Automation Test Lead

We’re in search of an experienced QA Team Leader to handle testing of the company’s product or system. As QA Team Leader you will be responsible for designing and implementing tests, debugging issues, performing root-cause analyses, defining corrective actions, and tracking quality assurance metrics. You will be responsible for our student test engineers to follow up and coach them. Dare to make a difference and have an impact from Day One!

Job Profile:

Role and responsibility

• Create detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured testing documentation.
• Allocate work across the team to ensure business requirements are met.
• Design and execute test plans, test cases, and test scripts for functional, regression, and performance testing.
• Establish QA metrics, goals, and objectives in alignment with organizational objectives.
• Manage the QA testing environment, including configuring test environments and maintaining test data integrity.
• Expert in the API testing.
• Proficient in the database testing
• Experienced with J Meter
• Participating in daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning, and sprint retrospectives.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product development, engineering, and customer support, to identify quality issues and drive resolution.
• Conduct thorough testing of software applications, systems, and products to identify defects and ensure adherence to quality standards.
• Stay current with industry trends and best practices in software quality assurance and testing methodologies.

Skills and qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering.
• Min 6 years of experience in software testing
• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies and tools
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to lead and motivate a team of testers
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and meet deadlines
• Experience with test management tools (e.g. JIRA, Quality Center)
• High effectiveness in managing cross-functional teams.
• Having experience in automation testing will be an added advantage like selenium, APM, Rest Assured/Karate Framework, Jenkin

About Company :-

Our Client is the world’s largest media investment company and is a part of WPP. In fact, we are responsible for one in every three ads you see globally. We are currently looking for a Manager -Social to join us. As part of the largest media agency in India, you’ll have the opportunity to leverage the scale that comes with the job. You will become an integral part of this growing team and will be working with both internal teams and external parties to ensure campaign delivery objectives are met.

This team is responsible for delivering international solutions, particularly in APAC & EMEA, with some global influence. You will enjoy working in a collaborative team environment and will hold a ‘can do’ attitude with the passion to learn and grow.

At APAC, our people are our strength, which is why fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion is important to us.

Key Responsibilities:

- Lead QA team for effective testing, validation, and verification.

- Implement QA processes and standards.

- Design and execute test plans, cases, and automated scripts.

- Utilize SQL, Excel, and Python for data analysis and testing strategies.

- Validate data across platforms and reports.

- Analyze data for system improvement.

- Monitor and report key quality metrics.

- Develop and maintain process documentation.

Requirements

- Bachelor’s degree in CS, IT, Engineering, or related field.

- 3+ years of QA experience.

- Proficient in SQL, Excel, and Python.

- Strong knowledge of QA methodologies and tools.

- Experience in commerce or digital marketing preferred.

- Demonstrated leadership skills.

- Excellent problem-solving and communication.

- Proactive in task optimization.

- Systems approach to problem-solving.

- Strong attention to detail.

Candidate should have 5-7 years of experience in both manual and automation testing. Candidate should have atleast one year experience as a lead of a QA team.

Candidate should be self motivated and passionate and should have clear understanding of agile/scrum processes

Requirements -

• Bachelor’s Degree with 0-3 years of industry experience as an automation tester in Selenium/Python and Appium/Python
• Hands on Experience in designing highly reusable and efficient Automation Test framework design in Selenium/Python and Appium/Python and able to maintain/support an automation framework
• Experience in building and adhering the automation processes/standards and guidelines to meet code quality benchmark and robustness of overall framework for future maintenance
• Experience in developing high-quality test automation suite in a cross-browser environment
• Experienced in working with different Data Types, Variables, Operators, Flow Control Statements, and Methods
• Ability to handle exceptions, File I/O, API interactions and Database Operations
• Good understanding of QA methodologies, software testing life cycle and processes.
• Good knowledge of different types of Element Locators, Inspecting Elements and Selenium WebDriver API Commands or Methods
• Rich experience in failure debugging and writing clean & efficient code with strong SQL skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience in building end to end automation scripts with code modularity and reusability

Preferred -

• Experience in Automation development in an agile environment
• Working knowledge of test management tools Visual Studio/JIRA
• Responsible for maintaining latest code artifacts in version control systems like GIT.
• Experience in setting up and configuring test environments is highly preferred
• Ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions
• Expertise in database testing including designing and manipulating test data, validating stored process, jobs, triggers and replication.
• Experience with functional testing of web and Android/iOS App.

• Knowledge of various testing techniques and the ability to use them in practice (at least 4 years of practical experience)
• Strong analytical and interpersonal skills with the ability to work independently and collaboratively.
• Intermediate programming experience in one or more of the following languages: Java, C#, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python
• Hands-on experience in frontend, API and/or database test automation: Selenium, Cypress, Serenity BDD, REST API testing, Cucumber
• Experience with defect tracking/management tools such as JIRA.
• Demonstrated experience with industry standard Quality Assurance best practices for Agile and Iterative SDLCs, testing methodologies, implementation, and deployment activities.
• Experience in every-day use of version control system (git)
• Experience in testing in a continuous integration environment Jenkins/TeamCity, Maven
• Basic knowledge of SQL
• Working experience in creating test documentation (Test Plan, test report, basic test metrics)
• Experience in working with requirements
• As a consultant, ability to effectively cooperate with the client and/or end users
• Fluent English in speech and writing (frequent communication with English-speaking clients)

• Must have strong knowledge of the programming language (Java).
• Experience in performing performance tests using dedicated tools (e.g. Jmeter)
• Experience in performing usability and/or security tests
• Experience in mobile testing, cloud migration testing or data integrity testing
• Team leading skills
• Ability to design test strategy for a project

• Understand functional and non-functional testing requirements (for UI, API, and Database) for web, mobile, and mobile web applications.
• Understand and document test automation requirements for functional and non-functional (including load, stress, and performance) testing
• Develop frameworks to test UI, API services, and databases
• Develop and execute automated test scripts using a pre-defined framework
• Participate in test automation code reviews
• Good understanding of testing platforms such as TestNG and automation tools or help develop custom tools used for integration testing purposes
• Work with build automation tools such as Maven
• Design, implementation, and execution of load, performance, volume, and scalability tests using industry-standard tools
• Identifying performance bottlenecks and making recommendations for performance tuning
• Raise PR and merge code into local and master branches, as required
• Collaborates with other quality and development engineers to build, evolve, and maintain a scalable continuous build and deployment pipeline
• Troubleshooting Jenkins, test failures, and build configurations
• Work closely with members of the development team to solve any issues identified. This includes deploying diggable build in test environments, understanding and debugging application code is required to resolve any blockers.

Requirements

• Programming language (one or more) - Java, Python, JavaScript
• Unit testing - Junit
• API or UI test automation tools and frameworks - Selenium, Appium, Rest Assured, Postman, SoapUI, Karate, Robot
• Performance testing tool - JMeter
• Database - SQL
• Configuration management - GIT
• Build management - Maven
• Continuous Integration - Jenkins

• 2-5 years of experience in Manual and Automation testing for Cloud based Web and Mobile Application
• Experience with automation design, scripting, and execution
• An understanding of requirements analysis, design, coding, and unit testing of scalable, distributed, Cloud based applications
• Familiar with agile or other rapid application development
• Expertise in testing API's and debug application issues through API
• Exposure in Continuous integration process implementation by building CI / CD Pipeline using Jenkins and Integrate with Mavens
• Expertise of coding and programming skills in Java / Python
• Solid understanding of software design principles for Building Test Frameworks;
• Think out of the box coming up with creative test design automation frameworks to build / utilities plus tools to develop
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Ability to work in a results-oriented, rapidly changing, dynamic and fast-paced environment that requires collaboration across multiple stakeholders and constituents