Principal Quality Assurance Engineer

The SaaS Tools and Innovation (TINNO) team utilizes state-of-the-art technology stacks, advanced data analytics, and machine learning, to advance Oracle's internal tools.Specifically, our role is to further Oracle's goals through proactive, engaged interactions with customers and through providing key insights to Oracle, her partners, and her customers.**Responsibilities**:- Work within standards, acceptable practices, and other requirements of Oracle Corporation and of the SaaS Development organization.- Develop and execute test cases (manual and automated) for acceptance, integration, system and regression testing across multiple environments for production and maintenance releases.- Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including the below: coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.- Expert in software quality and testing methodologies.- Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work environment.- Debug and report regression issues to developers.- Communicate test progress, test results, and other relevant information to project stakeholders.- Document test results, report software bugs and verify fixes to ensure the acceptance criteria is met.- Manage testing progress and ensure that aggressive deadlines are met.- Work closely with the development and project management teams to ensure the product meets user and quality requirements and is released within schedule.- Proactively raise issues and problems to the attention of the team and suggest solutions.- Analyze features, functionalities, and determine the best approach and techniques to improve test case designs.- Continuously improve test coverage and test efficiency.- Anticipates customer needs and applies best practices and creative solutions.- Uses best practices to drive efficiency and productivity within the team.- Generates insights or creative solutions to complex problems.- Demonstrates attention to detail in all aspects of work.- Knows the business and understands metrics/key performance indicators required by self and/or team to deliver results.- Write unit and integration tests using testing frameworks like JUnit, Mocha, or Jasmine.- Implement automated testing strategies, including end-to-end testing.- Design and implement comprehensive testing frameworks, driving the adoption of best practices in testing and quality assurance.- Collaborate to implement QA strategy, ensuring integration into SDLC and DevOps processes.- Contribute by participating in test planning and executing test cases that support quality objectives.- Design advanced test scenarios and ensure automated testing aligns with business goals.- Lead automation initiatives and integrate automation frameworks within the CI/CD pipeline.- Develop and execute automated test scripts for repetitive testing tasks.- Conduct performance testing, analyze bottlenecks, and propose optimizations.- Execute performance test scripts and analyze load testing results.- Manage defect tracking and lead root cause analysis for major defects.- Log and track defects, assist in troubleshooting, and ensure proper resolution.- Collaborate with developers, product managers, and designers to ensure product quality.- Work with developers to understand requirements and ensure testing meets goals.- Suggest improvements to QA processes and tooling, participate in continuous improvement.- Provide feedback for process improvements and follow existing processes efficiently.- Develop quality reports and track key metrics throughout the SDLC.- Track test results, report defects, and provide updates on testing efforts.- Mentor junior engineers, improving their technical and testing skills.Learn from senior engineers and participate in knowledge-sharing sessions.Proficiencies- 7+ years of industry experience.- Extensive experience on both automation and functional manual testing.- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, detailed oriented, resourceful, initiative and creative.- Knowledge of software QA methodologies and tools like Jira and Confluence.- Experience writing and executing detailed test cases, test plans and test design documents.- Experience with Oracle SQL.- Experience with Web Service Testing using REST Service.- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.- Experience writing unit and integration tests using tools like JUnit, Jest, or Mocha.- Proficient in automated testing frameworks, test-driven development (TDD), and behavior-driven development (BDD).- Software Automation - scripting and/or programming using Java.- Knowledge of Kubernetes, Dockers, and microservice architectures.- Strong experience with testing Microservices, REST services, Database Functions and PL/SQL code, and UI.- Experience with load and performance testing tools.- Experience in automation