Associate Consultant

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Design & build test harnesses for Automation Testing.
• Design test automation framework and develop the new test automation libraries; Should be very much hands on with tools like Selenium, Appium etc.
• Design & execute Regression Test Pack using frontend & backend test scripts.
• Design and Develop the Automated solution for Sanity Testing for various repeatable tests.
• Implement QA process and Automated testing for all the workstreams to improve the overall testing cycle
• Participate in the development and support of the testing program aimed at supporting multiple testing efforts simultaneously.
• Be a part of an ongoing effort to bring new testing knowledge into the team.
• Assist with test plan articulation, planning, and management of individual testing events.
• Utilize appropriate testing tools for both front-end and back-end Quality Assurance.
• Identify testable events and develop the test cases/test scripts.
• Identify and capture test data to support the test cases defined by the testing team.
• Leverage the testing process and test tool kit to create reusable test assets.
• Should have basic knowledge on integrating API Keys for AI tools.

Key Requirements:

• 2-5 years experience of relevant Industry experience. 
• Good understanding of QA methodology, automation expertise, and ability to code
• Experience with Selenium-Web driver, Selenium Grid, Selenium Page Object Model, Page Factory concept
• Experience in designing and implementing test frameworks (like Data driven, Keyword driven or Hybrid along with custom reporting) and strategy for choosing automated testing tools
• Awareness of OO programming (Classes/Methods, etc.)
• Ability to work both independently and in a team environment.
• Must possess critical thinking skills in addition to good interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to function in a demanding environment;
• Ability to assume the perspective of customers and their users and serve as their advocates
• Experience in Appium, Cucumber, Rest Assured, Karate would be an added advantage.

Responsibilities:

• Involvement In Creating of the Test Cases, Test Scenarios and Test Data.
• Preparation Of Test Strategy.
• Involvement In Database Testing
• Responsible for GUI and Functional Testing, using Black Box Testing Techniques.
• Involvement in Test Execution, Result Analyzing, and Defect Reporting.
• Involved in Analyzing the Requirements and Communicating with BA Team for a Better Understanding of the Requirements.
• Responsible For Test Deliverables, Prioritizes and Monitors Activities to Meet Such Dates for Assigned Features
• Identified Test Cases and Test Data
• Execution of Test Cases From JIRA.
• Performing Functional Testing and Regression Testing, Integration, Testing, Sanity Testing.
• Identifying Test Cases for Automation.
• Reviewing the Automation Script

Skills:

• Proven experience as a Quality Assurance Tester or similar role
• Experience in project management and QA methodology
• Familiarity with Agile frameworks and regression testing is a plus
• Ability to document and troubleshoot errors
• Working knowledge of test management
• Excellent communication skills
• Attention to detail
• Analytical mind and problem-solving aptitude
• Strong organizational skills
• BSc/BA in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

Job Description:

QA automation is a key component of Kaplan's ability to quickly launch high-quality, innovative education products to our students. As an integral member of a cross-functional Agile team, you will use industry-standard tools and frameworks to conduct functional and performance testing on web applications, mobile applications, and APIs.

In this role you will:

• Develop automated mobile application test scripts that are robust, performant, and maintainable using Appium, Espresso, XCUITest or other tools.
• Ensure that applications and APIs developed by the team are reliable and meet user’s needs
• Work closely with developers, designers, and devops to meet team commitments
• Manage the timeline and status of the software release process
• Work with the Tech Lead to improve software development and quality assurance processes
• Provide the product owner with information they need to prioritize features (e.g., effort estimates, alternatives, technical risk)
• Work closely with developers to learn implementation details about product feature and perform releases
• Provide production support of software products by investigating and recreating reported defects
• Work closely with stakeholders to implement with different types of Performance Testing like : Load Testing, Stress Testing, Volume Testing, Capacity Testing, Reliability Testing

You must have:

• Minimum 5 or more years of software testing and quality assurance
• BS/MS in a relevant field (Computer Science, Engineering) or equivalent experience
• A Good understanding of the mobile devices, their peripheral devices, networks etc.
• A Good understanding of the Android and iOS designs and its components.
• Hands on experience with emulators, simulators.
• Hands on experience by testing mobile app performances with automation application testing tools.
• Well versed with different types of Performance Testing like : Load Testing, Stress Testing, Volume Testing, Capacity Testing, Reliability Testing. etc
• Experience in developing end to end system level automation and tools design
• & development
• Experience with mobile automated testing frameworks, such as Appium, Espresso, or XCUITest.
• Strong experience working with Selenium WebDriver either with TestNG, Junit or Nunit.
• Hands on Experience in building automation framework for Android and IOS.
• Good experience & knowledge of any one Language Java or Python/C#.
• Experience with API testing and performance testing with tools such as JMeter, Rest Assured or Soasta
• Familiarity with standard web and mobile architectures, both hardware and software
• Drive adoptions of best practices in code, testing and maintainability.
• Proficient with Devops and concept for example : Jenkins, Git and Docker
• Familiarity with Amazon Web Services is a plus.
• Experience with the entire software lifecycle - requirements capture, analysis, design, implementation, quality assurance, deployment, and maintenance
• Perform Mobile test task estimation, test execution, Regression testing, Functional System testing
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Good analytical and problem solving skills
• Be motivated to meet commitments and deliver the highest value possible

• Test current products and identifying deficiencies
• Suggest solutions to identified product problems 
• Investigate product quality in order to make improvements to achieve better customer satisfaction
• Plan, create and manage the overall Quality Planning strategy
• Collaborate with the Product Development team to ensure consistent project execution
• Identify quality assurance process bottleneck and suggest actions for improvement 
• Oversee continuous improvement projects 
• Collect quality data 
• Identify key KPIs for product quality

About OpsCruise

Digital business is driving a fundamental shift to cloud-native applications, creating a new set of operational and performance challenges ill-suited to the currently available solutions. At OpsCruise, we imagine a world of autonomous operations and are innovating a fundamentally different approach to performance management. OpsCruise’s vision is to automate the performance assurance of cloud applications using a model-driven closed-loop platform.

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Team

The OpsCruise team represents a global and talented team that includes domain experts in IT Operations, Networking, Storage, Hyperscale Systems and AI/ML that have built market-leading solutions at companies such as Cisco, Google, Hitachi, HP, Infoblox, Oracle and VMWare among others.

Our engineering culture values creativity, pragmatism, honesty, and simplicity to solve hard problems the right way.

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Role

We are looking for a Senior QA Engineer who will join our team building and rolling out our SaaS platform in the cloud AI/Ops space.

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Our Technology Stack

Our product involves the following technology areas with one or more tools in use in each area:

1. Container technologies, including creating Docker plugins and extensions
2. Serverless technologies including instrumentation, addons
3. Orchestrators including Kubernetes, OpenShift, Mesos, Swarm
4. Metric generation and collection including Prometheus and tools such as Dynatrace and Datadog
5. Tracing including OpenTracing, Jaeger
6. Graph tools and Databases including neo4j, JanusGraph, TinkerPop/Gremlin
7. TimeSeries databases such as Prometheus, OpenTSDB
8. NoSQL and Indexing tools such as MongoDB, Cassandra, Solr and Elastic
9. Languages including Java, Scala, Javascript, Python, R, and Go
10. Messaging tools including Kafka, Akka
11. Big Data tools including HDFS, YARN, Spark, Flink
12. AI/ML techniques including Statistical Analysis, Classification, Deep Learning, etc.
13. Cloud services: AWS, GCP, and Azure, their services in databases, networking and ML tools
14. High performance User Interfaces including AngularJS, Vue, D3.js and local stores
15. Authentication and Authorization including tools such as Okta and KeyCloak.

Responsibilities

1. Understand user level requirements, write up the test strategy, derive test plan and test cases in detail.
2. System and integration testing with automation of test cases using Python or Java.
3. Use test frameworks such as Robot Framework.
4. Use traffic generator tools such as JMeter for performance testing
5. Set up the target test environments in AWS, Azure or GCP
6. Containers based environment setup with Kubernetes and Docker, monitoring tools setup with Prometheus
7. Debug incidents and issue to narrow down to a root cause
8. Understand and reproduce internally issues reported by customers

Qualifications

The ideal candidate must have the following qualifications.

1. B.E/B.Tech Degree from a reputed institution with at least 4 years of relevant experience.
2. Hands-on experience with test automation using Python or Java.
3. Experience with test frameworks such as Robot Framework or TestNG.
4. Traffic generation tools usage such as curl-loader or JMeter
5. QA engineers for Networking Technology products such as switches, routers, L4-L7 products testing can also apply.
6. Knowledge of public clouds, AWS, Azure or GCP, is desired
7. Working knowledge in Kubernetes, Docker or Openshift environments required
8. Hands on experience with Linux
9. Strong problem solving and debugging abilities
10. Familiarity with continuous integration tools such as Jenkins or CircleCI
11. Interest in machine learning (ML) and data science is a plus

Most importantly, you should be someone who is passionate about building new and innovative products that solve tough real-world problems. 

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LOCATION

Chennai, India