Software Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 10, 2026. First seen by Alion on Nov 10, 2026. NielsenIQ scores B on the Alion truth index.
We are looking for a Senior Automation Test Engineer to design, build, and maintain automated test suites for a consumer data-processing platform. The platform includes an Angular and Spring Boot management application, batch pipelines, and Oracle-backed workflows. You will own end-to-end UI automation, regression and smoke suites, and the containerized test infrastructure that runs them in CI/CD.
Roles and Responsibilities
UI and End-to-End Automation
- Design and maintain Playwright E2E test suites for Angular screens, covering navigation, forms, grids, filters, exports, and button-driven actions.
- Build page objects, screen orchestrators, and centralized locator libraries so tests stay maintainable as screens change.
- Maintain legacy Selenium WebDriver regression and smoke suites, and plan their migration to Playwright where it adds value.
- Validate role-based access and LDAP-protected screens across environments.
Unit, Component, and API Testing
- Write and review Jest unit tests for Angular components and services, using MSW (Mock Service Worker) to mock backend APIs.
- Maintain JUnit 5 and JaCoCo test coverage for Spring Boot REST controllers, services, and repositories.
- Create API-level checks for REST endpoints, including request validation, error handling, and session behavior.
- Maintain BDD scenarios with Behave for batch and data-validation workflows.
Regression, Smoke, and Data Validation
- Develop and run regression and smoke suites that validate production-readiness after each release.
- Write Oracle SQL to verify data completeness, reconciliation, and business-rule outcomes after batch runs.
- Validate job submission, status transitions, and output files produced by KSH-orchestrated pipelines.
- Maintain test datasets and environment setup and teardown routines for repeatable runs.
Test Infrastructure and CI/CD
- Build and maintain Docker images for Playwright, Maven, and regression test runners.
- Integrate test suites into GitHub Actions workflows, including pull request gates and release-branch checks.
- Maintain Bash and KSH scripts for test orchestration, environment preparation, and report collection.
- Publish test reports and coverage to SonarQube and manage test artifacts through Artifactory.
- Support test execution across Dev, QA, UAT, and production-like environments.
Quality Strategy and Collaboration
- Define test strategies, risk-based coverage plans, and acceptance criteria with product owners and developers.
- Triage failing tests, distinguish test defects from product defects, and drive root-cause analysis.
- Track coverage, flakiness, and defect trends, and act on them to improve suite reliability.
- Review automation code from peers and mentor engineers on test design and framework practices.
Document test strategies, framework usage, and execution procedures
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of professional experience in test automation for web and backend systems.
- Hands-on experience with Playwright (any language binding) for E2E UI automation, or strong Selenium WebDriver experience with a willingness to adopt Playwright.
- Solid experience with Jest or a similar JavaScript/TypeScript unit testing framework, including mocking with MSW or equivalent.
- Experience with JUnit 5 and Maven or Gradle for Java-based test suites.
- Working knowledge of Docker for containerized test execution.
- Experience with GitHub Actions or a similar CI/CD platform.
- Strong SQL skills, including joins, aggregations, and reconciliation queries; Oracle experience preferred.
- Proficiency with Linux and shell scripting (Bash or KSH) for test orchestration.
- Solid understanding of test design techniques, regression strategy, and defect lifecycle management.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Angular applications and their testing patterns.
- Experience with Spring Boot applications and JaCoCo coverage reporting.
- Familiarity with Behave (BDD) or Cucumber.
- Experience with Selenium Grid or cloud-based browser execution.
- Experience with SonarQube, Artifactory, or similar quality and artifact tooling.
- Exposure to performance testing tools such as JMeter, Locust, or k6.
- Knowledge of consumer panel data, retail measurement, or analytics-delivery platforms.
- Familiarity with GitHub Copilot or other AI-assisted test-generation tools.
Our Benefits
- Flexible working environment
- Volunteer time off
- LinkedIn Learning
- Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)
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About NIQ
NIQ is the world’s leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. In 2023, NIQ combined with GfK, bringing together the two industry leaders with unparalleled global reach. With a holistic retail read and the most comprehensive consumer insights-delivered with advanced analytics through state-of-the-art platforms-NIQ delivers the Full View™. NIQ is an Advent International portfolio company with operations in 100+ markets, covering more than 90% of the world’s population.
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