Company Description
At Nielsen, we are passionate about our work to power a better media future for all people by providing powerful insights that drive client decisions and deliver extraordinary results. Our talented, global workforce is dedicated to capturing audience engagement with content - wherever and whenever it’s consumed. Together, we are proudly rooted in our deep legacy as we stand at the forefront of the media revolution. When you join Nielsen, you will join a dynamic team committed to excellence, perseverance, and the ambition to make an impact together. We champion you, because when you succeed, we do too. We enable your best to power our future.The QA Leader is responsible for formulating test strategies, designing test plans and test cases for the QA team as well as executing tests to validate the application is working as required by the business. This position provides clear and concise feedback to management on the production readiness of the software being tested, ensuring that Nielsen systems meet the highest standard of quality that is practical to obtain.
Requirements
- Graduate in Computer Engineering or Computer Science (or similar degrees)
- Ability to communicate in English, able to work in a team
- Experience with tools like JIRA and Software Development and Collaboration tools such as Confluence
- Plan for test teams and environments to have the right tools (manual and / or automated) in place enabling ability to deliver consistent and quality output
- Assist testers in test planning
Support other test team members for the implementation of testing related activities
- Previous experience as QA Lead
Skills
- Strong testing, functional, analytical and technical abilities, ability to find bugs, attention to detail, troubleshooting, able to document in details tests performed
- Basic knowledge of database management, SQL, Microsoft SQL Server and administration tasks
- Detail oriented
- Review requirements, specifications and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback
- Execute, estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activities
- Identify the testable requirements and prepare the test strategy for each of the testing types identified
- Experience in test planning, design and execution
- Maintain and evolve formal QA testing processes for a software development team
- Monitor the effectiveness of testing and bring about improvements through insights gained via analysis
- Exposure to stress, reliability, and performance testing
Preferred
- Experience with highly critical production environments. Understanding the importance of production environments (test, deploy)
- Test automation (GUI , web and windows app)
- Experience in writing unit/integration tests including test automation.
- Improve product quality by identifying, implementing, and using automated testing tools and frameworks
- Strong analytical and communication skills
- Java/J2EE experience on Linux platform
- Familiarity with Hadoop Java software development
- Familiarity with a messaging bus, such as AMQ and Kafka
- SQL Programming (PostgreSQL)
- Experienced in building RESTful APIs.
- Work with web technology including AWS, Docker, Java, Python,, JavaScript, React/Redux.
Additional Information
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