Manual tester

 Key Responsibilities:

• Perform manual testing for web and mobile applications to ensure high-quality releases.
• Conduct API testing using tools like Postman or similar.
• Perform database testing and write SQL queries to validate data in backend.
• Utilize Charles Proxy or similar tools(like DevTools) for network traffic analysis and debugging.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, developers and other stakeholders to understand requirements and clarify expectations.
• Document test cases, test plans, and report defects efficiently.
• Ensure good software quality standards and best practices.
• Lead and mentor junior testers if required.

Required Skills:

• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
• Strong experience in API testing and database validation.
• Proficiency in SQL queries for data validation and debugging.
• Hands-on experience with web and mobile app testing.
• Ability to work with network proxy tools such as Charles Proxy.
• Ability to interact with cross-functional teams and drive discussions on requirements and issue resolutions.
• Experience in Azure DevOps for defect tracking and test management tools.

We’re looking for an experienced software Tester (Manual and Automation) to work with Quoality- A Modern Operating Infrastructure for Hospitality Businesses to help them improve the guest experience and generate additional revenue.

Founded in 2021, Quoality is a Hospitality Tech company backed by a US-based Newchip Accelerator. Our mission is to equip businesses with the tools they need to grow. 

By providing tools, insights, and education with minimal effort on the business's part, the barrier to making actionable business decisions is lowered dramatically. Everything we do is driven by this mission. Everything we do needs to positively answer the question, "Does this help businesses grow?"

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Oh, this is our favorite part. We’ve seen companies that write 'templatized' BS for this section; stuff that’s never followed in reality.

Not us. Here are some of our core values to give you a sense of who we are as a team:

• First and foremost, we’re super transparent. We all know what everyone’s working on, how’s the company doing, and the whole shebang.
• We’re all super chill. 
• Work time ain’t playtime. We take our work very seriously. We’re a small bunch on a mission to change the guest experience in the hospitality industry, once and for all.
• Deadlines are a thing for us. We are super punctual.
• We know what we are working on and aren’t clueless.
• We’re more friends than colleagues.
• Monthly 1:1s with the founders where you can directly share & receive feedback.

Not convinced yet? Okay, here’s the fun stuff:

• Flexible leave policy. Yeah, it’s truly flexible. We trust you.
• We have a flexible remote work policy in India.  Work from the beautiful beaches of Goa or the stunning mountains of Manali, we’re all good.
• Annual workstations at exotic destinations. Subject to change and hitting milestones.
• Allowances to choose your coworking space (if you want), courses & any tool that you think is beneficial to succeed in this role.

📄 The role & what we are looking for:

🧑‍💻 Responsibilities:

• Reviewing software requirements and preparing test scenarios.
• Executing tests on software usability.
• Analyzing test results on database impacts, errors or bugs, and usability.
• Preparing reports on all aspects related to the software testing carried out and reporting to the design team.
• Interacting with clients to understand product requirements.
• Participating in design reviews and providing input on requirements, product design, and potential problems.
• Take full ownership of the module starting from architectural and design decisions to shipping.
• Like the work you do, enjoy collaborating with your coworkers, communicate as much as you can, and have fun. 

What are you going to do?

• Understand business use cases/user stores and develop test cases/scripts
• Perform manual QA testing including functional testing, regression testing, system testing, white box testing, and black box testing
• Participate in the review and analysis of business requirements, functional specifications and design documents
• Collaborate with project team members on development and customer needs
• Solid knowledge of QA testing methodologies, concepts, processes, and documentation
• Ability to automate at UI/API/Database level and apply the same in their testing
• Required knowledge of DB testing and  API testing with tools like Postman etc, along with performance testing.
• Solid experience working with web-based user interfaces, and mobile applications.
• Dedication to product excellence and software testing best practices
• Flexibility and adaptability to a rapidly changing environment
• Creatively think outside the box to identify potential problems, and increase coverage for testing framework

You Need To Have

• 3+ years of relevant software testing experience
• Good in Test Plan, Estimation techniques and testing methodologies.
• Good in Requirement understanding and preparing requirement traceability matrix
• API testing with Postman and other similar tools
• Good in Selenium Scripts and framework designing 
• Knowledge of scripting with any programming language is a plus.
• User interfaces testing, mobile applications testing of Android and iOS
• Load testing and performance testing with different tools like JMETER 
• Knowledge of API documentation tools like Swagger etc.
• Should have experience using ReAssured with Debugging skills
• Basic Security testing tools knowledge is an add-on.

❕Bonus:

• Entrepreneurial spirit, Product Thinker, and ‘Can-Do' attitude.
• Passionate about leveraging technology for supporting product delivery in the Hospitality space.
• Operating style suited to working in a startup environment, where teamwork and resourcefulness are highly valued.
• Excellent leadership skills, including the ability to manage multiple assignments at a time.

• We are looking for a versatile, highly professional, disruptive, and focused individual who pays attention to detail and has an eye for quality delivery. The individual must have team collaboration skills and be an active listener and communicator; someone who'd come not just with problems but suggestive solutions.

•  Bachelors / Masters in Computer Science
•  Excellent communication and presentation skills
•  The candidate should also have knowledge of the industry and ability to work under pressure
•  An indefatigable person with high self-esteem and perspicacious nature is that kind of person
•  who will thrive in this role

• Must have worked in an environment where they know when to perform what kind of testing; say smoke, regression, integration, sanity
• Must have test plan, strategy, cases development experience.
• Knowledge on Android/iOS app testing (usage of Debugging tools relevant is added bonus)
• Must know to prioritize work items based on the business need
• Knows how to handle tough timelines situations and not compromise quality.
• Must have experience in product management methodology such as agilenon-process oriented environment
• Should have experience in any of the ALM tools such as TFS JIRA or even be open to build application reporting structure in excel.
• Analyzing the requirements from clients
• Analyzing and executing Test Cases
• Run Re-Tests and Regression Tests.
• Develop & Run Release Tests

• Play an active role in QA activities during all phases of our product development from requirements elaboration, design/development, test and deployment
• Responsible for manual and automated testing activities for a multi-tier web-based platform. This includes writing test cases based on business requirements, test data creation, creating and maintaining automated scripts to test front-end, APIs and database changes
• Creating and maintaining all QA related documentation throughout the process
• Execution of the test phase consistent with the overall project schedules
• Direct interaction/facilitation of bug resolution with engineering teams
• Work effectively within a dynamic team environment following standards and best practices and ensure the highest level of quality
• Ability to understand the technical architecture, its implementation, design patterns, data representations and infrastructure powering these systems.
• Work closely with software devs and solution architects to understand the tech stack, design and accordingly build the test frameworks, setup infra and build execution models to drive the end-to-end quality efforts of backend systems/services and client apps
• Debug test failures, read through logs, network calls and make preliminary root cause analysis of defect/bug
• Develop test plans, test cases, test design documents with good coverage and optimised testing approach
• Should be able to identify the test cases qualifying for test automation
• Use of tracking tools to log, manage, resolve and report on bugs

Candidate requirements

Must have

• At least 2-4 years of experience in manual and automated quality assurance
• Experience on automation tools like TestNG, Selenium (Grid, parallel, SauceLabs), Mocha_Chai frontend or backend test automation
• Good understanding of REST APIs and a solid experience in testing them
• Tools like Jira, Asana or similar bug tracking tool, Confluence - Wiki, Jenkins - CI tool
• Knowledge of different browsers and cross-platform operating systems
• Keen eye for design and functional UX
• Strong in writing SQL queries
• Proficiency in git
• Ability to develop or maintain applications for test automation
• Excellent written and oral communication and organisational skills with the ability to work within a growing company with increasing needs
• Proven track record of ability to handle time-critical projects

Good to have

• Experience in working in a distributed micro-service environment
• Proficiency in Python, JavaScript or any other programming language
• Hands-on experience in testing frameworks like Pytest or testing platforms like BrowserStack
• Built APIs at some point and practical knowledge on working with them
• Good understanding of CI/CD
• Ability to independently manage test environment deployments and handle issues around it
• Performed load testing of API endpoints
• Should have built an API test automation framework from scratch and maintained it
• Knowledge of cloud platforms like AWS, Azure
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / IT / Computer Applications