Senior Software Engineer (Test)

Senior Software Engineer (Test) – Cloud Alerting Services team

At Cloud Alerting Services team we’re dedicated to developing high-quality microservices and micro frontend services for Qlik Cloud Analytics. As a Test Automation Engineer, you’ll collaborate closely with developers to ensure the quality of our feature deliveries.

With an experienced team and a mature organization, you’ll find stability in your work environment, ample opportunities for growth and development, and the chance to influence our daily work and future directions.

If you consider yourself a skilled test developer, or even a developer, and are looking for a real challenge, this is a tremendous opportunity to make key contributions within a high-profile team for one of the best technology companies in data integration and analytics solutions.

What makes this role interesting?

• Develop deep cloud knowledge: Gain in-depth understanding of Qlik’s architecture and cloud infrastructure, particularly in AWS.
• Collaborative Environment: Work alongside developers and test engineers in a supportive team environment.
• Impactful Contributions: Ensure the quality of our feature deliveries, directly impacting our products’ success.
• Professional Growth: Benefit from stability, growth opportunities, and a chance to shape our future directions.

Here’s how you’ll be making an impact:

• Requirements Investigation: Assess how new requirements and features fit into the automation test suite as well as understanding scope and estimate risk. Work with relevant stakeholders to ensure that deliverables meet requirements.
• Test Case Implementation: Develop new test cases at integration and component levels as necessary.
• Test Planning: Create and execute comprehensive test plans. Present product quality on checkpoint meetings identifying risks, test gaps and test results.
• Environment Monitoring: Monitor test environments, investigating failures and performance issues.
• Automation improvement: Design, develop, and maintain functionality and infrastructure for the test tools and frameworks.
• Collaborative Approach: Work closely with team members, architects, developers, and stakeholders to achieve project milestones in an iterative and incremental development process.
• Quality Advocacy: Contribute actively to the future of quality and testing at Qlik by participating in our test community and playing a role in shaping our test strategy for ongoing improvement.

We’re looking for a teammate with:

• At least bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering and management or similar field.
• A genuine interest in SW architecture from an end-to-end perspective.
• Proficiency in at least one scripting/coding language.
• Experience with containerized deployments and orchestration tools (e.g., Kubernetes, Helm, Docker).
• Experience from working in cloud environments (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP) with knowledge in the domain of infrastructure, monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Strong understanding of software testing principles, methodologies, and best practices.
• The ability to articulate the current status, blocking issues, and task estimates. 
• The ability to work both as a team and as an individual. 
• A strong sense of responsibility and good at taking initiatives. 
• Excellent verbal and written English skills as the company language is English. 

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience using Agile software development methods like SCRUM or Kanban.
• Familiarity with metrics and monitoring tools like Dynatrace, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Experience in Test automation, API testing, and performance testing.
• Experience of using Git, Github, and Jira.
• Solid scripting and programming skills (JavaScript, NodeJS).
• Strong analytical skills, ability to find unconventional solutions to problems and open minded to innovation and new solutions. 
• A broad technical interest and like to stay up to date on the latest advances in the software field. 
• A true interest in taking initiatives and is serious about continuous learning. 

The location for this role is:

Lund, Sweden (hybrid)