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Software Engineer Job at Guru Schools in Chicago

Guru Schools, Chicago, IL, US, 60290

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**Description:** As a Software Test Engineer, you will contribute to quality assurance of software systems and/or applications. **Responsibilities:** Responsibilities of the incumbents are to provide manual and/or automation testing of features and capabilities of platform and/or applications. • Competent to perform all testing, project management, and quality assurance assignments without close supervision; normally assigned the complex aspects of systems work. • Competent to perform all testing activities of new and existing software products. • Use your understanding of systems, regression, integration, performance, and user acceptance testing • Works directly on complex application/technical problem identification and resolution. • Works independently on complex systems or infrastructure components that may be used by one or more applications or systems. • Analyze business requirement to develop and execute manual and automation test cases • Document software issues and defects in bug tracking software and monitor for the resolution. • Coordinate with product owner to resolve open issues/enhancements/upgrades and understand the use of a specific functionality as needed • Communicate with end users and internal customers to help direct development, debugging, and testing of application software for accuracy, integrity, interoperability, and completeness • Performs integrated testing and customer acceptance testing of components that requires careful planning and execution to ensure timely, quality results. • Employee is also responsible for performing other job duties as assigned by Client's management from time to time. **Techinical Skills Required:** - 5 years or more of software testing experience (manual or automation) or at least 3 years of experience with master's degree in computer science or related field. - 3 years or more of test automation framework design and development experience - 3 years or more of prior either functional or object- oriented coding experience in modern programming languages like C++, Java or Python (preferably Java) - Strong development skills in two or more of the following technologies and tools: Java/Junit, Python, Cucumber, JBehave or other BDD testing frameworks **Desired Skills:** - Plan, design, develop, and maintain API test automation framework that facilitates automation scripting, execution, and analysis of results - Develop of test automation code for Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), of systems, infrastructure, and test framework. - End-to-end system integration testing experience for software platforms - Proven experience developing test scripts, test cases, and test data - Strong experience in testing Webservices (REST APIs) - The ability to write queries in SQL or other relational databases - Experience testing full stack and integration testing with 3rd parties - Experience in TDD, continuous integration, code review practice is strongly desired - Experience with Apigee or other API gateways is a plus - Experience with DevOps concepts and tools (e.g., CI/CD, Jenkins, Git) - At least 2 years working on an Agile team with a solid understanding of Agile/Lean practices. - Understanding of a micro service Architecture - Experience load and performance testing **Soft Skills Required:** - Strong documentation skills - Ability to adapt quickly to a complex environment - Pro-active, flexible and creative - Very strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate with developers and business users.