Software QA Engineer (Java API Automation Testing)

A Moving Experience.

Principal duties and responsibilities

• Designrobust QA code and tooling strategieswithout being overly complex

• Validate new and existingRESTful serverfeatures at the functional,web APIand partner integration levels for internal and external customers

• Write and maintain purpose-builtautomated workflows, perform code reviews with peers, and apply targeted manualefforts/investigationsto meet practical or business requirements

• Develop tools and instruments in collaboration with other QA team members to exercise and analyze technically complex scenarios

• Adjacent test activities may include occasional overlap with networking, client application, infrastructure, and user interface aspects of mobile handset and vehicle client applications

• Troubleshoot issues, write detailed stories and bugs, and work them to the conclusion in an Agile team environment

• Periodically participate andsupport DevOpsteam during normal and scheduled off-hours in production deployment efforts to validate and hand over deliverable

• Provide feedback on documentation and ensure the product’s compliance/alignment throughout its lifecycle

• Share team responsibilities for configuring and deploying multiple collections of QA Server environments

• Experience inJava software development and/or automation test class development

• Experience withApache/Tomcat/Spring-basedRESTful web API

• Testing experiencewith product features backed by a relational database (e.g. PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, MS-SQL)

• Ability to analyze and solve complex problems quickly and creatively, while considering the customer's perspective and business impacts in the proposed solutions

• Experience withJUnit or another similar unit test framework

• Proficiency inside Linux/Bash terminals with managing files, executing tools and editing documents

• Ability to produce effective stories and documents that enable other departments to test and deploy web server solutions

Preferred skills

• Good knowledgeIntelliJ or Eclipse IDE
• Good knowledge of theAgile process and JIRA
• Knowledge of configuration management and build processes (e.g.Jenkins. GIT, Maven)
• Knowledge of continuousintegration/deployment(CI/CD) using Docker, Kubernetes, Puppet, or similar tools and frameworks
• Practical knowledge of relational and non-relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL, Oracle, Cassandra, Hadoop, Couchbase, Azure CosmosDB)
• Advanced knowledge ofLinux (installation, configuration, maintenance, networking)
• Experience with writing multi-modular scripts inBash, Python, PowerShell

Knowledge, skills, and qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent with professional background

Minimum years of work experience

• 2-5 years of experience in software QA automation

Cerence Inc. (Nasdaq: CRNC and ) is the global industry leader in creating unique, moving experiences for the automotive world. Spun out from Nuance in October 2019, Cerence is a new, independent company that has quickly gained traction as a leader in the automotive voice assistant space, working with all of the world’s leading automakers – from Ford and Fiat Chrysler to Daimler, Audi and BMW to Geely and SAIC – to transform how a car feels, responds and learns. Its track record is built on more than 20 years of industry experience and leadership and more than 500 million cars on the road today across more than 70 languages.

As Cerence looksto the future and continues an ambitious growth agenda, we needsomeone to join the teamand help build the future of voice and AI in cars. This is an exciting opportunity tojoin Cerence’s passionate,dedicated, global team and be a part of meaningful innovation in a rapidly growing industry.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Cerence is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of age, race, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sex, sex stereotyping, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, protected military or veteran status, genetic information and other protected classifications. Cerence Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.

All prospective and current Employees need to remain vigilant when it comes to executing security policies in the workplace. This includes:

• Basic knowledge of information security and data privacy requirements (e.g., how to protect data & how to be handling this data).

• Demonstrative knowledge of information security through internal training programs.