As a QA Engineer, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the quality and reliability of our systems. You will collaborate closely with Product Owners, developers, and other teams to create, execute, and automate tests, identify defects, and help accelerate time to market. The successful candidate will be able to solve problems creatively, communicate effectively, and work both independently and collaboratively. Responsibilities: ? Develop and execute manual tests. ? Identify, document, and track defects. ? Work closely with the application teams to identify opportunities to provide innovative testing solutions, enabling teams to achieve continuous delivery goals. ? Maintain test environments. ? Stay up-to-date with the latest testing technologies and advocate for shift-left testing strategies. ? Work closely with developers and advise on appropriate tests to be implemented at the right stage of the development lifecycle. Competencies: ? Solid QA Analyst skills. ? Strong attention to detail. ? Self-motivated and enthusiastic team player. ? Willing to take personal responsibility and be accountable for outcomes. ? Proven communication, analysis, and problem-solving skills. ? Customer-focused with a talent for building excellent working relationships with business and technical stakeholders. ? Ability to work to tight deadlines and effectively prioritize workload. ? Experience working on complex projects involving large datasets. ? Experience with Agile/Kanban methodologies. ? Knowledge of SQL and Linux commands. Nice to have: ? Familiarity with testing streaming pipeline technologies (e.g., Pub/Sub, Google Dataflow, Apache Beam, Apache Flink, or similar). ? Experience with unit testing. ? Experience with cloud technologies, ideally GCP/GKE. ? Experience with messaging platforms like Kafka. ? Experience with Kubernetes/Docker. ? Experience working in a platform-oriented product where customers are product development teams. ? Prior experience building robust test automation and BDD frameworks. ? Coding experience with Java or another comparable object-oriented language. ? Experience with modern software development practices, including tools such as GIT. ? Experience with modern continuous delivery pipelines, implemented with tools like Jenkins, Argo, XLR. '' Skills: SQL LINUX QA