Software QA Engineer- Automation

Gen is a global company powering Digital Freedom through consumer brands including Norton, Avast, LifeLock, Avira, AVG, Reputation Defender, and CCleaner. Our combined heritage is rooted in providing safety for the first digital generations. We bring leading technology solutions in cybersecurity, privacy and identity protection to more than 500 million users in 150 countries so they can live their digital lives safely, privately, and confidently today and for generations to come. We're always looking for smart, fearless, and dedicated people. Together, we have collective passion and a big vision to power Digital Freedom by protecting consumers and giving them control of their digital lives. When you’re a part of Gen, you are provided access to a range of resources and support to ensure you can do your best work and live your best life. This includes flexible working options with generous time off and competitive benefits & compensation packages. Diversity is foundational to how we do business because we know the greatest ideas and results come from our unique perspectives and differences. We strive to create a safe, inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. Team members are valued, respected, and celebrated for who they are in a meaningful and exciting atmosphere. Gen is an equal employment opportunity employer. Employment decisions are based on merit, experience, and business needs. If this sounds like you—Gen has a dynamic, supportive culture with core values that celebrate diversity, promote teamwork, and encourage every team member to contribute and grow—join us!

About the Role

As a QA Engineer you will be responsible for automated (mostly) and sometimes manual end to end testing web applications for www.nortonlifelock.com. As a QA Engineer you will be part of a team responsible for delivering high quality web application software and you will contribute to delivering reliable, scalable and stable releases. You will play an active role in the day-to-day developing, execution of software test plans, planning, sustaining, execution of manual and automated tests by following QA best practices and troubleshooting issues and work closely with development teams to resolve problems.

What You Will Do in This Role

• Automated testing websites which are on Adobe AEM platform.

• Test websites across different devices using exploratory techniques.

• Build, Design, Execute and Document automated tests.

• Write automation, performance tests in any scripting languages.

• Perform planned and ad-hoc manual testing as an when needed.

• Identify and automate appropriate test cases using tools & QA frameworks.

• Participate in meetings & reviews with customers and team members.

• Work closely with cross functional team to get the requirements for testing type.

• Investigate bugs by using available application and server logs, browser developer tools (Firebug, etc.), databases, and other tools and resources.

• Support deployments and maintenance activities.

What You’ll Need to be Successful in this Role

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field with minimum 3 years of relevant work experience or master’s degree in computer science or related field with minimum 2 years of relevant work experience

•  3 years of hands-on programming and automation testing experience.

• Experience in Automation Testing with any Content Management Systems (AEM is preferred).

• Experience with any of the languages like Java, Perl, Ruby, Python, JavaScript.

• Experience with frameworks such as JUnit, TestNG, Selenium, Cucumber, Robotium, JMeter.

• Understanding of web applications: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, HTTP protocol, REST API, cookies/sessions, browser differences.

• Experience with QA testing customer facing web applications.

• Experience with accessibility, security performance and automated testing.

• Excellent general QA skills like test plan creation, test case development, defect analysis and reporting, test automation.

• Experience on unit testing, regression, smoke testing, end to end testing.

• Excellent knowledge of formal SDLC, and QA methodologies.

• Experience with cross-browser, cross-platform and mobile device testing.

• Hands on experience with tools like Jira, Jenkins, Git, Stash, Perforce, Confluence, Nexus etc.,

• Deep familiarity with DevOps processes and CI/CD tools/processes is strongly preferred

• Demonstrated history of learning new skills and tackling new challenges.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.

• Ability to