QA Automation Engineer Lisboa

QA Automation Engineer
Lisboa
Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

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The Nielsen
IQ BASES' mission is to help companies successfully innovate in a competitive market context. We use market data, predictive models, and market research services to provide our client organizations with valuable advice on how to innovate. In order to provide an insightful service, we use a vast range of technology and software that are mostly developed internally, together with some of our partners. This is a key asset for our business. In order to keep innovating in the technology area, we are now establishing three Global Technology Centres: US, India, and Portugal. The new European Technology Centre in Portugal has a mission to be part of the global team that develops our core technology solutions, but it is also in a great location to support our Nielsen
IQ European business.

Job Description

We are seeking a skilled and experienced Senior QA Automation Engineer to join our Technology Center in Portugal. You will join a local team that is part of a wider international development team spanning the US, Portugal, and India. In this role, you’ll be contributing to the quality assurance of our core market research application, while also having the opportunity to help us develop our global QA practice.

Join us and play a pivotal role in ensuring the highest quality standards for our innovative products, while working in a dynamic and collaborative global environment.

What you’ll do

• Responsible for the Product Quality of Major features & Minor Releases.
• Understand requirements and scope
• Identify inconsistencies and gaps in requirements and communicate with Product Owner
• Serve as a Quality Assurance Engineer on teams that will execute projects from beginning to end, including working with product management, gathering requirements, brainstorming solutions, testing final applications
• Maintain knowledge of the architecture of the platform and product features
• Maintain complete functional knowledge of the product
• Create and execute manual functional test cases
• Identify test cases for automation & discuss the most efficient type of automation for identified cases
• Design, Create and Execute automated functional test cases
• Design, Create and Execute automated
  - functional test cases (performance, Resiliency, Guardrails, Backwards compatibility)
• Log defects and coordinate with developers to resolve them
• Setup and maintain test data
• Work closely with other teams for
  - functional requirements and collaboration
• Participate in design and code reviews
• Address areas of improvement in the automation framework and workflows
• Identify and implement QA processes in support of providing quality products.
• Educate new hires and team members on application, tools, technologies, processes
• Follow community best practices and team SDLC guidelines

We’re looking for people who have

• Accountable - Always executes at a high level regardless of undertaking
• Analytical - Examines multiple sources of information to assess problems/opportunities
• Creative - Explores multiple, different, new and unfamiliar approaches as potential solutions
• Customer Focused - Listens and asks questions to understand customer needs and evaluate situations
• Collaborative - Openly and proactively shares perspectives and challenges ideas
• Communication skills - Effective oral and written communication
• Detail Oriented
• Learning business and technical subject matter
• Shows initiative
• In-team influencing ability
• Cultivates initiative in teammates

Qualifications

• 3 to 5 years of QA automation experience
• MS/BS in Software Engineering or related discipline

Technical skills:

• Hands-on experience in test automation tools like Playwright, Selenium or Protractor
• Knowledge in at least one programming or scripting language
• Experience with Object-Oriented design and development
• Strong test validation and test debugging skills
• Strong understanding of Software Quality Assurance (SQA) concepts and practices to continually assess the risks and quality of products and releases.
• Experience in Database testing
• Experience working with Cloud-based applications is nice to have
• Experience working in an
  - offshore model
• Familiarity working in an Agile-Scrum environment and software production release process
• Excellent interpersonal skills

Additional Information

ABOUT NIELSEN We’re in tune with what the world is watching, buying, and everything in between. If you can think of it, we’re measuring it. We sift through the small stuff and piece together big pictures to provide a comprehensive understanding of what’s happening now and what’s coming next for our clients. Today’s data is tomorrow’s marketplace revelation.

Nielsen is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action-Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability status, age, marital status, protected veteran status or any other protected class.

• Flexible working environment
• Volunteer time off