the team are Seniors.

**Responsibilities**
Your primary focus will be on automated testing of our desktop and web applications which provide tooling for enterprise class data systems both on-prem and in the cloud. Examples include Amazon Redshift, Microsoft Azure Data Warehouse, and Microsoft SQL Server. You will also coordinate with the rest of the engineering team working on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and quality product is important.

- Develop and maintain automated end-to-end and integration tests, test data, SQL validation scripts
- Perform manual testing
- Estimate, prioritize and plan testing activities
- Identify, document and track bugs
- Conduct thorough regression testing when bugs are fixed
- Identify software testing risks and escalate potential quality issues to management

**Required Skills:**
- BS in Computer Science or related technical discipline or equivalent practical experience
- 1,5+ years in software quality assurance with at least 1+ years experience in development automated tests
- Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes
- Good understanding of Git is preferable
- Expertise in database testing including designing and manipulating test data
- Expertise in at least one of programming language (Java, JavaScript or TypeScript)
- Hands-on experience with Rest API testing
- Experience working in an Agile development environment

**Nice to have Skills:**
- Hands-on experience with developing UI automated tests using Cypress framework
- Understanding of CICD pipeline
- Hands-on experience with Docker