Junior Test Engineer

About us:

TAPPP is leading the charge in bringing premium digital entertainment content & live sports to global consumers via its prepaid platform.

We are available across platforms via the Web, Mobile, and Tablets. Building out this brand presents significant product and engineering challenges. At the center of solving those challenges is the TAPPP Product Engineering team which is responsible for the TAPPP product end to end.

The organization is flat, processes are minimal, individual responsibility is big, and there is an emphasis on keeping non-productive influences out of the everyday technical decision-making process. Upholding these philosophies will be imperative as we execute our aggressive plan of global expansion over the next 2 years.

Who are we looking for:

We are looking for a QA engineer experienced in writing test cases based on user stories, creating reports, testing the application from a design & usability perspective, and supporting both manual and automated testing throughout the lifecycle of the product. As a QA Engineer, you will ensure that quality issues and defects are appropriately identified, documented, tracked, and resolved in our defect tracking system.

Mandatory technical skills:

• Proven working experience (Min 3 years) in software quality assurance
• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes
• Experience in writing clear, concise, and comprehensive test plans and test cases
• Hands-on experience with both white box & black box testing and automated testing tools
• Technology hands-on Selenium, Javascript, and SQL Scripting is a must
• Experience with Restful API testing – Postman jetpack, RestAssured
• Experience with performance/load/stress testing
• Experience in all stages of application testing including UI, backend, functional, regression
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process

Other

Strong independent contributor and an unquenchable desire to learn, attention to detail a can-do attitude

Comfortable working in a start-up environment

The position is based in Pune, India.

At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create, secure, and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation. 
 

Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers, and their customers, better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.

About the position

F5 is looking for a Software Engineer with expertise in designing Web UI automation solutions to test high-scale distributed systems. You will collaborate with architects and application development teams to vet and validate test automation for an edge computing platform that is used to deploy global, scalable and secure applications.

Responsibilities:

• Understand the product architecture and come up with a frontend testing strategy such that quality is driven into the heart of the development process

• Perform integration tests on web services & APIs using SauceLabs, Postman, Swagger and other testing tools

• Design test and automation infra to test functionality, scale, performance, and reliability to ensure predictable delivery of quality releases

• Design and implement different test strategies - black box, grey box, and white box - to ensure the product is finished, secure, and effective

• Research, recommend and implement tools as needed to ensure quality

• Build test frameworks working within CI/CD pipeline processes, and provide automation expertise to development teams

Minimum Qualifications:

• Experience in designing automation software from the ground up, choosing the right infrastructure components, evaluating both open source and closed source software

• Hands-on experience with JavaScript (TypeScript will be a plus)

• Strong working knowledge of test automation frameworks and tools: Selenium, WebDriver, SauceLabs, Protractor, Gitlab CI, Jenkins, Jasmine, Karma

• Practical experience with CI/ CD methodologies & tools

• Good understanding of Testing fundamentals, Bug life cycle, SDLC, STLC, Smoke testing, Sanity testing, Regression testing

• Prior working experience in Web-based projects with a strong understanding of UI, cross-browser compatibility, general web functions, and standards is a must.

• Good written and verbal communication skills and flexibility to work with teams in different time zones

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 6-10 years of experience in software development and/or test automation

Desirable:

• Experience with load balancer products such as F5, Envoy, Nginx, HA proxy

• Experience with Kubernetes container technology, Terraform, AWS

• Good understanding of networking protocols, HTTP/HTTPS, Proxies TCP, UDP, IP, HTTP, SSL, DNS, FTP, origin pools, etc

About the company

F5 provides a distributed cloud platform to deploy, connect, secure and operate applications and data across multi-cloud and edge sites. Line-of-business leaders can drive business transformation and automation by distributing workloads closer to business activity. DevOps teams can manage fleets of applications and infrastructure with less complexity. Network teams can simplify application connectivity and security across clouds.

The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.

Equal Employment Opportunity

It is the policy of F5 to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, sensory, physical, or mental disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination.  F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates. Requesting an accommodation is completely voluntary. F5 will assess the need for accommodations in the application process separately from those that may be needed to perform the job. 

Responsibilities 

• Ability to create tools, microsite, devOps and technical solution for testing.
• Experience in Object Oriented Analysis, Design(OOAD) and development of software using UML Methodology, good knowledge of J2EE design patterns and Core Java design patterns.
• Analyze test logs; create test reports, co-ordinate with stakeholders
• Experience in web application and device test automation using Selenium, Robotium, Appium or any equivalent tool/s.
• Strong experience with Agile development incorporating Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, utilizing technologies such as GIT, Maven, Jenkins, Chef, Sonar, PowerMock.
• Design and build scalable automated test frameworks and test suites working across technologies.
• Debugging of any issue faced.
• GoLang, Docker, Kubernetes experience is good to have
• Perform manual testing, the scope of which will encompass all functionalities of services as a prequel to automation
• Experience working closely with development and business teams to communicate impacts and to understand business requirements.
  
  

Qualification –

• A Bachelor's or Master's degree with 1 – 5 years of experience as Developer or SDET.
• Comfortable communicating cross-functionally and across management levels in formal and informal settings.
• Ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions.
• Shows creativity and initiative to improve product coverage and effectiveness.
• Ability to work in teams.
• Deal well with ambiguous/undefined problems; ability to think abstractly.
• Go getter attitude.

• Develops, implements, and manages processes to ensure that products meet required specifications for quality, function, and reliability prior to delivery.
• Identifies and sets appropriate quality standards and parameters for products.
• Communicates quality standards and parameters to QA team, product development team, and other appropriate staff.
• Coordinates product testing processes.
• Participates in product testing.
• Identifies and analyzes issues, bugs, defects, and other problems, particularly when problems recur in multiple products; recommends and facilitates solutions to these issues.
• Reviews client, customer, and user feedback.
• Maintains compliance with federal, state, local, and organizational laws, regulations, guidelines, and policies.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong supervisory and leadership skills.

Total Experience: 4-7 Years  

  Must Have (2-3yrs): 

Appium, Selenium or Protract, Any programming language, Cucumber framework 

 Good to Have (2-3yrs.): 

Restassured, Jenkins CI/CD Integration, Database Knowledge (SQL, ORACLE etc.), Github etc