Job Description

:Rakuten Group, Inc. is the largest e-commerce company in Japan, and third largest e-commerce marketplace company worldwide, with over 1.5 billion registered users worldwide. The Rakuten brand is recognized worldwide for its leadership and innovation, and provides a variety of consumer and business-focused services including e-commerce, e-reading, travel, banking, securities, credit card, e-money, portal and media, online marketing and professional sports. The company is expanding globally and currently has operations throughout Asia, Western Europe, and the Americas.Rakuten Viki is a premier global entertainment streaming site where millions of people discover and consume primetime shows and movies subtitled in more than 200 languages, by our community of fans. With billions of videos viewed and more than 1 billion words translated, Viki brings global entertainment to fans everywhere!Based in Singapore and reporting to Engineering Manager, we\xe2\x80\x99re looking for a passionate, highly skilled and experienced Senior Engineer, QA (Backend), with the desire and talent to make big changes in a fast paced environment. The QA engineer should be experienced in testing backend applications in functional and non-functional areas (usability, security and performance) with strong coding skills. The Senior Engineer, QA should be a grey box tester rather than a black box tester, and should be able to understand software internals, debug problems, and write automated tests with scripting and/or user-level automated tools. The candidate should be an excellent individual contributor capable of taking up tasks from start to completion with minimal help. The Senior Engineer, QA would be responsible for understanding the domain and the product in detail and coming up with the test strategy/planning, coming up with the test cases, driving the test case sign-off processes with the stakeholders, contributing to code level Unit tests, test execution and reporting.The ideal candidate requires great communication skills, attention to detail, quality focussed, adaptive to change, agile, and should know and practice engineering best practices.Key Responsibilities Include:Writing, extending and maintaining automated test plans and scripts for the Core Platform ServicesDesign, execute and automate integration tests of backend (and sometimes frontend) applications across a variety of architectures and cutting-edge technologies.Architect automation frameworks, define automation strategies and develop automated tests to validate the use-cases as per the product specifications, requirements and ensure its stability with ease of maintenance.Ensure comprehensive test coverage by working closely with the engineering and product teams to prioritize testing execution and report on test execution progress and results.Participate in design and specification reviews, and use this information to design test plans.Assist cross functional teams in troubleshooting and problem identificationPreferred Qualifications:Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s/Master\'s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related fieldShould have strong exposure to manual and automated API testingExperience with Karate, Selenium or Cucumber is a plus.6 to 9 years of working experience in web/mobile app testing and automationDemonstrate solid programming fundamentals, object oriented concepts and be proficient in one or more programming languages (like Ruby, Python, Java etc)Hands on experience with any one public cloud environment like GCP, AWS, or AzureProficient with Bash, Python, JavaScript or similar scripting language.Good knowledge of Networking and Operating system conceptsStrong analytical and problem-solving skillsHave a strong understanding of QA practices and approaches.Have strong troubleshooting and debugging skillsAbility to write test plans, test cases and test strategy documentsAbility to understand functional/technical specifications and analyze dataEnjoy working in a startup(agile) environmentRakuten provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type. Rakuten considers applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, provincial or local laws.

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