Senior - Manual QA in Virtual Backup (Maternity Cover) at Acronis International GmbH

Acronis is a world leader in cyber protection - empowering people by providing them with cutting-edge technology that enables them to monitor, control, and protect the data that their businesses and lives depend on.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior - Manual QA in Virtual Backup (Maternity Cover)

Location: Abuja
Work Type: Full Time

Description

• We are in an exciting phase of rapid-growth and expansion and looking for a Senior Developer in Test / Automation QA to cover for our colleagues while on maternity leave.
• Our team is responsible for integration of the company flagship product Acronis Backup with various virtualization platforms, in order to perform backup and restore operations with virtual machines (and hypervisor hosts). Here you will be working on various challenging issues from various fields, such as:
  • Figuring out in-depth work of VMware ESXi, Hyper-V, Virtuozzo and other hypervisors to address platform-specific issues
  • Performing integration with Azure, Google, Oracle, Amazon clouds, XenServer platforms
  • Deep understanding of file systems management and parsing (FAT, NTFS, Ext, XFS, ReFS)
  • Understanding the boot sequence of operating systems to ensure bootability across different virtualization platforms during VM backup and restore
• Every member of our “A-Team” has an instrumental role and impact on the success of Acronis innovative and growing business, so we are looking for someone who enjoys working in dynamic, global teams and thrives in a fast-paced and rapidly changing work environment. Just like everyone at Acronis, the ideal candidate will embody all of our company values: responsive, alert, detail-oriented, makes decisions, and never gives up.

Responsibilities
What You'll Do:

• Testing of client-server applications designed to cover backup/recovery of virtualization environments
• Analyze feature requirements, verify product functionality alignment with the requirements
• Design, deploy, install, provision, troubleshoot, and maintain of internal virtualization infrastructure used for testing
• Close collaboration with development teams leaders and architects to understand product requirements
• Develop, maintain and execute manual tests according to functional specifications and other design and product documentation
• Work closely with other teams to assist with troubleshooting of virtualization-related problems: evaluate and analyze issues, performance, and other metrics in order to provide recommendations for product improvements
• Interacting with automation team: preparing test analytics for automation scenarios; run and analyze automated test launch results
• Diagnose, solve and provide root cause analysis for application/hardware/OS/networking related issues
• Analyzing customers’ issues and investigate their root causes and participate in technical discussions with RnD team

Requirements
What You Bring (Experience & Qualifications):

• 3+ years of experience as a QA Engineer
• Deep knowledge of Quality Assurance theory: principles, methodologies and techniques
• Strong understanding of website development methodologies and quality processes
• Understanding of REST/JSON web services
• Proficiency in both Linux and Windows operating systems with knowledge in installing, configuring and troubleshooting
• Experience in test-cases development and reporting
• Understanding of basic concepts of computer architecture, data structure and IT security
• Familiar with Virtualization systems
• Knowledge of basic programming/scripting principles would be an additional advantage
• Analytical mindset
• Detail oriented, efficient and organized
• Ability to work independently as well as a part of a team
• Upper-Intermediate English.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.