Infor is the third largest provider of enterprise applications and services, helping 70,000 customers in 194 countries improve operations, drive growth and quickly adapt to changes in business demands. Infor offers deep industry-specific applications and suites, engineered for speed, using ground-breaking technology that delivers a rich user experience, and flexible deployment options that give customers a choice to run their businesses in the cloud, on-premises or both. For additional information, visit www.infor.com.
QA Architect for Cloudsuite QA
Detailed Description and Job Requirements
As a member of the QA Division, you will:
• Take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures.
• Suggest and justify product directions within approved directions.
• Define responsibilities for new projects and specifies, designs and develops software according to those specifications.
• Provide consultative QA and software guidance and strategic direction associated with the developing, designing and debugging of software applications or operating systems.
• Be an acknowledged expert/professional within company and/or industry nationally and internationally.
• Provide leadership in the development and strategic direction of new products, processes, techniques.
• Act as primary consultant on large projects that effect the organization’s long term objectives / strategy.
Preferred Qualifications
The person in this role will be responsible for jointly designing and developing software for Infor Cloudsuites QA in collaboration with other development and QA architects. In addition, the architect will be expected to have deep understanding of the design of features like hot patching, Provisioning and automation production redeployment and other essential elements of the Infor software stack, and to give explicit design input and test ability feedback.
This is a hands on role, taking new ideas from concept to cloud readiness, assessing that readiness, and the results. Leadership capability and experience are needed to influence others and to technically lead a team in this implementation.
Where current features don't meet our needs, new architectures should be proposed. To this end it is essential that candidates for this role have experience with other cloud technologies in the industry and be knowledgeable in the design trade-offs made by each solution.
Specific technical requirements include knowledge of disciplined QA processes, QA Automation tools, cloud technologies, and continuous integration practices. Knowledge in the accessibility, security and performance domains are a plus.
A strong candidate will have experience with the following:
- 10 years of QA architecture and/or Software Engineering experience with a cloud company.
- Prior hands on experience with SaaS and Cloudsuite or Cloud applications is required.
- Work with engineering professionals, architects and other stakeholders within Infor to ensure that the solution will scale appropriately and cost effectively.
- Mentor others on best practices in software testing strategies.
- Continuously improve Infor’s test automation practices at the unit, services/integration, scripts and UI layers.
- Help teams and individuals design a sound software testing strategy and work with developers and QA engineers from the architecture governance perspective during construction phase.
- Understand the Applications/ Platform in depth, evaluate and define all the security, performance, accessibility and integrations considerations in architecture.
- Document the test design in the form of a conceptual approach which will be used as the basis for sizing and the creation of detailed test design.
- Interact with QA Management, Development, Devops, Cloud Ops, Performance and Stress Teams and ensure all the system interactions and performance are considered throughout the service lifecycle.
-Good understanding of network configurations, including software defined networks.
-Ability to Design, develop, troubleshoot and debug software programs for databases, applications, tools, networks etc.
- Requires BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area.
Equal Opportunity Employer: The Company does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race color, creed religion sex, gender, identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, marital status, age, veteran status, protected veterans, military service obligation, citizenship status, individuals with disabilities, or any other characteristic protected by law applicable to the state in which you work.
In compliance with the ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA), should you have a disability and would like to request an accommodation in order to apply for a currently open position with Infor, please call (678) 319-8000 or email us at ADAAA@infor.com.
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