Designation – Lead- Hadoop Test

Location –Chennai

About employer– Altiscale

Job description:

Responsibilities

• Lead testing strategy efforts for all our services, including helping developers come up with an overall testing methodology for our systems
• Lead test automation efforts for all services including selection, design and implementation of test frameworks and tools
• Promote, solicit and instruct others on good quality and coding practices and standards through mentoring and group presentations
• Represent QE in discussions with development and product groups
• Write smoke, functional, integration, load and regression automated tests against web services APIs (REST)
• Collaborate with the engineering team to fully test the entire product offering, integration points and user interfaces
• Collaborate with development engineers to build, evolve and maintain a scalable continuous build and deployment pipeline
• Use Quality and Testing experience to identify test gaps and opportunities to expand our test case coverage.
• Constantly monitor production issues and explore ways to avoid them by tightening the automated tests.
• As new versions of software components get released, identify opportunities to automate testing new features and testing compatibility and implement them.

Qualification and Skills Required

• 7+ years of Test experience as a developer and team leader
• 5+ years of Test Automation experience
• Hands-on in test automation
• Demonstrated experience with Object Oriented programming including multiple languages such as: Java, Ruby and JavaScript
• Strong Understanding of XML, Json, and REST and demonstrated experience with web services APIs.
• Demonstrated experience in using command-line networking tools such as CURL.
• Leadership experience with a focus on QA Processes and Methodologies
• Previous experience with Continuous Integration or Continuous Delivery
• Practical experience with Linux, such as Red Hat or Ubuntu, including Unix shell scripting
• Demonstrated advanced knowledge of web protocols and systems
• Sound knowledge of data networks and their management.

Desired Experience

• Experience with geographically dispersed teams.
• Experience working within an Agile development process (Scrum, XP, Kanban etc.) from the test design, test automation and execution perspective
• Understanding and experience with Big Data infrastructure such as Hadoop, Pig, Hive, and HBase
• Deep understanding and experience with Linux, virtual machines, and open source tools/platforms
• Experience building large-scale distributed applications and services.
• Sound knowledge of SQL & No-SQL databases.
• Experience in using Amazon Web Services, especially EC2, S3 and RDS.

Interested people can apply for this job can mail their CV to [email protected] with subject as Lead- Hadoop Test – Altiscale – Chennai

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