Company Description
Merkle, a dentsu company, powers the experience economy. For more than 35 years, the company has put people at the heart of its approach to digital business transformation. As the only integrated experience consultancy in the world with a heritage in data science and business performance, Merkle delivers holistic, end-to-end experiences that drive growth, engagement, and loyalty. Merkle's expertise has earned recognition as a "Leader" by top industry analyst firms, in categories such as digital transformation and commerce, experience design, engineering and technology integration, digital marketing, data science, CRM and loyalty, and customer data management. With more than 16,000 employees, Merkle operates in 30+ countries throughout the Americas, EMEA, and APAC. For more information, visit www.merkle.com.
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Job Description
- Be part of the QA Community of Practice, working alongside with peers and Lead on identifying, prioritizing, and implementing best practices and tooling for the engineering team
- Work closely with the Product Owner and other Stakeholders to ensure product requirements are well captured in the team’s backlog, and quality assurance topics are identified and addressed accordingly.
- Drive quality engineering practices and continuous improvement in your team.
- Work with product teams to understand requirements, and design comprehensive test plans and test Scenarios.
- Execute the plans to test all software releases thoroughly.
- Contribute to improving testing activities through automation, implementing automation tests using modern frameworks.
- Coach and collaborate with developers to ensure a strong and efficient test automation strategy.
- Ensure best practices are implemented and act as a facilitator for the team around quality engineering, using a shift left approach.
- Report and track defects, prepare test plan reports, and ensure all related tasks.
- Support NFRs testing in areas including performance, load, security, and accessibility.
- You will work with Agile Processes that are adapted to the team’s and project’s needs
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Computer Science or Software Engineering with appropriate experience
- Proven work experience as a Quality Assurance Engineer for 3+ years
- Technical background in application engineering, infrastructure, and integration
- Strong experience with test automation tools and frameworks
- Professional experience with programming languages such as Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python
- Working experience applying modern Agile Software Development practices
- Experience with test and defect management tools (ex: Xray, Jira)
Additional Information
We work with highly motivated people, who support and enrich each other. We live the possibilities of the digital world through home office, meaning you can work anywhere with flexible (annual) working hours. We also value face-to-face exchanges - coffee or tea, biscuits or fruit are all welcomed on board and shared throughout our offices.
If you feel inspired by us, we’ll probably be inspired by you. Join us now and apply online to make sure we match each other’s expectations. We value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment. We welcome all qualified candidates - regardless of your gender or background. We look forward to hearing from you!
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