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We are seeking a QA Automation Engineer Middle responsible for designing and executing test plans, performing various testing activities, and ensuring product quality. The role involves close collaboration with cross-functional teams, defect management, adherence to data privacy standards, and contribution to process improvements.

Our client is a global leader in the life sciences and healthcare domain, delivering innovative solutions that drive advancements in research and patient care.

Location: Bengaluru, India (Hybrid)

Job Title: QA Automation Engineer

Experience:

4–7 years overall experience in Quality Assurance, with 2–3+ years of solid automation scripting experience.

Job Responsibilities

• Analyze business and functional requirements to design clear, detailed, and effective test cases.
• Perform manual testing to validate functionality, usability, and compliance with requirements.
• Design, develop, and execute automation test scripts using tools such as Selenium, Pytest, Katalon, Cypress, UFT, or equivalent.
• Automate UI-based testing and API testing; exposure to performance testing is a plus.
• Conduct functional, regression, integration, and system testing across test cycles.
• Review, log, track, and document defects, test results, and resolution steps.
• Prepare and maintain test plans, test scripts, test data, and test reports.
• Ensure adequate test coverage across multiple environments and releases.
• Collaborate closely with developers, business analysts, and stakeholders to resolve issues efficiently.
• Participate in test cycle closure activities, including lessons learned and quality metrics reporting.
• Proactively suggest process improvements and contribute to continuous quality enhancement initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 2–3+ years of hands-on automation scripting experience; overall QA experience of 4–7 years is preferred.
• Open to working with Pytest, even if coming from a different automation stack.
• Strong understanding of SDLC, STLC, defect lifecycle, and Agile methodologies.
• Experience with automation frameworks such as data-driven, keyword-driven, or hybrid frameworks.
• Solid experience in manual testing, including functional and regression testing.
• Good exposure to UI and API automation; performance testing experience is a plus.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and debugging skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to produce clear technical documentation.

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary;
• Opportunities for professional growth and advancement;
• A cooperative and innovative work environment;
• 20 days of paid vacation, 15 paid sick days with a doctors note, and 5 paid sick days without a doctors note;
• Medical insurance coverage for employees, with optional family coverage at a corporate rate;
• Support for participation in professional development opportunities (webinars, conferences, trainings, etc.);
• Regular team-building activities and biannual company-wide events.

About Us

21 Knots is a design, engineering, and consulting firm providing services to the global maritime and oil & gas industry. In an industry constantly evolving due to dynamic regulations, economic fluctuations, and climate change mandates, we strive to deliver cutting-edge solutions with an unwavering commitment to excellence. Our comprehensive services are designed to create value for our esteemed clients while enabling them to achieve their business goals.

The Role

We’re looking for a skilled and motivated Software Developer to join our team at 21 Knots. Someone with backend development with a working knowledge of frontend technologies. The ideal candidate will have a strong command of backend frameworks such as Django, FastAPI, or Flask, and familiarity with frontend tools like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and optionally React, Angular, or Vue. You will play a key role in building, maintaining, and optimizing scalable software solutions while collaborating with a team

Responsibilities

• Develop,test, and maintain backend services using Django, FastAPI, or Flask.
• Design and implement RESTful APIs for web and internal tools.
• Work with relational and non-relational databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, or MongoDB.
• Optimize application performance and implement backend security best practices.
• Collaborate with frontend developers, designers, and cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.
• Support basic frontend development tasks using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Work with modern frontend frameworks like React.js, Angular, or Vue (good to have).

What You’ll Need

Experience:

• 1–4 years of hands-on experience in backend development.
• Exposure to full-stack development environments.
• Experience working with RESTful APIs, databases, and cloud integration is a plus.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.

Tools & Software Proficiency:

• Proficiency in Django, FastAPI, or Flask.
• Familiarity with PostgreSQL, MySQL, or MongoDB.
• Basic knowledge of frontend technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
• Exposure to Bootstrap or Tailwind CSS for responsive UI design.
• Good to have: experience with React, Angular, or Vue.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and Agile/Scrum methodologies is an added advantage.

Skills & Competencies:

• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.
• Understanding of RESTful architecture and secure coding practices.
• Ability to collaborate in a cross-functional environment.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.

• Responsible for overall AOP target achievement.
• Responsible for leading a team involved in direct Fixed Battery\2W sales.
• Driving BTL and local sales activities through team.
• Travelling across locations to focus on opportunities for Sales and Growth.
• Hiring, Leading, Managing and motivating Sales team to drive growth numbers.

• Provide thought leadership on how best to meet business requirements using the CDM platform 
• Help determine the architectural direction of the CDM platform and related infrastructure 
• Collaborate with business analysts and product owners to interpret and synthesize requirements  
• Work with other team members to determine the best technical solution to meet requirements. 
• Keep current on industry best practices and help to incorporate relevant updates into solutions. 
• Analyze and Identify existing architecture and come up with suggestions and implement changes to bring solutions to a more stable state.
• Act as a single point of contact to the team (including dev/QA/support) in guiding to adopt best practices across technology development.

Basic Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or related field 
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, and critical thinking skills 
• 10+ years working in an IT environment (Preferably on Digital or DWH/ETL applications)
• 5+ years Java/.net (or similar) application design and development experience 
• 4+ years Tibco EBX5 architect/design/development experience
• 5+ years database design/development experience in MS SQL Server or similar DBs with query tuning and optimization
• Proficiency in SQL, XML, JSON 
• Min 5 years working experience an agile development team 
• Min 3 to 5 years of exp with Azure Cloud including services like VMs, Security, Storage, App Services, Service Bus, Active Directory, Azure SQL

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience in ETL, DW/BI, modeling, and manipulating data using Microsoft Access, SQL, Tableau, or similar tools 
• Knowledge of MDM (Master data management) foundational concepts 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills that allow effective communication with all levels of the organization 
• Experience working in a heterogeneous technology environment 
• Ability to participate in high-level architecture design as well as hands-on development 
• Experience developing applications in the Salesforce platform 
• Exposure to web applications and web portals is added advantage

• Use data to develop machine learning models that optimize decision making in Credit Risk, Fraud, Marketing, and Operations
• Implement data pipelines, new features, and algorithms that are critical to our production models
• Create scalable strategies to deploy and execute your models
• Write well designed, testable, efficient code
• Identify valuable data sources and automate collection processes.
• Undertake to preprocess of structured and unstructured data.
• Analyze large amounts of information to discover trends and patterns.

Requirements:

• 1+ years of experience in applied data science or engineering with a focus on machine learning
• Python expertise with good knowledge of machine learning libraries, tools, techniques, and frameworks (e.g. pandas, sklearn, xgboost, lightgbm, logistic regression, random forest classifier, gradient boosting regressor etc)
• strong quantitative and programming skills with a product-driven sensibility

• General Accounting
• Account Payable/Account Receivable
• Debit/credit, reconciliation
• Bank Receivable and Bank Payable.
• TDS, Tax rules
• Balance sheet
• Bank and other reconciliation's