Protocol Test Engineer

Role Objective: 

Ensure that our software products are of the highest quality by utilizing manual and automated testing techniques, excellent communication, and logical reasoning skills. 

Roles & Responsibilities: 

Test Strategy and Planning: 

• Design, develop, and implement comprehensive test strategies and plans. 
• Collaborate with product managers and developers to understand product requirements and define appropriate test scenarios. 

Test Development and Execution: 

• Develop detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test cases. 
• Execute manual test cases and analyze results. 
• Set up, maintain, and operate test automation frameworks. 
• Detect and report software defects using a bug tracking system, and work with the development team to troubleshoot, debug, and resolve them. 

Continuous Improvement: 

• Review and analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of existing systems and develop strategies for improving or further leveraging these systems. 
• Research new testing tools, methodologies, and best practices and share findings with the team. 

Collaboration & Communication: 

• Clearly and concisely report defects and other testing outcomes to developers and other stakeholders. 
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration and quality throughout the software development lifecycle. 
• Facilitate and participate in QA reviews and updates to ensure consistency and compliance with standards. 

Documentation & Reporting: 

• Maintain detailed documentation of test cases, test scripts, and test outcomes. 
• Produce regular reports on test status, anomalies, risks, and validation results. 

Mentoring & Coaching: 

• Assist junior QA team members and offer guidance as needed. 
• Share knowledge on advanced testing techniques, tools, and best practices. 

Staying Updated: 

• Stay updated with the latest industry trends, tools, and technologies in QA testing. 
• Attend training and workshops to continually improve your QA skills. 

Required Skills & Qualifications: 

• 1-3 years of experience in a similar role in a software services environment. 
• Proficient in manual testing techniques, including black box, white box, and grey box testing. 
• Experience in setting up and using automation testing tools such as Selenium, JUnit, TestNG, etc. 
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written. 
• Strong logical reasoning and problem-solving skills. 
• Familiarity with bug tracking tools like Azure DevOps, JIRA, etc. 
• Knowledge of software development lifecycle (SDLC) and agile methodologies. 
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Certifications in Quality Assurance, such as ISTQB or CSTE. 
• Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) tools like Jenkins or Travis CI. 
• Familiarity with code versioning tools like Git. 

Role and Responsibilities:

We are seeking a skilled and experienced individual to join our team as a Post Silicon Validation Engineer. In this role, you will be responsible for validating and analyzing the performance of SOC level environments. Your primary duties will include functional and compliance testing, characterization across power, performance, and thermal parameters, as well as data collection and analysis for PVT analysis, SNR, harmonic distortions, dynamic range, and data rates. Additionally, you will be involved in debugging silicon failures to optimize the overall system performance.

Candidate Qualifications:

To be considered for this position, you must have the following qualifications:

• Strong exposure to validation methodologies and analysis techniques
• Proven experience in SOC level environment bring up
• Expertise in functional and compliance testing
• Experience with data collection and analysis for PVT analysis, SNR, harmonic distortions, dynamic range, and data rates
• Ability to debug silicon failures and optimize system performance

Required Skills:

In order to succeed in this role, you should have the following skills:

• Proficiency in C and Python programming languages
• Familiarity with NI LabVIEW, TestStand, and Actor-framework
• Experience in developing test plans and integrating serial communication protocols
• Ability to automate lab instruments using SCPI commands with GPIB controllers
• Experience in developing test cases and drivers
• Knowledge of tools such as Infiinium Test Compliance Application, Lauterbach T32 Trace32, DMM, FG, DSO, Temp C, Digital Multimeter, Function Generator, Digital Storage Oscilloscope, and National Instruments PXI – DAQ
• Proficiency in SPI, I2C, USB2, RS232, USB3 SS, JTAG, and AMBA protocols
• Ability to analyze and debug protocol level failures

Looking to fill 100+ positions with an MNC client.

Location: Bangalore

Experience: 3-5 years

Need Immediate to 15 days joinees

Initial 6 months will be payroll under the MNC's vendor after which it will be permanent with them (C2H)

Skills:

• Java, Selenium, Strong communication skills
• Need candidates who can join in 15 days or less

Grounds up build REST API automation framework using best in class open source, cloud technologies. Help build automaton first Quality culture in a fast growing product team. The ideal candidate is a self-starter and operates with a high sense of ownership.

What you will do:

• Author extensible, manageable REST API automation suite.
• Works closely with the Development team to release high quality, predictable releases. 
• Develop detailed understanding of overall product architecture, engage at design time to access Automation and Test environment impact. 
• Build Test plans, create prioritized regression suites.

Experience Range: 

You have 2 - 4 years of proven automation and quality assurance experience with any product. 

Technical Expertise:

• Strong hands on programming experience in either Java or Python.
• Deep understanding of REST APIs, have built Test Suites validating product functionalities using API automation frameworks like tavern, postman etc.
• Good to have an understanding of the AWS/Mobile App Automation. environment. ALBs, VPCs, IAM roles.
• Understanding of Docker is nice to have. 
• Good understanding of Object oriented concepts.

You will work on: 

We help many of our clients to deploy their applications in a continuous manner and with confidence – by meaningful test automation. You will have the opportunity to build frameworks for Integration, End to End or even generative tests for cloud-native applications. 

What you will do (Responsibilities):

• Collaborate with Developers and Architects of products to build test automation scripts
• Improve the performance of non-functional automation by parallelizing test executions
• Test planning and management, defect lifecycle, traceability matrix and security breaking testing 

What you bring (Skills):

• Experience in testing micro-service oriented and cloud-native applications with knowledge of tools like HTTP, Curl, Postman, Fiddler, Swagger 
• Experience coding in one of Java/Python/C#
• Working Knowledge of Linux Systems and Shell based scripting 
• Test automation coding best practices – like reusable and modular test code, mocking, stubbing and writing multi-thread safe tests, using platforms like Junit or TestNG 
• UI based testing using Selenium or alike and basic understanding of chrome developer tools

Great if you know (Skills):

• CI exposure to Jenkins, Gitlab CI or any other
• Exposure to BDD style testing frameworks like cucumber
• Understanding of Property based testing (PBT) using tools such as QuickCheck
• Specification driven testing frameworks like Spock, Spek or Kotlin Test
• Big Data migration testing, validation and reporting
• Exposure to load, stress or spike testing using JMeter or Gatling
• Security Testing, Disaster Recovery or Resilience testing for modern distributed applications

 
Advantage Cognologix:

• Higher degree of autonomy, startup culture & small teams
• Opportunities to become expert in emerging technologies
• Remote working options for the right maturity level
• Competitive salary & family benefits
• Performance based career advancement

About Cognologix:

Cognologix helps companies disrupt by reimagining their business models and innovate like a Startup. We are at the forefront of digital disruption and take a business first approach to help meet our client’s strategic goals.

We are automation driven organization helping our clients to deliver their next generation of products with confidence

Benefits Working With Us:

• Health & Wellbeing
• Learn & Grow
• Evangelize 
• Celebrate Achievements
• Financial Wellbeing
• Medical and Accidental cover.
• Flexible Working Hours.
• Sports Club & much more.

HUGHES SYSTIQUE CORPORATION (HSC) is an award-winning software solutions and services company that has been instrumental in steering the digital transformation journey of its clients from the forefront.  Headquartered in Rockville, Maryland USA with development centres in Gurgaon and Bengaluru, India, we work for a wide variety of clients ranging from Fortune 100 Tier 1 equipment vendors & ISVs to small and innovative start-ups with operations in US, Europe, UK, South East Asia, Japan, India etc.

Skillset Required:

• Strong experience in Java coding and Selenium
• Experience in developing automation frameworks from scratch
• Good experience in API testing
• Strong background and experience of working in tooling or QA automation
• Proficient with bug tracking and test management toolsets to support development processes
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills

Key Work Responsibilities:

• Provide thought leadership in providing the test methods to be adopted as per project needs.
• Designing, developing and supporting frameworks for our test infrastructure and providing automation expertise to our development teams
• Research, recommendation and implementing tools as needed with the goal of increasing automation
• Prepare test plan, test estimates for committed work
• Assess the dependencies from different teams, communicate well in advance and work to close the dependencies.