Job Description

Senior Quality Test Engineer III

Are you an experienced quality engineer with a ‘can do’ attitude and enthusiasm that inspires others? 

And are you eager to work on delivering high quality products to our customers?

About our Team:-

The Research Data Platform (RDP) is Elsevier’s core data platform for research content and analytics. It provides high‑quality, well‑governed data about documents, works, people, organizations, funders, concepts and indicators, and the relationships between them. RDP ingests and normalises data from multiple sources, links and enriches that data, and exposes it through reliable services and data products that power flagship products such as Scopus, SciVal, Pure, Digital Commons and others. It combines product, engineering, operations and data science teams to deliver shared capabilities like data ingestion pipelines, matching and disambiguation, curation tools, analytics, and MLOps. RDP is organised into cross‑functional domain teams (for example Document, Sources, Works, Person, Organization, Funding, Concepts, Indicators and Consumption), supported by platform and foundations teams providing common infrastructure (AWS, Kafka, Databricks, DSM, Kubernetes), shared utilities and standards for data quality, observability and ways of working. Each team owns a set of services and data products end‑to‑end, from design and build through to operation and continuous improvement. For a Quality Engineer and a Developer, this means working in close partnership with product managers, data scientists and operations colleagues: designing and evolving services and pipelines, putting robust automated testing and quality gates around data and code, and helping ensure that RDP delivers reliable, scalable, secure data capabilities that other Elsevier products can safely build on.

About The Role

This is a position in Quality Assurance responsible for leading the development and execution of performance and automation testing solutions. This position works with management to apply automation strategy and to plan and execute effective and efficient performance and automation testing to accomplish on-time and efficient delivery of high-quality software products and/or data.

Responsibilities:-

Innovate process improvements that enable efficient delivery and maintenance with consistent direction.
Research available tools and lead or participate in initiatives to identify and implement those that will cost-effectively enhance testing capabilities and product quality.
Identify areas for cooperation with other teams to improve overall quality and, with peers or others, implement initiatives improving testing capability and efficiency.
Configure, maintain, and/or administer testing tools or environments.
Develop and execute automated and performance testing for assigned projects to successfully and consistently enable delivery of high-quality software products and services on time, on budget, and to specification.
Interact with Product Management, Project Management, Engineering, and Operations teams to plan testing for delivery of products and enhancements and to assure products meet product requirements and quality standards.
Maintain flexibility to react quickly to changes in priorities or circumstances to meet the needs of the business.
Plan and execute automated and performance tests working with QA/Testing staff, project managers, technical leads, and subject matter experts.
Report issues and results, researching and identifying root causes as appropriate, documenting accordingly.
Ensure that testing addresses requirements as agreed with other stakeholders.
Research available tools and participate in initiatives to implement those that will cost-effectively enhance testing capabilities and product quality.
Identify opportunities to apply existing automation or other tools to meet testing needs.
Research and identify root causes of performance issues in partnership with architects, developers, and network and system engineers.
Maintain awareness of the state of the industry and evaluate emerging trends/developments that may benefit the organization.
Conduct project reviews, ensuring review criteria are defined, and implementing procedures for ensuring quality control of project deliverables.
Cooperate in the enhancement of the methodologies employed for test planning and execution, defect tracking, and metric and status reporting.
Lead or participate in continuous improvement initiatives and implementation of best practices.
Maintain framework for record retention in order to support internal and external IT audits.
Work across teams to enhance quality assurance/testing and help to develop/execute performance and automation testing throughout the business as appropriate.
Identify areas for improvement and, with leadership, peers, or others, implement initiatives improving overall capability and efficiency.
Ensure results of root cause analyses are addressed.
Maintain flexibility to react quickly to changes in priorities or circumstances to meet the needs of the business.
All other duties as assigned.

Requirements:-

5+ years of Quality Test Engineering experience

BS Engineering/Computer Science or equivalent experience required
Strong understanding of QA methodologies.
Strong knowledge of process improvement.
Strong knowledge of the software development process.
Advanced written and verbal communication skills.
Experienced QA testing skills.
Ability to develop and execute complex automated and performance testing.
Basic understanding of working within budgets.
Understanding of industry trends.
Strong research skills (tools/root cause analysis).
Exhibits innovative approaches to process improvement.
Strong written and oral communication.
Administration of testing tools/environments.

Work in a way that works for you: -

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. With an average length of service of 9 years, we are confident that we offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, family leave and tuition reimbursement, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and long-term goals.

Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.

Working for you: -

Benefits

At Elsevier, we know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

Group Health Insurance Policy (covering self and family)
Group Life insurance/accident policy
Generous long-service awards
New Baby gift
Subsidized food provided (applies to India- Chennai)
Casual Leave, Sick Leave, Privilege Leave, Compassionate Leave, Special Sick Leave, Gazetted Public Holiday and Maternity/Paternity Leave
Free Transport provided to and from the office (applies to India-Chennai)

About Us: -

A global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice. At Elsevier, your work contributes to the world’s

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