Market research is the original data driven business. Incubated and spun-off from a university, we have earned the trust of the world´s biggest companies and leading brands - for more than 80 years. Today, everything at GfK starts and ends with Data and Science
We are proud of our heritage – and our future: Currently we’re on a transformational journey from a traditional market research company to a trusted provider of prescriptive data analytics powered by cutting edge technology. In our Technology & Data organization, we are responsible for the entire lifecycle of our data-driven products.
You still think Market Research is about questionnaires aggregated with Excel?
Wrong!
Since we are providing high available data-driven software services on top of our big data environments to clients all over the world, a thorough QA is the key to our success.
This is only possible with extraordinary people.
And that’s why we are looking for YOU! A passionate QA Engineer (m/f/d).
Job description
As a QA Engineer (m/f/d), you will be playing a crucial role in the application lifecycle from the very beginning. As part of the agile development team, you will be driving the continuous testing strategy in your team in order to make sure that our software meets our quality standards.
From Test Case creation, execution and evaluation to test automation, you will make sure that your product development team is delivering high quality, highly tested and highly appreciated software to our clients.
Your responsibility is to ensure the functional quality of our software as integrated part of all agile activities during the software development lifecycle as well as providing strategic test methods for data quality management. This involves the implementation of a testing strategy with test cycles, phases and conditions, test automation and test case management processes backed by test frameworks in order to enforce QA standards and processes.
In addition, you define KPIs and processes to assess the validity, consistency, and accuracy of the data in close cooperation with our data science team.
In that position, you will be looked after by Jörg, who is an experienced leader of Software Engineering, IT Operations and Product Management teams with a passion for encouraging team members to exploit their individual quirks to the benefit of the team.
Jörg loves all sports, especially the ones including hitting something with a racket, so if you love sports too, you might be challenged to a match of mini ping-pong or foosball every once in a while.
Your specific tasks will include:
- You will provide guidance on complexity and testability of planned features
- You will improve our test strategy and coverage
- You will implement and run automatic testing processes for our software
products together with our Software Engineers and DevOps Engineers - You will monitor the QA coverage and report the status back to the product team
- You will help each team member to improve a little bit every day
We look for a profile with complementary skills, such as:
- Good understanding of Product Quality requirements
- Profound understanding on different software testing approaches test methodologies
- Good experience in the application of different test automation frameworks
- You are passionate about software QA and is interested in the challenges of data QA
- Used to work in agile Scrum teams, ideally experienced with SAFe
On top, your English communication skills are great, you are a team-player and tech-obsessed, always on the hunt for the latest and hottest shots!
Why else GfK?:
- Any advantages of a Global Player combined with an agile start-up atmosphere
- Annual budget to attend development programs and conferences
- Free language classes
- 30 days holiday per year (plus 24.12 / 31.12.)
- Flexible working hours and the possibility to work from home
- Occupational pensions
- Group Accident insurance also for private life
- Sports and health Management
- Childcare during the summer Holidays
- 5 days paid leave for each child sickness
- Subsidized Canteen / Meals and free coffee/water
- Visa Sponsorship and Relocation service to help anyone moving from abroad
Our doors in our newly built open-concept office space are open for everyone and we are free of stereotyped thinking. The power of our team grows with the variety of individual perspectives and that’s why we need YOU!
Let’s design and shape our exciting future together. Right here. Right now. Together!
Just send an email to Maximilian
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