TestVagrant

Job Description - Sr. SDET

Creator of frameworks and tools that help engineering move fast. Advocates best practices. Metric & Data-driven in

decisions.

Do you thrive to help ship awesome software, not just prevent poor software from being released?

At TestVagrant we believe that shipping awesome software requires more than just testing and test automation. It

involves constant improvements to processes, tools, testing techniques, and approaches. It involves collaborating

with engineering & business teams, collecting metrics, analysing data, and innovating constantly.

If you're someone who champions & advocates quality, understands risks, and is courageous to drive the change,

then this position was made for you!

More about TestVagrant

We are a team of software consultants specializing in test engineering. We partner with our clients in their ambitious digital missions & integrate business, engineering, and technology to deliver quality software faster and safer.

As consultants, our goal is to ship awesome software. By expanding our identities and playing overlapping roles

across business, engineering & technology, we bring a deeper and more positive impact in amplifying business growth for our clients.

Our engineers have been building and contributing to open-source projects. Ekam.Studio and Optimus are a few to mention. Our thoughts and opinions are reflected in articles, blogs, and books.

You’ll spend time on the following:

● You will proactively seek out ways to avoid common software-testing problems such as test case duplication,

flaky tests, and maintainability

● You will pair including but not limited to devs, business analysts, engineering managers and operations to

identify gaps & improve team efficiencies

● Strive for quality to be baked-in and aspire to shift quality to the left

● Extend your passion for quality assurance practices to enable the engineering teams & coaches to adopt a

testing mindset.

● Spike, Compare and choose the right tools and eco-system for scalable and fast test automation

● Drive the creation of reliable automated testing frameworks with strong reporting capabilities that ensures

simple, effective analysis of failures for your team to use

● Capture metrics to measure the quality and make decisions that improve quality

The outcomes of this role include:

● The team is able to get faster feedback for changes and express confidence in safety-net

● The team is able to measure and gain insights into improvements to the product quality

● Team expresses increased confidence and trust in test assets

You’ll also spend time on the following:

● Storytelling and socializing the tech and engineering success stories across TestVagrant

● Take initiative and participate in others, that move organization forward, aligning with tech and engineering first culture

● Mentor the SDETs to grow in the direction of Sr. SDETs

● To achieve the above, most of the following experience is a must:

● You have worked as a Quality Analyst as part of a distributed engineering team, pairing with Devs, Business Analysts, and Infra teams

● You have championed the quality domain and are proficient in functional, non-functional, and exploratory testing techniques

● You have championed the testing domain and applied wisdom to prevent common mistakes

● You have collaborated with business and engineering teams to arrive at non-functional requirement

● You have contributed to various layers of the test pyramid

● You have designed, developed, and evolved scalable test automation frameworks from scratch

● You have proficiency in automation tools and techniques, including but not limited to Web, Mobile, and APIs

● You have the ability to pick up new tech stack and contribute to developing test assets

● You have worked with code coverage tools, linting, and static code analysers

Location: Bangalore(Hybrid mode)

●3 to 6 years of experience in Testing software applications

●Thorough Understanding of - Test life cycle & Defect life cycle

●Ability to understand requirements thoroughly, design, develop, execute tests and ensure test coverage

●Strong command in any one of the programming languages

●Experience with any of 2 Open Source testing tools like Selenium , RestAssured, Appium.

●Ability to understand the test automation framework concepts, Contribute to the development of automation frameworks and authoring automated tests

●Ability to quickly learn new technologies in a dynamic environment

●Understanding of GIT or equivalent

Mandatory Requirements:

●Bachelors and/or master’s in computer science or equivalent

●Excellent computer fundamentals, analytical and problem-solving skills

●Exceptional testing skills. Provide good attention to details

●Strong communication and collaboration skills

About the Company

TestVagrant is a software test consulting company with the goal to help companies accelerate the time-to-market of a product/service by using intelligent test solutions. TestVagrant specializes in strategising QA by using frameworks and solutions which are innovative and next-generation thereby helping companies deliver high-quality software at a fast-track speed.

Responsibilities:

• Ability to guide the technical strategy for our clients
• Passion for technical and team leadership and a willingness to mentor and work with testers at all levels of experience
• Ability to spike and choose appropriate automated testing tools for given problem statement

Requirements:

• Experience in Testing (manual and automation) of business software applications
• Exposure to Consulting Practices, Assessment, and Recommendations, Test Plan, Progress measurement, etc
• Expertise with Open Source testing tools and Enterprise tools
• Strong exposure to Java /.Net development environment
• Knowledge of Scripting Languages, like JavaScript, Python, Ruby, etc
• Great Object Oriented coding practices, including strong design patterns knowledge, Refactoring, Clean Code, Domain Driven Design, Encapsulation, etc.
• Extensive hands-on experience in creating test frameworks and strategy
• Exposure to version management tools like SVN or GIT
• Familiarity with automated deployment processes (CI & CD)

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in Testing (manual and automation)
• Experience with Open Source testing tools like Selenium, Appium, REST Assured.
• Strong command of programming language like Java
• Ability to write custom code to test applications
• Deep understanding and ability to implement OO Programming
• Experience in creating test strategy and frameworks
• Ability to spike and choose appropriate automated testing tools for given problem statement
• Exposure to version management tools like SVN or GIT
• Familiarity with automated deployment processes (CI & CD)