Nielsen Hiring for Software Testing Engineer

Location: Chennai
Experience: 3-5 years
Role: Tester
Skills: Test Automation Strategy

Job Purpose

  • This position is
    • Critical position and the responsible person should have good expertise in functional, non- functional, white box, integration and reliability testing for web-based applications keeping automation and self-service in mind
    • Drive adoption of quality practices early in the life cycle through improved unit testing and code coverage, pre-Integration test automation
    • Very good understanding and hands-on automation experience on automation frameworks, scripting, etc. Should design and implement robust, scalable, and high-quality test automation suites

    Job Responsibilities

    • Defining the testing activities for subordinates – developers, testers or test engineers.
    • All responsibilities of test planning.
    • To check if the team has all the necessary resources to execute the testing activities.
    • Develop test cases and prioritize testing activities.
    • Execute all the test case and report defects, define severity and priority for each defect.
    • Carry out regression testing every time when changes are made to the code to fix defects.
    • Automate Regression testing scripts for cleaner & faster execution of test cases
    • Good knowledge on automation testing frameworks like TestNg/Selenium
    • Knowledge on tools like JIRA, Zephyr etc.,
    • Experience of configuration management tools (GIT), configuration concepts and  continues integration tools (Jenkins / Bamboo)

    Role Requirements:

    •  3-5 years of IT experience
    • Experience working with onshore and offshore vendor partners

    Needed skill set (Essential):

    • Test Automation Frameworks(Test NG/Selenium etc.,), Scripting
    • Able to write Test Plan, Test Cases & capture results
    • Knowledge of Tools like JIRA, Zephyr etc.,
    • Autonomous

    Appreciated skill set:

    • Agile methodology
    • Basic knowledge on Java
    • GIT, Jenkins etc.,