About the position
About Gartner IT: Join a world-class team of skilled engineers who build creative digital solutions to support our colleagues and clients. We make a broad organizational impact by delivering cutting-edge technology solutions that power Gartner. Gartner IT values its culture of nonstop innovation, an outcome-driven approach to success, and the notion that great ideas can come from anyone on the team. About this role: The Senior Test Engineer position design, build, review, execution, and automation of test cases and demonstrates expertise in all areas of testing.
Responsibilities
• Develop test plans, strategies and ensure the development & execution of test cases meet project goals and QA standards.
• Lead functional testing of new requirements and enhancements of applications.
• Maintenance of regression test suite and driving the test execution.
• Identify, track, and prioritize defects with right severities; work collaboratively with technical teams to resolve issues swiftly and effectively.
• Ensure the overall quality, reliability, and performance of products by managing the design, execution, and reporting of testing activities, including functional and non-functional testing like performance, DB and API testing.
• Ensure delivery against Quality Engineering department goals and objectives, meeting commitments.
• Provide clear and detailed status, including metrics, assess and mitigate risks to ensure timely delivery of excellent quality.
• Implement best practices, including a variety of different testing protocols, tools, and metrics.
• Drive innovation and integration of modern technologies into frameworks and activities in the software test architecture to increase the performance and efficiency of the Quality Engineering department.
Requirements
• Strong exposure on Manual/Feature testing along with strong automation experience in UI, API, and DB automation.
• Experience in development of new test framework.
• Hands on experience in implementation of automation test solutions and maintenance to ease out manual testing.
• Experience in CI/CD tools, such as Jenkins/Gitlab to help building / configuring continuous integration tool to reduce testing cycle.
• Sound knowledge of methodologies and approaches such as Agile, DevOps, etc.
• Strong IT professional with 5-7 years of experience in software testing (websites and/or mobile applications).
• The candidate should have strong qualitative and quantitative critical thinking skills along with high on ownership and accountability.
• 5+ years of experience in QA, handling all testing activities independently.
• Experience implementing and executing defined standards for manual and automated testing.
• Experience leading automation scripting and expertise in JavaScript.
• Experience with test automation tool such as Playwright.
• Experience in estimation, prioritization, and planning/coordination of QA activities in a Scrum environment
• Proficiency optimizing test case management and defect management software and processes, including JIRA.
• Solid experience in SQL queries and database testing.
• Strong attention to details, end-user quality, and usability
• Experience in developing/maintaining Test automation frameworks.
• Experience in integrating test suites with tools in the DevOps/CICD pipelines - GIT, Jenkins, etc.
• Self-motivator and excellent problem solver
• Excellent communication and prioritization skills.
• Able to work independently or within a team proactively in a fast-paced AGILE-SCRUM environment.
• Owns success – Takes responsibility for successful delivery of the solutions.
• Ardent desire to improve upon their skills in software development, frameworks, and technologies.
Nice-to-haves
• Hands on experience in JUnit, TestNG, JMeter, Cucumber, Appium, Postman.
• Hands on exposure to AI driven testing
• Experience in Disaster Recovery (DR) testing
• Hands on experience with cloud service platforms is a plus (Azure or AWS)
• Deep knowledge of design patterns, best code practices and automation industry trends, as well as Continuous Integration concepts and tools.
• Experience with Performance, and Mobile testing
• Experience using various bug tracking tools such as Jira and test management tools such as Xray, AIO.
Benefits
• Limitless growth and learning opportunities.
• Ongoing mentorship and apprenticeship; Leadership courses, development programs, technical courses, certification opportunities and more!
• A collaborative and positive culture - join a diverse team of professionals that are as smart and driven as you.
• A chance to make an impact – your work will contribute directly to our strategy.
• Hybrid Work Environment - enjoy the flexibility of working from home and the energy of collaborating with peers in our dynamic offices.
• 20+ PTO days plus holidays and floating holidays in your first year.
• Extensive medical, dental insurance and vision plan.
• 401K with corporate match, immediate vesting.
• Health-and-wellness-related allowance programs.
• Parental leave.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Gartner Gives Charity Match.