CNBC Quality & Performance engineering team is looking for an expert on test tools, test process with solid understanding of news media & mobile apps technology. In this role, you will have an opportunity to partner with product & engineering teams to own end to end user experience. This role will have an opportunity to lead agile team quality deliverables.

Title: Quality Lead

Responsibilities
•       Provide high-level test effort estimate
•       Create detailed and well-structured test plans and test cases
•       Set up a test harness to test functionality
•       Automation feasibility study, development & maintenance of API, functional, integration and load/performance scripts across platforms
•       Build, deploy application & conduct manual and automated testing as per defined process
•       Report and follow up of defects found until closure
•       Analyze logs in order to understand the root causes of issues
•       Participate in agile - standups, planning sessions and retrospectives
•       Perform automated nightly application regression & performance test
•       Functional/Integration/Production testing by leveraging CI/CD Pipeline
•       Work both independently and in close collaboration with others in the team and across the business to achieve quality & performance engineering goals
•       Bring the quality consciousness, test leadership and customer advocacy
•       Create and maintain HOWTOs and other materials for quality & performance engineering team
•       Knowledge Management/Retention - Cross training & documentation
•       Actively coach/mentor quality engineers
•       Publish KPIs & metrics, ensure process compliance
•       Onsite - Offshore co-ordination, as required

Minimum Requirements
•       B.S degree or higher in computer science or related education
•       5+ yrs. of experience in software engineering - QA testing
•       3+ yrs. of experience in testing news website, subscription products, SEO, ads, metrics, video players (live/on-demand) & streaming media content on desktop & mobile platforms
•       3+ yrs. of experience in software engineering - QA automation
•       Must be proficient in Java
•       Must have experience implementing automation frameworks – (Selenium WebDriver/Appium/TestNG/Junit)
•       Must have experience with performance testing tools to measure server & client-side metrics
•       Any experience in software engineering – Security testing
•       Must have experience using Version control (GIT), SQL, CI/CD Tools (Jenkins), Build Tools (Maven, ANT, etc), Debugging Tools (Charles/Fiddler), Monitoring tools (New Relic), Agile Management Tool (JIRA), Test Management Tool (TestRail)
•       Any certification related to QA/Process/Automation/Performance Test/Security