QA Automation Architect
Job Description
About NielsenIQ BASES
NielsenIQ BASES is the global leader and gold-standard for helping companies in the consumer goods industries to realize their growth strategies. BASES analytical SaaS products provide support to clients to create and evolve new innovations, optimize impactful advertising and messaging aligned with the widening range of consumer influences, build compelling package designs and help prioritize and plan product launches. Having decades of successful leadership across fast moving consumer goods, BASES is expanding into growth verticals including Restaurants, Tech, Household Durables, Consumer Electronics, and Gaming.
With best-in-class research, success prediction and volumetric forecasting models, NielsenIQ BASES is at the core of our clients' new product ideas, messaging, packaging and product launch strategies. Join BASES and you will work with industry leading brands, marketers, and cutting-edge technologies while seeing your work come to life. In BASES, you can. Be curious. Be collaborative. Be forward thinking.
About NielsenIQ
NielsenIQ is a global measurement and data analytics company that provides the most complete and trusted view available of consumers and markets worldwide. We provide consumer packaged goods manufacturers/fast-moving consumer goods and retailers with accurate, actionable information and insights and a complete picture of the complex and changing marketplace that companies need to innovate and grow. Our approach marries proprietary NielsenIQ data with other data sources to help clients around the world understand what’s happening now, what’s happening next, and how to best act on this knowledge. We like to be in the middle of the action. That’s why you can find us at work in over 90 countries, covering more than 90% of the world’s population. For more information, visit www.niq.com.
NielsenIQ 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.
Specific responsibilities include:
Define, perform and own the QA Technical Center of Excellence processes enabling the CoE to serve as an organizational tool to vet, promote and disseminate technical innovations and practices.
Lead and facilitate the QA Technical Center of Excellence activities.
Responsible for the Quality of the automation frameworks and processes
Ideate, research, experiment and introduce latest tools and technologies that benefit the whole team by enhancing productivity and quality
Identify areas of improvements in the QA automation frameworks and implement solutions
Plan and manage framework and library migrations and upgrades.
Provide practical technical guidance for the problem statement and guide the team to increase the odds of overall initiative success.
Prepare and maintain frameworks, best practices related documentation
Drive adoption of QA automation processes
Own the strategy to create and maintain test data, across multiple environments and projects
Manage and maintain code repositories
Coordinate on platform and application design improvements and suggestions with the lead Architect
Expected competencies
Communications across scrum teams within the Technology group
Breadth and depth of technical knowledge
Building the culture
Evaluation and vetting for generality of technical proposals
Evangelizing use of the Tech Center of Excellence
Cross team process definition and ownership
Scaling organizationally, technically and process-wise
Arbitrates conflicts diplomatically; motivates collaboration
Growth areas
Business planning and execution
Coaching new technical leaders
Interpreting business goals and translating them into actionable plan
Education and experience
6 years of software development / technical leadership experience
MS/BS in Software Engineering or related discipline
Technical skills
Hands on experience in test automation tools like Selenium or Protractor
Hands on experience in performance test automation tools like JMeter
Knowledge in at least one programming language or scripting languages
Experience with Object-Oriented design and development
Strong test validation and test debugging skills
Experience with Web-application/Cross browser testing
Understanding of relational databases such as MS SQL Server
Experience working in onshore-offshore model
Familiarity working in Agile-Scrum environment and software production release process
Experience with microservice development is a plus
Experience with non-relational databases like MongoDB is a plus
Experience working with Cloud based applications is nice to have
Passion for learning new technologies
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
About NielsenIQ
NielsenIQ is a global measurement and data analytics company that provides the most complete and trusted view available of consumers and markets worldwide. We provide consumer packaged goods manufacturers/fast-moving consumer goods and retailers with accurate, actionable information and insights and a complete picture of the complex and changing marketplace that companies need to innovate and grow. Our approach marries proprietary NielsenIQ data with other data sources to help clients around the world understand what’s happening now, what’s happening next, and how to best act on this knowledge. We like to be in the middle of the action. That’s why you can find us at work in over 90 countries, covering more than 90% of the world’s population. For more information, visit www.niq.com.
NielsenIQ 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.