QA Automation Engineer

Verisk Nepal Pvt. Ltd.

Verisk Nepal is the software development and information technology (IT) service support center for Verisk Analytics. We are a dedicated team of software and IT professionals who provide technical support to Verisk's businesses. At Verisk Nepal, we help our internal clients focus on their business solutions while we focus on the technology. Verisk Nepal is a wholly owned subsidiary of ISO, a Verisk Analytics business.

Details / requirements:

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
  •  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
  • Write clean, high-quality scripts that test product functionality automatically.
  • Conduct various tests for systems integration, UI, applications, databases, API.
  • Identify specific cases that should be automated and discuss them with QA Team.
  • Develop the best automation solutions based on the clients’ requirements.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams (developers, product managers, QA Team) to find ways on how automation can improve the workflow.
  • Take part in brainstorms to come up with new ideas and designs that improve existing features.

Qualifications

Education Level: Bachelor’s in Computer Science, or related field or equivalent experience

Experience Required: 1 to 3 years of professional experience in Software Quality Assurance and Test Automation

Skills and Knowledge - 

  •  Passion to work and grow as a Software QA 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

Technical Expertise:

  •  Strong understanding of object-oriented programming
  •  Good knowledge of a programming/scripting language – JAVA, C# .Net, Scripting, Python
  •  Knack for writing clean, readable, and easily maintainable QA automation workflows
  •  Experience in testing web services such as RESTful API
  •  Experience in performance testing using tools such as Apache JMeter
  •  Experience of testing Search clusters like Solr, Lucene and Elastic Search
  •  Proficient in SQL and relational database concepts, experience or knowledge of NoSQL DB preferably MongoDB
  • Technically familiar with development concepts and formats such as SQL, XML, JSON and scripting languages with experience in testing non-GUI applications
  • Proficient understanding of code versioning tool and familiarity with Continuous Integration atmosphere
  • Knowledge of AWS services would be a strong plus point.

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Additional Information

In 2022, Verisk received Great Place to Work® Certification for our outstanding workplace culture for the sixth year in a row and second-time certification in the UK, Spain, and India. We’re also one of the 38 companies on the UK’s Best Workplaces™ list and one of 18 companies on Spain’s Best Workplaces™ list.

For over fifty years and through innovation, interpretation, and professional insight, Verisk has replaced uncertainty with precision to unlock opportunities that deliver significant and demonstrable impact. From our historic roots in risk assessment, we’ve grown to provide analytic insights that help transform industries focused on some of the world’s most critical areas. Today, the insurance industry relies on Verisk to be, and to make the world, more productive, resilient, and sustainable.

Verisk works in collaboration with our customers and at the intersection of people, data, and advanced technologies. Through proprietary platformed analytics, advanced modeling, and interpretation, we deliver immediate and sustained value to our customers and through them, to the individuals and societies they serve, with greater speed, precision, and scale. We’re 9,000 people strong, committed to translating big data into big ideas. We help others see new possibilities and empower certainty into big decisions that impact individuals and societies. And we relentlessly and ethically pursue innovation to help move our customers, and the world, toward better tomorrows.

Everyone at Verisk—from our chief executive officer to our newest employee—is guided by The Verisk Way, to Be Remarkable, Add Value, and Innovate.

  • Be Remarkable by doing something better each day in service to our customers and each other
  • Add Value by delivering immediate and sustained results that drive positive outcomes
  • Innovate by redefining what’s possible, embracing challenges, and pushing boundaries

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.

http://www.verisk.com/careers.html

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Overview

Category Information Technology, Web Designing & Programming, Engineering - Software, Software Development
Openings 1
Position Type Full Time
Experience 2+ years
Education Bachelors in Computer Science
Posted Date 29 Apr, 2024
Apply Before 29 May, 2024
City Kathmandu