IN_Senior Associate_Funtional & Automation Cloud Tester_Digital Integration_Advisory_Kolkata

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**Line of Service** Advisory **Industry/Sector** Not Applicable **Specialism** Microsoft **Management Level** Senior Associate **Job Description & Summary** At PwC, our people in software and product innovation focus on developing cutting-edge software solutions and driving product innovation to meet the evolving needs of clients. These individuals combine technical experience with creative thinking to deliver innovative software products and solutions. In quality engineering at PwC, you will focus on implementing leading practice standards of quality in software development and testing processes. In this field, you will use your experience to identify and resolve defects, optimise performance, and enhance user experience. \\*Why PWC At PwC, you will be part of a vibrant community of solvers that leads with trust and creates distinctive outcomes for our clients and communities. This purpose-led and values-driven work, powered by technology in an environment that drives innovation, will enable you to make a tangible impact in the real world. We reward your contributions, support your wellbeing, and offer inclusive benefits, flexibility programmes and mentorship that will help you thrive in work and life. Together, we grow, learn, care, collaborate, and create a future of infinite experiences for each other. Learn more about us . At PwC, we believe in providing equal employment opportunities, without any discrimination on the grounds of gender, ethnic background, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, religion or other beliefs, perceived differences and status protected by law. We strive to create an environment where each one of our people can bring their true selves and contribute to their personal growth and the firm’s growth. To enable this, we have zero tolerance for any discrimination and harassment based on the above considerations. " Funtional & Automation Cloud Tester We are looking for experienced software testers with: \\*strong analytical and problem-solving abilities \\*willingness and to learn new technologies, tools and adapt to changing project requirements \\*ability to prioritize tasks and manage time effectively to meet deadlines \\*good verbal and written communication skills \\*ability to work collaboratively in a team setting Responsibilities • Design and implement testing strategies for cloud-based infrastructure and DevOps environments, ensuring reliability, scalability, performance, and security of cloud applications, services, and deployments. • Bridge the gap between development, testing, and operations by integrating quality assurance practices into CI/CD and automation processes. • Design and implement automated testing frameworks and CI/CD pipelines. • Understand and analyze requirements, specifications, and acceptance criteria to design effective test scenarios. • Analyze infrastructure and deployment specifications to create comprehensive test scenarios covering functional, performance, and security aspects. • Design detailed and comprehensive test cases based on identified scenarios and validate cloud infrastructure components and DevOps toolchains. • Execute functional test cases to validate functionalities; identify, document, and report defects in appropriate tracking tools. • Perform regression, load, and performance testing to ensure changes to the applications do not adversely affect existing functionalities. • Perform validation of monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure operational readiness and stability in cloud environments. • Develop and maintain automated testing frameworks for infrastructure-as-code, container orchestration, and cloud-native applications. • Build and enhance automation scripts and frameworks to increase test coverage and reduce manual intervention in testing cloud infrastructure. • Integrate automated test suites seamlessly into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous testing and fast feedback loops throughout the deployment lifecycle. • Maintain thorough documentation of test cases, test results, defect reports, and key testing metrics for continuous improvement and audits. • Collaborate with test leads, development teams, business analysts, and other stakeholders to resolve issues. • Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including cloud architects, developers, security analysts, and release managers to resolve quality issues. • Perform cloud security testing including IAM policy testing, encryption validation, and VPC/firewall rule testing. • Validate compliance requirements including GDPR, HIPAA, SOC2, and PCI-DSS standards. • Perform cloud scalability testing including auto-scaling validation and load balancing tests. • Measure latency, throughput, and response time across cloud services. • Leverage monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, and AWS CloudWatch. • Perform migration testing including on-premise to cloud migration validation. • Conduct disaster recovery (DR) testing including failover, backup, and recovery testing. • Perform serverless testing for Lambda, Azure Functions, and Cloud Functions. • Identify cost-effective test environment strategies for cost optimization. • Validate SLAs including uptime, availability, and reliability verification. • Perform chaos engineering using tools such as Chaos Monkey, Gremlin, and LitmusChaos for fault injection testing. Skill sets • Cloud security testing including IAM policy testing, encryption validation, and VPC/firewall rule testing • Perform cloud scalability testing including auto-scaling validation and load balancing tests • Measure latency, throughput, and response time across cloud services • Validate monitoring, logging, and alerting systems for operational readiness and stability • Leverage observability tools such as Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, and AWS CloudWatch • Perform mig