Software Quality Engineer

Role: Quality Assurance Engineer

Division: Assessment & Qualifications Delivery

Location: Chennai or Bangalore, India

About Pearson: At Pearson we ‘add life to a lifetime of learning’ so everyone can realise the life they imagine. We do this by creating vibrant and enriching learning experiences designed for real-life impact. Our Purpose | Add Life to a Lifetime of Learning. Pearson was founded in 1844 and has been built on our ability to grow with and adapt to a constantly evolving market. Our 20,000+ employees are dedicated to creating the high-quality, digital-first, accessible and sustainable resources for lifelong learning.

About UK Assessment & Qualifications: We are responsible for the delivery of nearly 4 million examination results per annum, including A-Level, GCSE, BTEC and T-levels for students in UK and International centres. Our in-house systems process every learner from registration to marking and certification, in a highly regulated business. We currently operate a hybrid estate of predominantly bespoke systems, with an ongoing strategic transformation programme to migrate from on-prem to cloud based, cost effective, scalable, and resilient services.

The Role

The position is for a Quality Assurance Engineer to work on a combination of existing on-prem and transformed AWS-hosted cloud .NET solutions. We’d expect that you’ll have some prior relevant experience as a Quality Assurance Engineer working with manual testing and automation tools, testing solutions that provide real benefit to users, and working in an Agile project delivery environment using Scrum or Kanban.

Key Skills & Experience

• Design and development of Automation Frameworks and integration with Automation tools (Selenium, REST assured, Postman, Swagger, TestComplete, Cucumber)
• High expertise in testing concepts – both manual and automation (50%/50%)
• Experience with API testing including RESTful Web Services
• Use of HP ALM for test case management
• System Integration Testing concepts and experience in coordinating with multiple teams during SIT
• Creation of Regression test suites
• Effective documentation and management of defects in JIRA or related tool
• Preparation, review and maintenance of test documentation such as Test Cases / Scenarios and Defects
• Working with Product Owner and Business Analyst to refine and estimate requirements.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Experience with Agile Software Development
• Experience working with distributed teams, including offshore team members.

Desirable Skills & Experience:

• Preparation, review, and maintenance of effective Test Plans, in line with the Test Strategy
• Providing support to Performance and Security testing teams
• Application of stringent Definition of Done (DoD) on moving stories to Done in JIRA
• Working with Developers to utilise testing methodologies like TDD / BDD in Cloud / Hybrid environment 
• Experience with Jenkins and Maven
• Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
• Shift Left Testing 
• Knowledge of AWS or Azure
• Experience with Jenkins and Maven
• Accessibility and Compatibility Testing

Job Location and Hours

The role is aligned to our Bangalore or Chennai offices in India, working a 45 hour week. All our roles are hybrid working; Candidates must be a suitable commute from their base office as our office presence policy may change to require more frequent presence in 2024.

For this role there is a requirement to provide occasional out of hours support during business critical periods.