Product Manager

Business Analyst - IT Solutions

Position: Business Analyst Department, Information Technology

Employment Type: Full-time

Experience Level: 1-3 years

Role Overview:

We are seeking a dynamic Business Analyst to bridge the gap between business requirements and technical solutions. This client-facing role involves analyzing business processes, gathering requirements, and ensuring successful project delivery without hands-on programming.

Key Responsibilities:

- Gather and document business requirements from clients and stakeholders

- Analyze current business processes and identify improvement opportunities

- Create detailed functional specifications and user stories

- Facilitate meetings between technical teams and business stakeholders

- Conduct user acceptance testing and training sessions

- Prepare project documentation, reports, and presentations

- Support pre-sales activities and client demonstrations

Required Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in Business, IT, or related field

- 1-3 years of experience in business analysis or similar role

- Basic understanding of software development lifecycle

- Good communication and presentation skills

- Client-facing experience preferred

- Basic knowledge of project management methodologies

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience in software/technology industry

- Understanding of database concepts and system integration

- Experience with wireframing and prototyping tools

Location: Chennai

Ideal Candidates for this Role should have:

• Minimum 5 years experience in testing.
• The candidate should have strong experience in Rest Assured, API Testing and Java.
• Proficiency in API testing tools like Postman
• Good knowledge in automation testing using Selenium WebDriver with Java.
• The candidate should be able to write a program to retrieve/parse the Json
• Good understanding of REST API types (GET, PUT, POST, DELETE) and its working.
• Good understanding of HTTP, JSON protocol and syntax
• Good knowledge in automation testing using Selenium WebDriver with Java.
  Be able to work as an individual contributor and be an Expert at writing automated scripts and be 100% hands-on
  Should have automated 1000s of Test cases at various complexity levels and workflows
• Design, implementation, and delivery of scalable, maintainable, configurable and robust test automation frameworks.
• Ability to analyze and translate requirements and development stories into test scripts to ensure complete test coverage.
• Should have strong knowledge of continuous integration tools like Hudson and Jenkins.
• Strong understanding of testing and automation best practices.
• Proven experience in functional, regression and cross-browser testing.
• Willingness to learn new technologies, approaches and test tools

Job Description:

QA automation is a key component of Kaplan's ability to quickly launch high-quality, innovative education products to our students. As an integral member of a cross-functional Agile team, you will use industry-standard tools and frameworks to conduct functional and performance testing on web applications, mobile applications, and APIs.

In this role you will:

• Develop automated mobile application test scripts that are robust, performant, and maintainable using Appium, Espresso, XCUITest or other tools.
• Ensure that applications and APIs developed by the team are reliable and meet user’s needs
• Work closely with developers, designers, and devops to meet team commitments
• Manage the timeline and status of the software release process
• Work with the Tech Lead to improve software development and quality assurance processes
• Provide the product owner with information they need to prioritize features (e.g., effort estimates, alternatives, technical risk)
• Work closely with developers to learn implementation details about product feature and perform releases
• Provide production support of software products by investigating and recreating reported defects
• Work closely with stakeholders to implement with different types of Performance Testing like : Load Testing, Stress Testing, Volume Testing, Capacity Testing, Reliability Testing

You must have:

• Minimum 5 or more years of software testing and quality assurance
• BS/MS in a relevant field (Computer Science, Engineering) or equivalent experience
• A Good understanding of the mobile devices, their peripheral devices, networks etc.
• A Good understanding of the Android and iOS designs and its components.
• Hands on experience with emulators, simulators.
• Hands on experience by testing mobile app performances with automation application testing tools.
• Well versed with different types of Performance Testing like : Load Testing, Stress Testing, Volume Testing, Capacity Testing, Reliability Testing. etc
• Experience in developing end to end system level automation and tools design
• & development
• Experience with mobile automated testing frameworks, such as Appium, Espresso, or XCUITest.
• Strong experience working with Selenium WebDriver either with TestNG, Junit or Nunit.
• Hands on Experience in building automation framework for Android and IOS.
• Good experience & knowledge of any one Language Java or Python/C#.
• Experience with API testing and performance testing with tools such as JMeter, Rest Assured or Soasta
• Familiarity with standard web and mobile architectures, both hardware and software
• Drive adoptions of best practices in code, testing and maintainability.
• Proficient with Devops and concept for example : Jenkins, Git and Docker
• Familiarity with Amazon Web Services is a plus.
• Experience with the entire software lifecycle - requirements capture, analysis, design, implementation, quality assurance, deployment, and maintenance
• Perform Mobile test task estimation, test execution, Regression testing, Functional System testing
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Good analytical and problem solving skills
• Be motivated to meet commitments and deliver the highest value possible

• 2-3 yrs of strong experience in building mobile web frontend for b2c products using React.
• Understanding of server side rendering, nextjs.
• Ability to build progressive web applications with optimized lighthouse score.