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Pearson is the world’s leading learning company, with over 41,000 people in more than 70 countries, helping people of all ages to make progress in their lives through all kinds of learning.

Pearson owns brands such as Financial Times, Penguin and Pearson Education with overall revenue of over $9.4 B in 2011. 

We are Pearson Lanka, a core part of Pearson's global Learning Technologies team. We build and manage some of the industry leading cloud based learning platforms that serve millions of students across the world. Over the years, we have built a strong Agile Development team, and we are now looking to expand aggressively over the next 12 months.  The industry leading cloud-based technology platforms of Pearson help educate more than 30 million students across the globe.

The 150+ strong engineering team based out of the Colombo office works dedicatedly to service Pearson technology companies located in North America, Europe and Australia.

At Pearson, we aim to be the best company to work for in the world. It is part of our philosophy to provide benefits, profit share plans, development opportunities and a culture that beats anywhere else. If you are 'always learning', and have a passion for technology and creativity, send in your resume and join our exciting engineering culture.

ROLE:

• To act as the technical specialist in the project team and assist the Lead in making decisions with regards to test strategy and appropriate tools/ techniques to be used in a project.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Adhere to company and project standards and guidelines.
• Review Requirements, clarify uncertainties and make sure clarifications and changes are communicated to necessary parties.
• Is responsible for designing, implementing and reviewing Automation/Performance scenarios.
• Effectively communicate with product team and stakeholders on product issues and resolve them.
• Mentor SQE team members on technical matters, and groom the technical expertise within project teams.
• Support the Pearson Lanka SQE interview and Recruitment process.
• Help Project SQE Lead to analyze project metrics, identify trends and take corrective action, reformulate strategies as necessary.
• Contributes to the Pearson SQE trainings and initiatives.
• Be actively involved in at least one specialist group.
• Experienced in at least one Performance test tool or Automation test tool and should be able to support the Project team on Automation or Performance testing.
• Helps on manual testing whenever required.
• Contribute to the company quarterly technical journals, and helps in reviewing the technical articles published in these newsletters whenever needed.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

• BSc in Computer Science or related discipline or equivalent professional qualification.
• Minimum 2 years in Senior QA Engineer designation and playing a Senior QA Engineer role in a Technical QA capacity for at least 1 year.
• Thorough knowledge on Software Quality Assurance and testing.
• Excellent Analytical, Problem solving skills.
• Ability to self-learn and grasp the knowledge quickly.
• Knowledge in at least one programming language.
• Having good exposure at least in one of the following areas;
• Test Automation
• Performance Testing
• App Security
• Environment and Deployment
• Backend Testing / DB
• Unit and Integration Testing
• Good knowledge of software development, the software development lifecycle and awareness of the industry trends.
• Ability to adapt and work in multiple projects and project structures.
•  Ability to be self-motivated and work independently in a team based environment.
• Ability to work under pressure and in high stress situations.
• Should have an aptitude in reconciling business requirements with testing requirements with help of other stakeholders.
• Should have the ability to think creatively in finding technical solutions to problems.
• Should have good time management skills and optimistic attitude.
• Good knowledge and experience in practicing Agile/Scrum.

Please use the apply button below to send your application to us.