Senior QA Engineer
Donnelley Financial Solutions (NYSE: DFIN) provides software and services that enable clients to communicate with confidence in a complex regulatory environment. With 3,500 employees in 61 locations across 18 countries, we provide thousands of clients globally with innovative tools for content creation, management and distribution, as well as data analytics and multi-lingual translations services. Leveraging advanced technology, deep-domain expertise and 24/7 support, we deliver cost-effective solutions to meet the evolving needs of our clients.
Summary
Donnelley Financial Solutions (NYSE: DFIN) is seeking a Lead QA Engineer to ensure the quality of our existing Venue Virtual Data Room product and as it evolves into a set of fault tolerant, autonomously scalable, and performant microservices in Azure. We are seeking a software engineering leader passionate about quality to create and sustain a common quality assurance strategy across multiple software development teams, lead its execution, and drive continuous improvement in software quality. If you are committed to leading others to deliver high quality, maintainable, reliable, performant, and scalable software, this role might be the perfect fit. Come be part of a growing, innovative team that cares about you and your personal growth and development. This role is availible for both our downtown Chicago location or our office located in Downers Grove
What you will do
- Drive QA and test strategy, including performance and load testing, and execution across multiple development teams
- Drive common test automation, frameworks and tools, and quality assurance measurement across multiple development teams
- Lead multiple development teams to validate and verify software with traceability back to requirements
- Improve effectiveness (coverage) and automation of test suites (unit, integration, regression, smoke, performance, load)
- Ensure test suite execution time supports a two-week production release cycle without compromising quality
- Identify risks to quality in architecture and design and develop risk mitigation strategies for development teams to execute during implementation
- Directly lead remote QA teams to automate tests as part of our Continuous Integration and Delivery release process
- Identify and integrate new test and test automation improvement opportunities into our Continuous Integration and Delivery release process
- Create and report KPIs and metrics to actively manage and provide transparency to product quality and QA process effectiveness
- Design and implement automated test cases within a defined framework to assure the quality of a functional domain; translate existing manual test cases into automated tests
- Mentor software engineers and QA engineers in QA processes and best practices
Required Skills
- 10+ years validating and verifying complex distributed polyglot systems in multiple environments using C# / .NET, Java, Scala, and/or C++ to improve quality
- 5+ years experience using QA automation and test frameworks in a stage gate Continuous Integration and Delivery process to verify and validate software and improve quality
- Experience driving and/or implementing test strategies and architecture across multiple teams and integrated applications to improve quality
- Excellent problem solving, leadership, collaboration, and teamwork skills
- Extensive experience writing automated tests
- Experience leading multiple small teams to move fast to deliver quality improvement
- Object-oriented design (SOLID) principles and design patterns
- API first design building scalable ReSTful APIs, ideally using an IDL like OpenAPI
- Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Math, or Computer/Electrical Engineering
Nice to haves
- Containerization and orchestration experience such as Kubernetes or Azure AKS
- Demonstrated expertise validating and verifying fault tolerant, low latency distributed systems at scale in a cloud utility stack (such as Azure)
- Simplicity is your goal – even when it takes more work to achieve that goal
- You insist on a Continuous Integration workflow with zero-downtime deploys
- Master of Science degree in Computer Science, Math, or Computer/Electrical Engineering
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