Technical Lead - job 2 of 2

Location: Noida Berger Tower, India

Thales people architect identity management and data protection solutions at the heart of digital security. Business and governments rely on us to bring trust to the billons of digital interactions they have with people. Our technologies and services help banks exchange funds, people cross borders, energy become smarter and much more. More than 30,000 organizations already rely on us to verify the identities of people and things, grant access to digital services, analyze vast quantities of information and encrypt data to make the connected world more secure.

Present in India since 1953, Thales is headquartered in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, and has operational offices and sites spread across Bengaluru, Delhi, Gurugram, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune among others. Over 1800 employees are working with Thales and its joint ventures in India. Since the beginning, Thales has been playing an essential role in India’s growth story by sharing its technologies and expertise in Defence, Transport, Aerospace and Digital Identity and Security markets.

YOUR CAREER AT THALES Future opportunities will allow you to discover other domains or sites. You will be able to evolve and grow your competences in different areas: · Room and attention to personal development · Build your talents in another domain of Thales Group, discovering new products, new customers, new country or go to a more complex Solution · Choose between a technical expertise or a leadership path · Build an international career within a leading Engineering Group.

We are looking to add to our fast paced, Agile, QA Team where your work split between automation and manual will be 50 – 50%.

What will the candidate be doing?

• 4 – 7 years of experience in Testing
• Design robust, scalable and maintainable high-quality test solutions for functional, regression and performance testing
• Translate functional requirements into appropriate feature test files and execute as required.
• Strong experience of functional test automation using Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber using Java or any other latest automation technology
• Work with systems analysts and developers to provide enhanced test coverage.
• Contribute to QA strategy.
• Liaise with other members of staff as required
• A strong communicator with the ability to mentor, coach and coordinate with team
• Strong influencing skills and able to identify, recommend and implement changes and improvements to testing processes and approaches

Primary Experience and Skills Required:

• Extensive experience in Test Automation, ideally within Selenium with Java.
• Strong knowledge in TestNG, Rest Assured, Web API and Sanity/Regression.
• Good understanding of SQL Server and comfortable in using SQL.
• Strong commercial experience of functional test automation using Ranorex/Selenium Webdriver and Cucumber and non-functional testing.
• Experience in Web Services and Web Applications and Window services
• Mobile Testing experience
• Working knowledge of HTML, CSS, SQL and Java
• ISEB Foundation in software test or similar accreditation
• Thorough understanding of Agile development methods
• Ability to work effectively both individually and as part of a small team
• Acute attention to detail
• Awareness of Continuous Integration
• Expertise in API testing using REST Assured would be beneficial

Secondary Skills:

• Testing experience with databases (sql server and no-sql databases)
• Performance/Load testing using JMeter or any tool.
• Working experience with tools like SoapUI, postman.
• Security Testing (PEN testing)
• Any real project experience for developing custom test framework.

Personal Attributes:

• Strong and innovative approach to problem solving and finding solutions.
• Excellent communicator (written and verbal, formal and informal).
• Flexible and proactive/self-motivated working style with strong personal ownership of problem resolution.
• Ability to multi-task under pressure and work independently with minimal supervision.
• Ability to prioritize when under pressure.

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working. Great journeys start here, apply now!