Sr Software QA Engineer

Yahoo Finance is the world’s #1 finance destination, empowering investors with news, information, and tools to make financial decisions with confidence. Trusted by over 150M visitors globally each month, representing over $20 trillion dollars in investable assets, Yahoo Finance delivers high-quality real-time market data across desktop, mobile, and streaming platforms. With breaking news from thousands of sources, original editorial perspectives, objective analyst ratings and research, analytical charts and technical tools, personalized mobile alerts, and much more, Yahoo Finance equips investors with knowledge and insights to achieve financial freedom and greater prosperity.

Responsibilities:

• This is a dual Quality Engineer / Frontend role
• Provide technical operations support through driving best practices, Automation Strategizing, Enabling Developers to build with quality, challenging the status quo.
• Use CI/CD and automation tools to improve operational efficiency across the YFinance product, engineering and design organization
• Handle basic frontend maintenance of internal tools and technical operation systems
• Write basic HTML, CSS and frontend code to augment internal tools and modify test cases accordingly
• Translate customer requirements into technical operations strategy and plans
• Drive creation of scripts for automation of repetitive and routine tasks across CI/CD, quality platforms and developer experience areas
• Create runbooks where automation is too expensive or technically complex
• Create runbooks for the triage of incidents, outages, and debugging
• Collaborate across quality engineering and product engineering teams to automate operations tasks, improve efficiency of existing pipelines and processes, and improve efficiency of product execution
• Leverage and augment quality platforms to improve quality on technical operations systems
• Ensure that tech ops systems and tools meet organizational standards in terms of functional, performance, security, integration, data integrity, privacy, accessibility, and legal requirements
• Provide on-call product support for the Yahoo Finance web and native apps
• Provide and support the implementation of business solutions by building relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders; identifying business needs; determining and carrying out necessary processes and practices; monitoring progress and results; recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; and adapting to competing demands, organizational changes, and new responsibilities.
• Mentor and lead mid-level and junior QA automation engineers on your team on automation best practices and processes
• Working closely with Development, Business Analysts and the Product Owners to ensure project success.

This is a dual Quality Engineer / Frontend role

Provide technical operations support through driving best practices, Automation Strategizing, Enabling Developers to build with quality, challenging the status quo.

Use CI/CD and automation tools to improve operational efficiency across the YFinance product, engineering and design organization

Handle basic frontend maintenance of internal tools and technical operation systems

Write basic HTML, CSS and frontend code to augment internal tools and modify test cases accordingly

Translate customer requirements into technical operations strategy and plans

Drive creation of scripts for automation of repetitive and routine tasks across CI/CD, quality platforms and developer experience areas

Create runbooks where automation is too expensive or technically complex

Create runbooks for the triage of incidents, outages, and debugging

Collaborate across quality engineering and product engineering teams to automate operations tasks, improve efficiency of existing pipelines and processes, and improve efficiency of product execution

Leverage and augment quality platforms to improve quality on technical operations systems

Ensure that tech ops systems and tools meet organizational standards in terms of functional, performance, security, integration, data integrity, privacy, accessibility, and legal requirements

Provide on-call product support for the Yahoo Finance web and native apps

Provide and support the implementation of business solutions by building relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders; identifying business needs; determining and carrying out necessary processes and practices; monitoring progress and results; recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; and adapting to competing demands, organizational changes, and new responsibilities.

Mentor and lead mid-level and junior QA automation engineers on your team on automation best practices and processes

Working closely with Development, Business Analysts and the Product Owners to ensure project success.

About You:

• A minimum of 5+  years of experience in software testing, knowledge of the software development life cycle and Agile methodology like Scrum/Kanban
• 7+ years of combined experience in Web Automation Frameworks and CI/CD
• Experience with DevOps and Continuous Integration Tools (e.g. Jenkins, CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Travis CI, Harness.io, Argo CD, etc)
• Deep experience with Automation Testing Frameworks such as: Cypress, Selenium, Playwright, WebdriverIO, Appio
• Strong technical competency in Javascript, TypeScript, ES6 or nodejs
• Experience with one modern frontend framework (React, Angular, Vue or Svelte)
• Experience writing basic HTML and CSS
• Experience in building UI Test Automation Frameworks and libraries
• Strong knowledge of source control tools, like git or github
• Experience with one or more Test Case Management Tools (Rally, Quality Center/ALM, TestRail, etc.)
• Experience in Postman, Eclipse, Maven, TestNG or respective open source or similar tools are preferred
• Understanding of QA practices (white and black box testing, risk based testing, system testing, regression testing, exploratory testing practices)
• Proficient in using JIRA to log defects, develop test scenarios, execution and create status reports/dashboards
• Understanding of test beds, test environments, test data and execution setup
• Proficient in performing the cross browser testing using any cross browser tool like Browser stack or saucelabs for Local and Other environments
• Proficiency in participating in Root Cause Analysis sessions to identify and address underlying issues
• Comprehensive understanding and hands-on experience with various types of testing, including smoke, white box, black box, integration, end-to-end, regression, and system testing

A minimum of 5+  years of experience in software testing, knowledge of the software development life cycle and Agile methodology like Scrum/Kanban

7+ years of combined experience in Web Automation Frameworks and CI/CD

Experience with DevOps and Continuous Integration Tools (e.g. Jenkins, CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Travis CI, Harness.io, Argo CD, etc)

Deep experience with Automation Testing Frameworks such as: Cypress, Selenium, Playwright, WebdriverIO, Appio

Strong technical competency in Javascript, TypeScript, ES6 or nodejs

Experience with one modern frontend framework (React, Angular, Vue or Svelte)

Experience writing basic HTML and CSS

Experience in building UI Test Automation Frameworks and libraries

Strong knowledge of source control tools, like git or github

Experience with one or more Test Case Management Tools (Rally, Quality Center/ALM, TestRail, etc.)

Experience in Postman, Eclipse, Maven, TestNG or respective open source or similar tools are preferred

Understanding of QA practices (white and black box testing, risk based testing, system testing, regression testing, exploratory testing practices)

Proficient in using JIRA to log defects, develop test scenarios, execution and create status reports/dashboards

Understanding of test beds, test environments, test data and execution setup

Proficient in performing the cross browser testing using any cross browser tool like Browser stack or saucelabs for Local and Other environments

Proficiency in participating in Root Cause Analysis sessions to identify and address underlying issues

Comprehensive understanding and hands-on experience with various types of testing, including smoke, white box, black box, integration, end-to-end, regression, and system testing

Important notes for your attention

All applicants must apply for Yahoo openings direct with Yahoo.  We do not authorize any external agencies in India to handle candidates’ applications.   No agency nor individual may charge candidates for any efforts they make on an applicant’s behalf in the hiring process.

Our internal recruiters will reach out to you directly to discuss the next steps if we determine that the role is a good fit for you.  Selected candidates will go through formal interviews and assessments arranged by Yahoo direct.

Our electronic offer letter and documents will be issued through our system for e-signatures, not via individual emails.

Yahoo will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law. +1.866.772.3182

Yahoo has a high degree of flexibility around employee location and hybrid working. In fact, our flexible-hybrid approach to work is one of the things our employees rave about. Most roles don’t require specific regular patterns of in-person office attendance. If you join Yahoo, you may be asked to attend (or travel to attend) on-site work sessions, team-building, or other in-person events. When these occur, you’ll be given notice to make arrangements.

If you’re curious about how this factors into this role, please discuss with the recruiter.

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