Manual Tester

Alternative Path is looking for a Senior QA, to assist one of its clients, which is a SAAS platform helping alternative investment firms to streamline their document collection and data extraction process using Machine Learning. 

This role is responsible for leading quality review of various applications and includes creating test plans and strategy, test cases in partnership with developers, business analysts and project managers which are used to shape and verify code and check conformance to system requirements. The role relies upon test automation and manual testing tools.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyse and interpret business requirements and end-user feedback to provide meaningful and timely inputs and apply analysis to the testing process.
• Create comprehensive Testing Strategies/ Plans, describing the testing scope, strategy, techniques, approach, and test data that you will use to test new features.
• Report defects for issues found under testing and manage the defect through its life cycle.
• Create Test cases, relevant test execution reports and bug reports and use them to convey current state of feature under test
• Collaboratively work with the design and development team members to resolve identified issues/bugs in timely manner.
• Apply the functionality knowledge and understanding to determine the impacted testing areas and come up with the relevant regression testing scope, plan, and timelines.
• Do regression, exploratory testing along with planned and documented testing for new features.
• Do automation planning towards automation testing of features and create automation scripts at UI and API levels using appropriate tools.
• Take a stand and share views on the quality of feature under test, back it up with necessary data and metrics, use it to provide (or not provide) release sign off.
• Do defect analysis of bugs found in Production environment and come up with systemized solutions to avoid these occurrences in the future.
• Collaboratively work across all areas of IT development, actively liaising with developers and business stakeholders to improve overall quality and performance.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of the QA test strategy and process.
• Be aware of and understand the impact to QA of any new technologies being introduced.

Desired Skills and Experience

Technical

• Candidate must be a Graduate/Postgraduate with proven experience in QA Engineering field.
• Candidate has 3 to 5 years of experience in Quality Engineering field.
• Candidate has strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes.
• Hands on experience of using tooling for Test Case Management, Defect M.
• Strong Analytical, logical reasoning, problem-solving skills with Good Aptitude and communication.
• Flexible to work in designated shift hours to facilitate global communication.
• Be willing to help your teammates, share your knowledge with them, and learn from them.
• Be open to receiving constructive feedback and turning it into process improvements.

Personal

• Able to question the status quo
• Out-of-the-box thinking
• Smart & agile
• Fast learner
• Able to work autonomously
• Eager to learn new technologies

1. Building up and leading the Testing Team to the success of project
2. Defining the scope of testing within the context of each release / delivery
3. Deploying and managing resources for testing
4. Applying the appropriate test measurements and metrics in the product and the Testing Team
5. Planning, deploying and managing the testing effort for any given engagement.

What you need to have:

ROLE REQUIREMENTS:

• Experience of 5+ years working as a Quality Assurance Analyst
• Experience with test management tools such as Quality Centre, JIRA, ADO.
• Knowledge of automation tools like Selenium
• Knowledge of Non-Functional testing - Accessibility, Performance
• Educated to degree level, ideally in Computer Science
• ISEB certification in Testing (intermediate level) is advantageous
• Experience in participating in process change is advantageous
• Experience testing commercial websites in a creative and/or agency environment is advantageous
• Experience testing native iOS and Android applications is advantageous

QUALIFICATIONS & CHARACTERISTICS

• 5+ years’ industry experience.
• Analytic and positive mindset with a personable and professional approach.
• Sharp attention to detail and a passion for new technology.
• Professional written and verbal communication.

About Typito 

Responsibilities:

• Become the gate-keeper for Product Quality that we offer our customers and uphold the high standard of customer happiness we've achieved so far - https://www.g2.com/products/typito/reviews
• Work closely with engineers and product managers in rolling out new features and enhancements across Typito.
• Own and manage an exhaustive list of test-cases as part of the product development and document iterations of testing we do
• Develop an understanding of the Typito product and document use-case scenarios
• Own efforts on Functional, Regression, UI testing for Web and Mobile
• Participate in product feature rollouts and suggest useful feature additions on the app and recommend improvements in Typito to enhance user experience
• Be an advocate of app performance and lead initiatives on this front.

Requirements:

• Experience - At least 2 years experience being part of a QA team with defined responsibilities that gave you exposure to efficient testing and deployment processes.
• Impeccable communication skills - You'll be collaborating with multiple teams, having the ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical people is necessary.
• Critical thinking skills - You know how to think from a customer's perspective throughout the entire development cycle #empathy. You should be able to create lots of "What If" scenarios and make sure the app is battle-tested to handle those scenarios.
• Quick learner - Typito app is changing at a rapid pace, there is no single way to handle issues that come up. You must adapt quickly to new tools and techniques that keep improving your own workflow.
• Collaboration skills - As mentioned above, you'll be collaborating with developers and product managers, alike. It's important that you understand how to convey important issues to other people, and to listen well. We believe in the power of red-flagging and we expect the QA function to help us get upto speed on challenges faced by our customers.
• Automation testing skills is a strong plus as we would be experimenting with automation suites that can make our QA function more robust and efficient.

About Us:

Aakash EduTech Pvt. Ltd. (AEPL) is the digital learning arm of Aakash Education Services Ltd. (AESL). AEPL is a rock solid team of 800+ passionate individuals within 2 strong online learning brand names, under its umbrella:

Aakash Digital(digital.aakash.ac.in) geography access to education in the test-prep segment by removing barriers of geography, income, safety or time. Our unique digital offerings i.e. Aakash Live - live online classes, Aakash iTutor - recorded video lectures and Aakash Practest - integrated test series facilitate right guidance to students preparing for competitive exams from the safety and comfort of their homes. We have a reach in almost 7+ countries and 750+ cities world-wide.

Meritnation  (http://www.meritnation.com/">www.meritnation.com) is India’s leading online learning platform for school students with over 2.0 crore enrolled students across CBSE, ICSE and leading state boards. It's an online tuition company with course offerings for class 1 to 12. The company has subscribers PAN India as well as in the Mid-East and has offices across 15 cities in India. Meritnation was a pioneer in Live Classes with more than 80,000+ hours of live class delivered on the platform till date.

What We Are Looking For:

- The candidate should have experience in manual testing, GUI testing, functional testing and load testing.

- knowledge of automated testing tools preferable open source like JMeter, Selenium etc.

- The candidate should have experience in writing and executing test cases.

- Good understanding of SDLC and STLC concepts; Ability to effectively prioritize assignments as well as unplanned issues.

- Knowledge of web-based applications is a must.

- Defect reporting, coordination with development team, defect logging, defect tracking tools like Bugzilla or Bugnet, bug reporting etc

- Completing assigned work with proper focus on design aspects, modular, coding standards, process adherence, optimized and readable code and minimal rework required

- Ability to work productively in a dynamic, priority shifting, deadline-driven environment with no/minimum supervision

- Self-initiative in reading and learning about new technologies, other modules of the application, newer and better ways of doing things

- Good teamwork, positive and constructive collaboration and communication with everybody

Required Skills

Both Manual and Automation testing(Basic Knowledge ) cover functional and performance testing.

Qualifications: Bachelor degree or Equivalent

A Software Testing Engineer is required to fully test the product or system to ensure it functions properly and meets the business needs. The job responsibilities include:

Role and Responsibilities

• Responsible for creating and executing tests to verify that software runs properly and without defects on each platform requested and to handle test procedures efficiently to result in extreme product stability, product usability and performance.
• Responsible for creating test plans and test cases.
• Understanding how a feature is implemented to develop test cases for the functionality, performance, stress, and fault conditions.
• Responsible for reviewing and analyzing project documentation to ensure product testability.
• Responsible for providing detailed testing status.

Skills  Required: 

• Should have experience in creating Test Plans, Test scripts, Test cases.
•  Knowledge in Selenium web drivers is mandatory. They should be able to write the scripts and run them in Selenium.
• Should have good experience in SQL databases.
• Good knowledge on System and Integration Test Cases.
• Good knowledge on System and Integration Testing.
• Able to write Test Scenarios.
• Able to Test the application independently.
• Hands on experience in UI testing 

Qualifications:

• B.Tech (Computer Science)