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.