BCG X is the tech build & design unit of BCG. Turbocharging BCG's deep industry and functional expertise, BCG X brings together advanced tech knowledge and ambitious entrepreneurship to help organizations enable innovation at scale. With nearly 3,000 technologists, scientists, programmers, engineers, and human-centered designers located across 80+ cities, BCG X builds and designs platforms and software to address the world's most important challenges and opportunities. Teaming across our practices, and in close collaboration with our clients, our end-to-end global team unlocks new possibilities. Together we're creating the bold and disruptive products, services, and businesses of tomorrow.
Practice Area Profile

What You'll Do

As part of BCG X you will work closely with consulting teams on a diverse range of advanced topics. You will have the opportunity to leverage software development methodologies to deliver value to BCG's Consulting & BCG X (case) teams, BCG X Product teams and Practice Areas (domain) through providing software developer subject matter expertise, and accelerated execution support.
You will collaborate with teams to gather requirements, specify, design, develop, deliver and support software solutions serving client needs. You will provide technical support through deeper understanding of relevant software solutions and processes to build high quality and efficient technology solutions. Assignments will range from short term Proof of concepts/Minimum viable product to long term cases with enterprise grade software development as a critical enabler through the project level description of the role responsibilities and impact within the organization.

Quality Assurance:

Understands and implements best-fit approaches to testing to ensure that applications and new features are work as expected
Maintains knowledge base of manual and automated testing
Strong problem-solving and follow-up skills; must be proactive and take initiative
Create and execute reusable automated / manual test cases and translate business logic into project requirements
Develop testing best practices, and an emphasis on security best practices
Leverage technologies to support business needs to attain high reusability and maintainability of current and newly developed systems
Understanding of available automation tools and how/when they should be used
Write effective unit tests and integration tests to ensure high-quality software delivery
In-depth understanding of Executing System and Regression Testing; Awareness of performance testing tools in an Agile environment
Work independently on quality / testing tasks with minimal supervision

Business requirement gathering and collaboration:

Establish credibility by thought partnering with highly demanding stakeholders / consulting teams on web development and delivery topics; drawing conclusions on a range of external and internal issues and dependencies
Executing software testing approach and creating defined outcome; contributing to approach selection
Assuring proper sign-off before uploading materials into internal repository for reference; sanitizing confidential client content in marketing documents
Contributes to team's content & IP development

Problem Solving:

You should be strong in solutioning with hands-on experience in software testing. Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to think creative ways to assure defect leaking to production.

What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)

Technical Skills:

Must have strong experience

Experience working with an automated testing tool (Selenium or an off-the-shelf tool).
Exploratory testing experience

And workable knowledge of

CI/CD, DevOps tools
Postman or Other API testing tools

And familiar with

Automation testing tools like Cyprus, PYTest
Performance testing tools like JMeter or Akami.
Comfortable writing Python, JavaScript or other scripting language.
In building high-performance web applications using - NodeJS, Python + Flask, Django, React, Angular 2+, JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3
Leveraging SQL-Postgres for best performance
On OOPs concepts, design patterns, responsive UI and Unit testing frameworks like Mocha, Jest, Jasmine

Job Requirement:

Bachelor's / Master's degree in computer science engineering/technology or equivalent
Develop, maintain and execute test cases as per the test plan
Work with upstream and downstream application teams to execute E2E test cases
Reporting and track defects to closure
Contribute to continual improvements
Excellent communication skills

Work Experience:

At least 1-3 years of end-to-end web - application/tool development experience in a commercial setup specifically services or consulting organization
Additional weightage for contributions made to open source projects, blogs, forums etc. in relevant technologies

YOU'LL WORK WITH: Our technology consultants and specialists partner with our clients and colleagues to build and implement digital solutions through a broad spectrum of activities. Technology jobs and engineering jobs include design of IT architectures, large-scale transformation, agile development, software engineering, cybersecurity consulting, and risk management.