About the job
Add the Middle East to your global professional experience and have the opportunity to work on some of the leading Digital Transformation programs. Virtusa is one of the fastest growing IT Services companies in the Middle East with a growing client base in the UAE, KSA, Qatar & Oman and we work with the leading Banking and Financial Services, Travel, Telecom and Enterprises firms in the region. We have partnered with our clients to win awards from Gartner, IDC, WfMC and other analyst for the work that we have delivered to our clients in the region. Why would you not like to be part of this exciting and award-winning team? Don’t listen to us, listen to our customers(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrDNtTLKkPc; & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhzhZt1GJvM) Teamwork, quality of life, professional and personal development: values that Virtusa is proud to embody. When you join us, you join a team of 30,000+ people globally that cares about your growth — one that seeks to provide you with exciting projects, opportunities and work with state of the art technologies throughout your career with us.
Role: Lead Software Engineer
Skill: Fullstack - Nodejs, ReactJs, Typescript, Microservices, Banking (Crypto payments)
Description
- Experience Minimum 5 years of coding and automation testing experience in JavaScript technologies.
- At least 1 year hands-on in TypeScript.
- Experience in Automation Testing Techniques and Tools e.g., Playwright / Cucumber / Appium/ Selenium
- Technical Skills Excellent knowledge in development and testing scalable and highly available Restful APIs / Microservices using Javascript technologies
- Able to create end to end Automation test suites using Playwright / Selenium preferably using BDD approach.
- Practical experience with GraphQL.
- Well versed with CI/CD principles, and actively involved in solving, troubleshooting issues in distributed services ecosystem
- Understanding of containerization, experienced in Dockers, Kubernetes.
- Exposed to API gateway integrations like 3Scale.
- Understanding of Single-Sign-on or token-based authentication (Rest, JWT, oAuth)
- Possess expert knowledge of task/message queues including but not limited to: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Pushpin, and Kafka
- Functional Skills Experience in following best Coding, Testing, Security, Unit testing and Documentation standards and practices
- Experience in Agile methodology.
- Effectively research and benchmark technology against other best in class technologies.
