Principal QA Engineer

At Skillsoft, we believe skills fuel growth. Our mission is to empower every organization and every learner to turn constant change into continuous growth. As part of the team, your skills will help organizations understand what skills they have, what they need next, and how to apply them in ways that drive real performance and progress.

Skillsoft is seeking a QA/Automation Engineer looking for an opportunity to work in a fast paced and fun environment! Join us at our office in Hyderabad where we just got started with building our next generation SaaS AI-Native platform with a goal of being the “best in the industry”. We believe that our customers deserve the best platform and we are delivering on those needs with the platform you will be working on. You could be the one to help us achieve this goal!

We are seeking exceptional automation expert(s) to join our team. Using Selenium, JAVA and Cucumber, and a variety of other JavaScript technologies, successful candidates will be part of enabling Automation for our product on SaaS platform. We’re looking for people who love to stay on top of the latest and greatest technologies and patterns. Our engineers need to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to tackle new problems as we continue to push our technology forward.

Responsibilities

• Lead QA efforts to Deliver across the entire app life cycle –concept, design, build, deploy, test using leading-edge automation frameworks such as Selenium, Cucumber and API Testing

• Build reusable prototypes with out-of-the-box thinking

• Working along with different squads to create and maintain a robust QA framework

• Working with the front end developers to develop test strategy as a part of CI/CD

• Keep up to date on the latest industry trends in different Automation frameworks

• Gathering requirements, automation design, technical leadership, support API automation capabilities

• Engagements will include validating UAT for different areas of Testing

Required Knowledge and Skills

• 8+ years of professional Testing and engineering experience in a Product development organization

• Experience in Developing, creating, prioritizing, and organizing test cases into logical suites for execution for Web/mobile applications

• Ability to write detailed test cases and clear and concise bug reports

• Familiarity with defect tracking systems and test management tools

• Professional experience with web technologies such as HTML5, & CSS (JavaScript is preferred)

• Automation experience in Selenium, Java, API, Cucumber, SOAPUI, RestAssured, Playwright

• Experience in working with DB queries(Added Advantage)

• Skills and experience with code versioning tools, preferably Git (GitHub, Gitlab etc.) and the feature branch workflow

• Recent experience with automation tools like Npm, Webpack, Grunt, Bower etc. preferable((Added Advantage)

• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment

MORE ABOUT SKILLSOFT:

Skillsoft (NYSE: SKIL) is a global leader in AI-native skills management for the human + AI era. By unifying learning, real-time skills intelligence, and workforce insights, Skillsoft helps enterprises build their Skillforce™ — humans and AI working together to drive measurable business outcomes. Through personalized, interactive learning across leadership, technology, and compliance, Skillsoft enables organizations to close critical skill gaps and accelerate transformation. Skillsoft is trusted by thousands of organizations worldwide, including 60% of the Fortune 1000, and supports a global community of more than 105 million learners. Learn more at skillsoft.com.

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