QA Automation Engineer

QA Automation Engineer

Kathmandu 44600, Nepal

Full-time

Verisk Business: Verisk Analytics

Company Description

We help the world see new possibilities and inspire change for better tomorrows. Our analytic solutions bridge content, data, and analytics to help business, people, and society become stronger, more resilient, and sustainable.

Job Description

Responsibilities:

• Act as QA lead on a wide variety of projects.
• Lead analysis for the purposes of developing test cases and test data for search intense back-end data applications in such a way that defects are uncovered as early as possible.
• Clearly define test plans, scenarios, scripts, and procedures.
• Perform hands-on manual testing while scripting automated tests to ensure application functionality, performance and security.
• Identify and write clean, high-quality automation scripts that test product UI and backend functionality.
• Continuously develop and socialize best practices for the design and development of robust and easily maintainable QA Automation Suites.
• Serve as a liaison to business analyst and product owner, providing feedback on application readiness for migrations.
• Be involved in all phases of the agile software development lifecycle.
• Conduct various tests for systems integration, UI, applications, databases, API.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (developers, product managers, QA Team, DevOps, DBA) to formulate validation plan and automation enhancements.
• Take part in brainstorms to come up with new ideas and designs that improve existing features.

Qualifications

Experience Required: 1 to 5 years of professional experience in Software Quality Assurance and Test Automation

Technical Expertise:

• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming.
• Good knowledge of any programming language like JAVA, C# or Python.
• Experience with Web/UI automation tool – Selenium Webdriver with C# or Java.
• Experience in API & performance testing using Apache JMeter.
• Experience with Data Validation testing.
• Knack for writing clean, readable, and easily maintainable QA automation workflows.
• Experience in testing web services such as RESTful API
• Proficient in SQL and relational database concepts and formats such as XML and JSON with experience in testing non-GUI applications 
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tool and familiarity with Continuous Integration atmosphere would be a plus.
• Knowledge of AWS services would be a strong plus point.

Skills and Knowledge:

• Passion to work and grow as a QA automation Engineer.
• Ability to analyze acceptance criteria and discuss scenarios with team with a goal of identifying possible issues upfront even before the feature is developed.
• Ability to build automated test scripts, plan tests and strategies according to the project.
• Thorough and disciplined, ability to analyze a problem and weight severity of the issue.
• Dedicated worker skilled at collaborating in a team setting
• Proven excellent problem-solving and analytic skills.
• Demonstrated excellent communication skills.
• Familiarity with Agile workflow as well as Atlassian Jira and Confluence.
• Education Level: Bachelor’s in Computer Science, or related field or equivalent experience.

Additional Information

For over 50 years, Verisk has been the leading data analytics and technology partner to the global insurance industry by delivering value to our clients through expertise and scale. We empower communities and businesses to make better decisions on risk, faster.

At Verisk, you'll have the chance to use your voice and build a rewarding career that's as unique as you are, with work flexibility and the support, coaching, and training you need to succeed. 

For the eighth consecutive year, Verisk is proudly recognized as a Great Place to Work® for outstanding workplace culture in the US, fourth consecutive year in the UK, Spain, and India, and second consecutive year in Poland.  We value learning, caring and results and make inclusivity and diversity a top priority.  In addition to our Great Place to Work® Certification, we’ve been recognized by The Wall Street Journal as one of the Best-Managed Companies and by Forbes as a World’s Best Employer and Best Employer for Women, testaments to the value we place on workplace culture.

We’re 7,000 people strong.  We relentlessly and ethically pursue innovation. And we are looking for people like you to help us translate big data into big ideas. Join us and create an exceptional experience for yourself and a better tomorrow for future generations.

Verisk Businesses

Underwriting Solutions — provides underwriting and rating solutions for auto and property, general liability, and excess and surplus to assess and price risk with speed and precision

Claims Solutions — supports end-to-end claims handling with analytic and automation tools that streamline workflow, improve claims management, and support better customer experiences

Property Estimating Solutions — offers property estimation software and tools for professionals in estimating all phases of building and repair to make day-to-day workflows the most efficient

Extreme Event Solutions — provides risk modeling solutions to help individuals, businesses, and society become more resilient to extreme events.

Specialty Business Solutions — provides an integrated suite of software for full end-to-end management of insurance and reinsurance business, helping companies manage their businesses through efficiency, flexibility, and data governance

Marketing Solutions — delivers data and insights to improve the reach, timing, relevance, and compliance of every consumer engagement

Life Insurance Solutions – offers end-to-end, data insight-driven core capabilities for carriers, distribution, and direct customers across the entire policy lifecycle of life and annuities for both individual and group.

Verisk Maplecroft — provides intelligence on sustainability, resilience, and ESG, helping people, business, and societies become stronger

Verisk Analytics is an equal opportunity employer.

All members of the Verisk Analytics family of companies are equal opportunity employers. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, veteran's status, age or disability. Verisk’s minimum hiring age is 18 except in countries with a higher age limit subject to applicable law.

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