QA Engineer - Cloud

ALTEN DELIVERY CENTER MOROCCO, a subsidiary of the global leader in engineering and technology consulting, founded in 2008 and present in Fez, Rabat, Tetouan, and Casablanca, currently employs more than 2,300 consultants and aims to have a center of excellence of 3,100 ALTEN consultants by the end of 2024. With more than 90 recruitments per month, ALTEN Morocco is now a major player in the professional integration of engineers. We support our clients, industry leaders, in their development strategies in the automotive, rail, IT, R&D, and Telecoms & Media sectors.

Joining ALTEN MOROCCO means benefiting from:

· Diversified career paths with career opportunities, internal, sectoral, geographic, and professional mobility.

· Certified and diploma-based training.

· Regular events to combine well-being and performance.

As a Senior QA Engineer, you will join the IAAS Product Quality Assurance Team.

The role of the QA team is to continuously control/improve the quality of the Cloud IAAS product (MPI). As such, it is a central team that works across the board, managing the testing activities, environments, measurement, best practices and providing support for the users and the component teams.

Involved from the design of developments to the production, the team’s goal is to achieve the expected level of quality of service while allowing the enrichment of the offer to meet the customer’s needs.

A Senior QA Engineer works closely with:

• The QA lead to execute the test strategy, report on testing activities & defect status
• The product owner to find/report gaps in the business logic and ensure that the software is creating value for the customer
• The developers (AZURE and AWS Competency Centers) for the BAU acceptance testing and the bugs fixing
• The entity experts for support purposes, demos, and documentation

The objective of Senior QA Engineer is to make sure that delivered product is matching the specifications, requirements as well as the group standards (security, audit...) by applying the principles and best practices of software quality assurance.

In this role you will:

• Review requirements, specifications, and technical design documentation
• Build detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test cases for automation testing.
• Develop and maintain automated test scripts for functional regression coverage.
• Diagnose, track, and manage defects to resolution always related with automation scope
• Collaborate with the broader team to identify, understand, and resolve the root cause of defects and customer escalations.
• Ensure that all assigned project deliverables meet the quality objectives in functionality, usability, integration, regression, performance, stability, security, and compliance.
• Maintain up to date documentation about automation tests

• University degree (engineer profile) with Proven work experience in software quality assurance (at least 3-5 years)
• Knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes (ISTQB certification is highly recommended)
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process.
• Have experience in JIRA, Confluence and Github.

Proven ability to thrive in a matrixed, multi-cultural and global environment. 

Attitude

The person will have to manage the complexity of a global organization operating in a decentralized organization. Goals can only be achieved through:

• Comfortable interacting with a variety of stakeholders involved in the projects.
• Embracing of the new AXA values and new ways of working with courage to promote them against tradition.
• Strong change management skills with practical experience of transformation in an international environment
• Strives for excellence with deliverables of high quality and ability to work in sometimes tight planning.
• Demonstrates to be a strong team member with a collaborative mind-set.

Technical skills :

• Good knowledge and hands-on experiences in the Cloud, ideally for both provider AWS and AZURE for infrastructure resources such as servers, storage, network, database, cloud security, PaaS, etc
• Knowledge and experience on GitHub Actions, TerraGrunt, TerraTest, AWS SDK,Azure Goland SDK
• Requires understanding of the Quality assurance best practices with a good level of expertise (ISTQB certification is highly desired)
• Good Object-Oriented Programming & REST APIs understanding
• Hands-on experience with automated testing tools and technologies knowledge (Java, Spring, Selenium, Testing, Maven, - or similar), Terraform knowledge.

Transversal skills :

• Problem solving, strong analytical skills.
• Excellent writing and oral communication skills
• Ability to work in a matrix environment.
• Communication skills (both oral and written)
• Considering the multi-cultural environment, a fluent English knowledge in speaking and writing is mandatory.