Keysight Technologies Hiring for Software QA Engineer – Eggplant Job at Leatherhead, England Full Time

Who we are

Keysight is on the forefront of technology innovation, delivering breakthroughs and trusted insights to the world’s visionaries and innovators in electronic design, test, manufacturing, and optimization. Our ~14,000 employees create world-class solutions in wireless communications, 5G, automotive, quantum, aerospace, defense, and semiconductor markets for customers in over 100 countries.

We’re recognized Great Place to Work across the globe due to our robust culture and dynamic working environment. Our global team acts as “One Keysight,” using collaboration, inclusivity, and integrity to advance technology. We’re driven and curious, and we value all ideas, especially creative or imaginative ones. And our strong culture extends far beyond our own walls. We leverage our CSR framework to support our communities, nurture the next generation of engineers, and promote environmental sustainability. Our technical solutions – and our methods for creating them – help connect and secure the world. Learn more about what we do and how we do it.

About the role

We are looking for an experienced and eager QA Engineer to join our team, delivering ground-breaking new features. You will play an integral role in testing the functionality of our Eggplant products, focusing on the validation of new features, writing automated tests using state-of-the-art tools (including our own testing tools) and working with developers in the engineering team to resolve bugs and improve usability. This is an extraordinary place for a QA engineer to work as you’ll be at the heart of a team that aims to revolutionize test tooling.

• Creating test scenarios from user stories and acceptance criteria
• Manage a regression suite for our EggPlant products, including the release/signoff process
• Develop and drive advanced testing techniques for the project with the goal of improved quality and productivity
• Review and improve an automated test strategy for this multi-user, web-based application
• Ensure products and components function well to provide an exceptional user experience. Requires good understanding of process management and the ability to adapt to new platforms quickly
• Debugging failed tests and root-cause analysis.
• Provide input to the design and development process to improve testability, quality, and user experience
• Identify and raise issue reports for bugs

About the team

The Keysight Eggplant team help businesses to test, monitor and analyze their end-to-end customer experience across different interfaces, platforms, browsers, and devices — including mobile, IoT, and desktop — in agile, DevOps, and innovative application and data environments.

Job Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in a technical field.
• Relevant experience in a QA role.
• Relevant experience writing automated tests.
• Strong knowledge of software development life cycles, QA process and concepts.
• Working knowledge of testing web-based systems.
• Solid knowledge of Agile, Lean and XP development practices and good programming knowledge.
• Experience working with CI / CD and familiar with git.
• Familiar with databases and SQL

Desired Qualifications

• Comfortable working from the command line on Linux and Windows
• Experience with tools such as Kubernetes/Docker for deploying test environments
• Experience working with a GUI-based test tool, preferably EggPlant
• Familiarity with model-based testing
• Knowledge and experience in Selenium Webdriver or Cypress.
• Experience with AWS cloud platform (or Azure or Google Cloud Platform)
• Any familiarity with Python and/or particularly Pytest

Job Function

R&D