Big Data Developer

Appsmith is an open-source, low-code platform that helps developers build applications quickly, usually within hours. Since its inception, Appsmith has gained significant traction, with over 10 million downloads, more than 30,000 stars on GitHub, and adoption by 10,000+ organizations across 150 countries.

Our team is committed to delivering exceptional quality with Appsmith, delighting users, and setting a new market standard. We aim to create a product that users consistently rely on for building applications, distinguishing Appsmith from competitors. The product's perceived quality is crucial in shaping users' impressions of its reliability and performance.

A stable, resilient platform serves dual purposes: boosting user retention through dependability, and instilling customer confidence to tackle complex use cases. This confidence comes from Appsmith's ability to handle sophisticated requirements without compromising performance or reliability. The goal of the team is to iteratively identify and ship projects that improve the performance of Appsmith and help it support 10x of the current traffic in the future

Role Overview

As the Lead Engineer for the QA Team, you will define and implement an automation strategy that aligns with product goals and quality standards. You will oversee the test infrastructure, ensuring its maintenance, optimization, and scalability. The team currently uses Cypress for end-to-end testing, GitHub Actions for continuous integration and deployment, JUnit for Java-based unit testing, and Jest for JavaScript testing. You will be responsible for mentoring and upskilling the team in testing expertise. Your responsibilities will also include writing best practices and ensuring they are followed.

Additionally, you will develop processes and ensure adherence to them. You'll contribute to driving major engineering initiatives by defining quality metrics. You will be responsible for mentoring and upskilling the team in testing expertise and help QA engineers grow professionally. It will be your duty to ensure bug prevention through shift left testing and acting as a champion for quality within the organization. You will advocate for the adoption of quality-focused practices across all stages of the development lifecycle. You will work closely with QA, SDET, PM, and Engineers to ensure the success of the product.

Key Responsibilities

Test Automation Strategy:

• In this role, you will serve as the primary advocate for test automation best practices across the organization. You will establish, document, and enforce standards to ensure that automation efforts are consistent, efficient, and effective. A critical responsibility will be to enhance automation coverage while simultaneously reducing reliance on manual testing, with the goal of achieving near-complete automation.

Collaboration and Guidance:

• Collaboration with QA engineers and developers will be a key aspect of your role, as you work together to ensure comprehensive test coverage. You will be responsible for creating and maintaining automated tests while also guiding team members in integrating automation into their workflows. Additionally, you will educate the team on the benefits of test automation and demonstrate how to leverage it effectively.

Monitoring and Analysis of Test Results:

• Another important aspect of this role involves monitoring and analyzing test results by setting up robust reporting systems. You will identify trends in test failures and provide actionable insights to the development team. Using data from test runs, you will proactively address potential issues before they escalate and help prioritize development tasks.

Test Infrastructure Innovation:

• You will ensure that the test infrastructure remains robust, resilient, and scalable. This includes maintaining existing systems while planning for future growth and incorporating advancements in automation technologies and methodologies. Your goal will be to continuously improve the infrastructure to handle increasing complexity and scale, ensuring that the product maintains the high quality expected by its users.
• This position is central to driving automation excellence at Appsmith, enabling efficient testing workflows and maintaining product quality as the organization evolves.

Qualifications

Must have skills

• 8+ years of experience testing software through automation tools such as Cypress/Jest/Mocha/Playwright etc for a SaaS product. This experience helps you understand the software development life cycle and the pitfalls of buggy software.
• Since Appsmith’s integration test suite is written in Cypress or Playwright , prior knowledge of working on this framework will help you hit the ground running.
• Appsmith’s client-side code is written in React. Your understanding of contemporary browser frameworks such as React/Angular will ensure that you are able to understand and communicate the nuances of the product with the rest of the engineering team.
• Software products are only as stable as the APIs they are built on. You should have a good understanding of RESTful APIs and should have worked on API testing tools like Postman before.
• Being able to express your thoughts in code through JavaScript (JS) or TypeScript (TS) is essential to your success since Appsmith’s automation test suites are written in these languages.
• The ability to represent a user base in our automation suite is critical to providing a great experience to users.
• All automation suites require CI/CD pipelines and SQL databases. Familiarity with both will help you stand above the crowd.

Nice to have skills

• Having worked on developer-focused products is an added bonus. This helps you understand our users and their requirements better.
• Prior experience with unit testing through Jest/JUnit will help you break shackles and contribute to the code base across the board.
• At Appsmith we value speed and performance within our product. Being able to write load testing/performance testing scripts will go a long way in keeping our developer users happy.

Interview Process

As a small team, it’s imperative that we get to know each other before taking the leap. We want to ensure you succeed in your role within our team. Each conversation (video conference) with us will last about 45 minutes. Typically, the whole process takes between 5 and 10 business days, depending on your and our schedules.

• Hiring Manager Round: In a conversation with a hiring manager we'll discuss your prior work experience and your career aspirations, ensuring it aligns with our expectations for the role. Feel free to ask questions about the team, company, and product. Prepare by researching Appsmith, focusing on our product and UI editor. Hint: we appreciate people who have a critical viewpoint on our product. Our motivation internally is to be able to empathize well with our users.
• Technical Round: QA Best Practices and Problem Solving: In this interview round, candidates will participate in a live coding session where they will write Cypress tests for a provided user flow, using a pre-deployed version of Appsmith (without setting it up locally). The goal is to assess several key areas: whether the candidate follows good coding practices, implements Cypress best practices, and demonstrates effective debugging skills if issues arise. Additionally, we’ll evaluate their problem-solving abilities.
• CTO Round: This round, led by the CTO and will focus on collaboration and communication. Expect questions about how you have worked with engineering teams to solve complex QA challenges through teamwork, effective communication, and alignment with development processes. The goal is to evaluate how you collaborate with engineers to resolve issues, ensure quality, and contribute to successful product delivery
• Culture Fitment: In the final round, meet with one of Appsmith's executive co-founders. This is a culture-fit discussion, and you're encouraged to ask questions about our culture, mission, and strategy. It's a chance to understand the broader vision of Appsmith.

Why Join Appsmith?

• Mission: Be part of a mission-driven company that solves problems that you can relate to. We are on a mission to help developers quickly build & deploy high-quality internal apps.
• Team: We believe in hiring experts for every domain to create a culture of collaboration, innovation, creativity & diversity. Be part of a time that inspires you every day.
• Impact: Play a key role in shaping the future of our platform and delivering features that directly impact our customers' success.
• Flexibility: We believe in unlocking productivity by giving individuals freedom. Work remotely from the EU or India with flexible hours to suit your work style.

If you are passionate about building powerful, user-friendly tools for developers and are an expert in your domain, we would love to hear from you.

Benefits

• Productivity: Work from anywhere with a budget to set up your home office.
• Flexibility: Work how you are most productive with flexible holiday schedules & work timings.
• Growth: Keep growing with a budget for books, courses & conferences.

• You have experience with two or more development languages preferably Java or Python and React, etc 
• You can skillfully write high-quality, well-tested code and you are comfortable with Object-Oriented programming
• Comfortability with Agile methods, such as Extreme Programming (XP), Scrum and/or Kanban
• Bonus points if you have working knowledge of cloud technology such as AWS, Azure, Kubernetes and Docker

Quality Assurance Engineer                                                                GormalOne LLP. Mumbai IN

Job Description

GormalOne is a social impact Agri tech enterprise focused on farmer-centric projects. Our vision is to make farming highly profitable for the smallest farmer, thereby ensuring India's “Nutrition security”. The use of advanced technology drives our mission. Our technology will be highly user-friendly, for the majority of digitally naive farmers. We are looking for people keen to use their skills to transform farmers' lives. You will join a highly energized and competent team working on advanced global technologies such as OCR, facial recognition, and AI-led disease prediction amongst others.

We are looking for a QA Engineer to assess software quality through manual and automated testing. You will be responsible for finding and reporting bugs and glitches. This QA Engineer will work with our team of talented engineers to design and build the next generation of our mobile applications. Android programming works closely with other app development and technical teams. If you are also competent in executing test cases and are passionate about quality, we’d like to meet you.

Location: Bengaluru

Responsibilities

• Review and analyze system specifications.
• Collaborate with QA Lead to implement effective strategies and test plans.
• Work with cross-functional teams to ensure quality throughout the software development lifecycle
• Contribute to the design and architecture of high-quality, complex systems and software environments focusing on mobile development, automation, and quality aspects.
• Measure level of effort during sprint planning, work with the product team to commit to team delivery of sprint deliverables, validate acceptance criteria, and help define acceptance criteria with the product.
• Write test cases, manage test suites, create and execute a test plan, update test cases on requirement updates, regression testing, exploratory testing, and work for the general performance, security, and maintainability of the mobile (iOS & Android) and web app.
• Perform API level testing.
• Create and execute Automation scripts
• Take ownership of software defects from discovery through to closure.
• Analyze test logs; create test reports, coordinate with stakeholders
• Follow the Scrum process, participate in Scrum ceremonies and follow the incremental delivery model.

Preferred Requirements

• • Experience of 2-5 years in App testing
  • Experience with IDE like XCode and Android Studio.
  • Experience with Selenium WebDriver is preferred.
  • Familiarity with JIRA, GIT, SQL, and databases.
  • Familiarity with both Linux and Windows environments.
  • Understanding security fundamentals (e.g., authentication, cryptography) is desirable.
  • Knowledge of BDD framework or cucumber framework.
  • Knowledge of API Testing tools such as SoapUI, and Postman.

Kindly note: Salary shall be commensurate with qualifications and experience

(Job Code: BNSAN1)

No of Positions: 2

Purpose of Position:

Requirements management is one of the core skills of business analysts. Developing technical solutions to business problems, or to advance a company’s sales efforts, begins with defining, analyzing and documenting requirements. Managing requirements at the project level can help fulfill business needs. Skilled business analysts also use requirements to drive the design or review of test cases, process change requests, and manage a project’s scope, acceptance, installation and deployment

Accountability:

The Business Analyst is directly accountable to the VP of Operations. The Business Analyst will undergo a yearly performance appraisal.

Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Lead Role:

• Assisting with the business case

• Planning and monitoring

• Eliciting requirements

• Requirements organization

• Translating and simplifying requirements

• Requirements management and communication

• Requirements analysis

1. Responsibilities:

• Implementing advanced strategies for gathering, reviewing and analyzing data requirements

• Prioritising requirements and create conceptual prototypes and mock-ups

• Mastering strategic business process modelling, traceability and quality management techniques

• Applying best practices for effective communication and problem-solving

Qualifications and Skills:

Becoming a successful business analyst takes core business skills and specialized knowledge that will advance a firm’s objectives, and contribute to its remaining competitiveness in a complex economy. Business analysts are typically required to assess and validate their activities and to determine if a solution has fulfilled the requirements and achieve the business benefits in areas of workflow & customer relationship management.

1. Written and verbal communication, including technical writing skills

1. Understanding of systems engineering concepts

1. The ability to conduct cost/benefit analysis

1. Business case development

1. Modeling techniques and methods

1. Leadership Skills

1. Excellent math and organizational skills

1. Professional, courteous and positive manner

1. Ability to set priorities and manage multiple task functions simultaneously