Lead Software Development Engineer - (QA)

About Barco

Barco designs technology to enable bright outcomes around the world. Seeing beyond the image, we develop visualization and collaboration solutions to help you work together, share insights, and wow audiences. Our focus is on three core markets: Enterprise (from meeting and control rooms to corporate spaces), Healthcare (from the radiology department to the operating room), and Entertainment (from movie theaters to live events and attractions). We have a team of 3,600 employees, located in 90 countries, whose passion for technology is captured in 400 granted patents. As part of GEAX organization which is the Software product development group at Barco our vision is to be a world class software team partnering with our businesses to offer successful software solutions and outcomes that delight our customers and set the trend in our dynamic markets.

About Image processing group @ BARCO

The demand for extremely high-resolution, video-based installations that impress audiences with an exceptional visual experience is growing. That’s why digital image processing, screen management, and show control are key. 

Barco provides event professionals and themed venue owners with a very complete range of image processing software and hardware solutions. Unbridled creativity and ultimate ease-of-use, that’s what our processors are all about. The power and flexibility can be used in different applications from live shows to meeting environments and from auditoriums to television studios. The only limit is your imagination.

About the Role

As a Senior engineer (QA), you will get to work in a fast paced, collaborative environment responsible for architecting, designing, developing and testing cutting edge on-premise & connected cloud applications. You will be responsible for authoring test plans, designing, automating and executing different functional and non-functional test scenarios. You will need to collaborate, as needed, with entire geographically distributed team. You will be the overall incharge of quality of the product.

 Key Responsibilities 

• Perform system, regression, and performance testing to ensure delivery of high-quality system
• Develop effective test strategies and test plans using tools like PTC Integrity
• Coach colleagues for effectiveness in test strategy, processes
• Collaborate with Developers in geographically distributed environment

• Collaborate with global test team to ensure timely quality system release
• Experience in creating test strategies and manual test execution
• Execute test cases in local/QA environments and document results.
• Raise, track, and validate bugs in JIRA.
• Write test cases in PractiTest based on requirement analysis.
• Estimate efforts for testing tasks and prepare test/release plans.
• Develop/maintain automated scripts (Playwright, TypeScript).
• Manage CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions) for test execution.
• Analyze automation reports and proactively fix failing tests.

• Share test progress, risks, and blockers with stakeholders

Preferred Skills and Experience

• B.Tech./B.E/M.Tech in computer science or equivalent stream
• 8 - 15 years of experience working in an R&D environment
• Excellent interpersonal, communication skills
• Excellent team players
• Attitude to learn new skill and work on stretched goals

Must have skills

• Proficiency in test automation using Playwright and TypeScript/JavaScript.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
• Expertise in test case design, execution, and defect tracking (PractiTest, Testuff, JIRA).
• Strong requirement analysis skills for epics/stories to derive test scenarios.
• Ability to test in local and QA environments (cross-browser/cross-platform).
• Experience maintaining automation frameworks and fixing flaky tests (e.g., outdated locators).
• Skill in effort estimation for test case creation and automation tasks.
• Strong analytical, communication, and documentation skills for reports/release plans.
• Collaboration experience with Product Teams for requirement refinement.
• Expertise in testing REST API's
• Ability to learn new languages and technologies
• Experience in linux concepts
• Good understanding of release processes
• Good team player who can work with cross cultured geographically distributed teams
• Critical thinker and problem solving skills
• Strong mentoring and coaching skills
• Self-motivated and result oriented, autonomous worker
• Working experience with geographically distributed teams preferably Europe, US
• Experience with Agile development Methodology (SCRUM)
• Continuous Integration through Jenkins
• Open to travel for short duration

Skills nice to have

• Domain knowledge in the entertainment industry (e.g., image processing, projection mapping).
• Knowledge of Jenkins master-slave configurations
• Familiarity with additional frameworks (Cypress, Selenium) or cloud platforms (AWS, Azure).
• Basic understanding of performance/security testing
• Strong proficiency in Python, Selenium and OOPs concepts, jmeter, javascript
• Good experience in testing microservice
• Very good Experience in testing SAAS based products deployed on AWS/Azure cloud platform
• Experience how docker works and create images using dockerfile/docker compose
• Node.js, Angular.js
• Knowledge of networking concepts
• Embedded domain experience
• Experience in C/C++

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