Automation QA lead

What is the role?

This position will play a primary role in planning, implementing, leading, and executing all aspects of Quality and Testing. The role requires hands-on QA expertise, ability to take initiative and develop and evolve our QA processes. The right candidate will be able to analyze the systems to determine what to test, the priority of those tests and the best way to test. You should understand the requirements and design test procedures and test cases for automated software testing.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish and evolve formal QA/testing practices, test processes, methodology, standards, and hygiene for agile development efforts.
• Lead and mentor QA team members.
• Lead the QA strategy, test design /plan, test automation, and drive test execution for a key strategic service delivery transformation initiative.
• Oversee all aspects of quality assurance including establishing metrics, applying industry best practices, and developing new tools and processes to ensure quality goals are met.
• Develop the strategy and enablement of User Acceptance Testing, partnering effectively with the business to ensure goal achievement.
• Respond to all requests from team members in a timely and professional manner.
• Design automated test scripts that are reusable.

• Ensure that all automated testing related activities are carried out as per the standards defined by the company.
• Negotiate, plan, and manage all release activities.
• Lead and co-ordinate the Go-Live activities including the execution of the deployment Plans and checklists.
• Communicate all key project plans, commitments, and changes including requirements, QA plans, schedule, and scope changes.

What are we looking for?

An enthusiastic individual with the following skills. Please do not hesitate to apply if you do not match all of it. We are open to promising candidates who are passionate about their work and are team players.

• 7+ years of experience in the software quality field including prior hands-on quality engineering experience.
• Demonstrated experience developing and executing test cases, scripts, plans and procedures to support various development methodologies.
• Familiarity with the entire software development life cycle and test cycles (Unit, Regression, Functional, Systems, Performance and Volume, User Acceptance).
• Understanding of multi-tier web application architecture and deployment.
• Understanding of existing QA best practices and methodologies to design, implement and automate processes.
• Prior success using a metrics-driven approach and closed-loop feedback to improve software deliverables and improve predictability and reliability of releases.
• Detailed and effective written communication skills for documenting the features tested and bugs found.
• Highly organized, detail oriented, extremely responsive, and able to prioritize a large number of tasks.
• Self-motivated, works well independently and with others.

Whom will you work with?

You will work with a top-notch tech team and report to the engineering head.

What can you look for?

A wholesome opportunity in a fast-paced environment will enable you to juggle between concepts yet maintain the quality of content, interact, share your ideas, and have loads of learning while at work. Work with a team of highly talented young professionals and enjoy the benefits of being with the company.

We are

A fast-growing SaaS commerce company based in Bangalore with offices in Delhi, Mumbai, SF, Dubai, Singapore, and Dublin. We have three products in our portfolio: Plum, Empuls, and Compass. Company works with over 1000 global clients. We help our clients engage and motivate their employees, sales teams, channel partners, or consumers for better business results.

Way forward

We look forward to connecting with you. As you may take time to review this opportunity, we will wait for a reasonable time of around 3-5 days before we screen the collected applications and start lining up job discussions with the hiring manager. However, we assure you that we will attempt to maintain a reasonable time window for successfully closing this requirement. The candidates will be kept informed and updated on the feedback and application status.

About Us:

We're a software development agency building compliant first IT solutions and products. Started in 2016, we have been primarily catering services to the financial companies based out of the US east coast. Our customers range from medium sized enterprises to small sized start-ups across a wide variety of verticals.

We're now a strong and professional engineering team with a breadth of experience, ready to build webapps and manage public cloud environments.

QA Engineer:

Required Skills

• Adept at understanding project requirements, assessing the test scenarios and designing and executing test plans
• At least 3+ years of relevant experience in manual and automation testing combined
• Should be proficient in testing both Web applications and Native mobile applications testing
• Should have knowledge on performance (Load) testing
• Should have a good understanding of modern development practices and the code workflow from development to production. 

Responsibilities

• You will help the team in building a reliable, high-quality automation & manual platform from scratch and test the all of Truemeds products for quality & stability
• You will help the team to set up test environments for automation & manual activities.
• You will be responsible for using the latest technologies to design and maintain automation & manual testing for existing and new products
• Manage efficiently a team of QA Engineers
• Coach and grow our automated and manual QA team members through mentorship, and participate in the hiring strategy and process
• You will be responsible for reliability for major products/releases and ensure all the product gets QA sign-off before release
• Check/review test cases, test plans, and test strategy and consolidate and share test results with various stakeholders.
• Ensuring all development tasks meet quality criteria through efficient test planning, test execution, quality assurance, and issue tracking.
• You will have to estimate, plan, and coordinate testing activities and Work closely on the deadlines of the project
• Ensure the team is focusing on automation along with manual testing.
• You will be a technology champion/mentor, and work with others to effectively use new technology to build effective automation.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software testing experience, 2+ years of management or mentoring experience
• 2 to 5 years of experience with API Automation testing
• 1 to 2 years of working experience in performance testing and load testing
• Minimum 2 years of hands-on experience performing cross-browser testing using any automation testing framework
• Experience in automation of Mobile Native and hybrid applications.
• Deep knowledge of test methodologies, writing test plans, creating test cases and debugging
• Experience managing a team of QA Engineers
• Proficient using tools like - Postman, Rest Client, Selenium, JMeter, JUnit, Appium etc
• Good understanding of eCommerce Domain
• Solid understanding of SQL and API testing experience doing data quality testing with large data sets
• Excellent communication as well as documentation skills

Work Location

• WeWork Chromium, Powai, Mumbai

Joining:

Notice period less than 10 to 15 days preferred.

• 5+ Years of experience in Product Feature Testing/ Functionality Testing UI & API, Functional and Non-Functional
• Must have previous experience with requirements, defect, functional, and performance management systems.
• Must have an understanding and ability to develop code in Java with good understanding in OOPs concepts 
• Strong experience in REST API testing Using Postman
• Manual testing experience - smoke testing, regression testing, sanity testing
• Experience in TestNG, Selenium, JMeter, Rest Assured
• Experience in Jenkins, GUT and Maven
• Hands-on experience with Linux, Windows, and/or mobile devices
• Experience in Test design 
• Should have experience in Localization and Internationalization
• God management and interpersonal skills

Bluespacelabs - Senior QA

Any location | 1-3 Years

Key Deliverables

• 1 to 3 years of experience in testing and automation
• Creating Testing methodologies, test strategy, test plans to evaluate the functional requirement and deliver the application with quality.
• Must have proven experience in testing and automation of web applications and mobile apps.
• Strong hands on experience in the automation framework selenium and appium.
• Experience in leading a team to perform automation testing using Selenium Java
• Product testing to validate the end-to-end functionality of the user stories.
• Functionality Testing should factor techniques to design test cases to ensure optimum test efficiency.
• API testing and automation and CI/CD
• Performed automation testing of API using automation frameworks like Restaaured, Postman.
• Creating and assisting the team to write Test Cases and Scripts
• Good understanding of the software architecture : Frontend MFE, MVC, Rest APIs
• Good leadership and communication skills

Testing Areas Coverage Expected

Unit Testing

Component Testing

• Micro-Frontend UI Components
• BFF Entities
• Biz Components
• Amazon MSK (Kafka) Configuration
• Persistent Data (read/write) Components
• Integration Testing
• System Testing

Functional Requirements

• End to End (User) Scenarios
• Browser Compatibility
• Usability

Non-Functional Requirements

• Performance
• Scalability
• Availability
• Reliability

Software and tools requirement

• Junit - Java
• JEST - Javasript/React
• JIRA - Bug Tracking
• Selenium with TestNG- UI Automation
• Appium with testing mobile apps
• RestAssured - REST API testing
• Traffic Parrot - Service virtualization
• Wiremock - API mocking
• Pact - Contract Testing
• Testcontainers - Containerized PostgreSQL/ MySQL
• Version Control - GitLab

• Work closely with the Delivery Manager and Sales team to understand client and project requirements and define the scope of the project.
• Prepare test strategy to deliver to the agreed scope within agreed timelines and budgets.
• Work with Delivery Manager and Resource Management Group to build the necessary team, either from the available internal pool or support hiring.
• Work with the Delivery Manager to develop the testing strategy.
• Understand the project delivery governance framework and ensure test planning, execution, and closure are done in accordance with the delivery framework.
• Prepare test plans to include timelines for activities and key milestones.
• Lead a team of 4-5 test engineers and work alongside test architects and SMEs.
• Work allocation to team members and monitoring performance and ensure completion of tasks by team members to agreed timelines.
• Coordinate system/application understanding sessions for team members with relevant client team member(s).
• Work with test architects to design, develop and maintain test automation framework, where required.
• Develop test automation suites, along with team members.
• Review output of team members for test coverage (functional) and in case of test automation framework and suites, review for adherence to good and efficient coding practices and coding standards, reusability, avoid redundancy and duplicity.
• Raise PRs and check-in code and in the process resolve any conflicts and sync issues.
• Ensure efficient versioning and maintenance of test automation code.
• Assist in troubleshooting and resolving technical and non-technical challenges and blockers faced by team members.
• Coaching and leading in practices like Pair Programming, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD), Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD).
• Be the go-to person / first point of contact for any project-related queries or concerns, for both client and internal stakeholders.
• Preparation and distribution of periodic project progress mails and reports to the client and internal stakeholders.
• Risk management – early identification of risks and mitigation, and where required invoke relevant and timely escalation and support.
• Preparation and/or review of documentation, required across all phases of the project.
• Mentor and guide team members in helping them grow professionally.
• Provide feedback about team members to the Delivery Manager for periodic performance appraisal.

Qualification and mandatory experience

• Graduate or Post-graduate, an engineering graduate is desirable but not mandatory.
• Minimum 7 years of total experience in manual and automation testing of which at least 3 years as a hands-on Test Lead with proven experience of leading at least a 3-member team.

Mandatory Skills

• Knowledge of software QA methodologies, processes, and tools for manual and automation testing.
• At least 3 years proven experience of leading a minimum 3-member team in manual and automation testing.
• Experience of working in an Agile environment and delivering in sprints.
• At least 3+ years designing, developing, and maintaining Test Automation frameworks and solutions across various technology stacks and applications for web, mobile, API, and data validation.
• Expert level experience in at least one programming language, Java is preferable but not mandatory
• Expert level experience in debugging.
• Expert level experience in developing web UI test automation suite using Selenium or mobile UI test automation suite using Appium.
• Expert level experience in developing API test automation suite using Rest Assured.
• Raise PRs and merge test automation code.
• Knowledge of CI/CD tools and pipelines.
• Experience in at least one build tool like Jenkins, Maven or Gradle and setting up a build pipeline and integrated testing.
• Code management using Github or SVN.
• Test and defect management using JIRA or any other tool.
• Preparation of test documentation across various phases
• Preparation and distribution of periodic progress reports to internal and external stakeholders
• Excellent verbal and written communication are quintessential.

Desirable Skills

• Junit and TestNG for unit testing.
• Espresso for Android app automation.
• XCUI test for iOS app automation.
• Experience in non-functional testing, e.g., load/soak/performance, security, and accessibility, by using standard and new testing techniques.
• Experience in testing applications across eCommerce, banking, and fintech domains.