QA Engineer
Company Summary
First American (India) is a GCC (Global Capability Center) of the First American Financial Corporation (NYSE: FAF) family of companies. FAI is a proud member of the FORTUNE 500 companies and has been amongst the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® list for eight consecutive years. First American Financial Corporation provides comprehensive title insurance, closing/settlement, property data and technology solutions. First American (India) creates quality solutions for its customers by combining software, back office, and knowledge processing operations to fulfill First American's business requirements. Our priorities are our employees, customers, and shareholders - in that order. First American (India) has been ranked amongst India's Best Companies To Work For™ 2023: Listed amongst the Top 100 by Great Place To Work® India, FAI is also certified Best Workplaces for Women and Workplace with Inclusive Practices. First American maintains and curates the industry’s largest property and ownership dataset with over 7 billion document images. Our major platforms and products include: DataTree®, FraudGuard®, RegsData™, TaxSource™ and ACI®. The First American Data & Analytics division boasts more than 20 patents and remains at the forefront of innovation - leveraging technology and data to deliver best-in-class decisioning solutions. Fueled by our industry-leading data and using our technology and proprietary process, our solutions provide lenders, real estate and title companies with actionable insights - enabling them to make better, increasingly automated, decisions.
Job Summary
QA Engineer shall be responsible for understanding the nature of the domain and the business requirement; information required to write test plans and test cases. This Role needs to create, maintain and execute automated test scripts; Analyzing automation execution results; Performing lifecycle testing and identifying system breakage points (investigative, production readiness etc.). Develop & execute test cases in alignment to test strategy
Competencies:
- Understanding production infrastructure, product flow and design
- System requirement specifications, analyzing requirements/seeking inputs for writing test plan, understanding of functional / non-functional requirements & applying accurate probing techniques (Focused group discussions and Interviews) wherever appropriate
- Independently deriving the test cases from the requirements
- Ensuring correctness and completeness of builds by using CM tools and its features (check in, checkout, merge, build, work area, branch, version and release numbering etc.)
- Independently undertaking both functional and non-functional testing
- Understanding software development lifecycle and overall application development space
- Adopting agile framework accurately for a given situation by understanding Agile manifesto and ceremonies
- Assessing and diagnosing issues across the various testing environment
- Using right datasets/files/tools for independent testing; Understanding of functional and non-functional testing
- Identify & manage risk while facilitating project planning & closure through application of metrics
- Understanding of product Architecture and design is an added advantage
Technical Skills:
- Testing principles & methodologies, testing methods (Regression testing, Usability testing, Acceptance Testing, System testing, Performance testing, Load Testing etc.), automation tools/techniques, software testing infrastructure, Continuous Integration / Deployment processes
- OOPS concepts, SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle), Choice of Data structures to be used in design, Problem solving techniques, Functional and Technical design documents (MD050/MD070/HLL etc.), Security framework (Assessing vulnerabilities, Secured Code, SSL/Non-SSL, Vulnerability tests)
- Agile practices, Alternative programming approaches (ADM/Scrum or Xtreme programming, KanBan, Re-factoring), ALM tools (TFS, Stat, Jira, etc.) at work
- Scoping, Scheduling, Resourcing, Effort estimation techniques, Software Development methodologies (AGILE, SCRUM, XP etc.), Work breakdown structures, Gantt charts and similar planning tools, Project requirements and goals, Communication/Escalation procedures, Microsoft Tools such as Visio and Microsoft Project
- Configuration management (CM) concepts/ procedures, Packaging tools such as (MS Build, Installshield etc.), CM tools (TFS, CVS, VSS, Clear Case, Perforce etc.), Power shell scripting, Incident/Problem Management
Educational Qualification and Experience:
Minimum of 15 years of formal education - Graduate / Post Graduate in Computer Science / Information Technology
Professional work experience of 3 to 5 years in QA Automation Testing in C#, Selenium
FAI is committed to create an environment that respects, supports and inspires all individuals. We do not discriminate on the basis of color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation and age. At FAI, we celebrate diversity and believe that an inclusive workforce benefits employees, the organization and our community. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. For more information about our company and dedication to putting People First, check out https://firstam.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/faicareers.