
We are seeking a talented QA automation engineer to design testing procedures for our software applications. In this role, will be responsible for analyzing the functionality of applications and designing automated tests to validate their performance. You will also be required to identify bugs, install databases, and collaborate with the software design team.
To ensure success as a QA automation engineer, you should have advanced programming skills, a keen eye for detail, and excellent project management skills. A skilled QA automation engineer can design and write efficient test procedures for every software application.
QA Automation Engineer Responsibilities:
- Meeting with the software design team to discuss verification protocols.
- Identifying software application weaknesses and target areas.
- Sketching out ideas for automated software test procedures.
- Reviewing software bug reports and highlighting problem areas.
- Writing automation scripts and implementing software applications.
- Designing and installing software databases.
- Troubleshooting automation software and finalizing system procedures.
- Identifying quality issues and creating test reports.
- Collaborating with the design team to solve application faults.
QA Automation Engineer Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or a similar field.
- Previous experience working as a QA automation engineer.
- Advanced programming skills including automation systems and databases.
- Must have worked on Selenium,Cucumber,Maven
- Familiarity with programming script languages including Java and VBScript.
- Excellent analytical skills.
- Detailed knowledge of application functions, bug fixing, and testing protocols.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Good project management skills.

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We are currently looking for a detail-oriented Test Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate should have expertise in manual testing, along with a basic understanding of Selenium automation testing and Python.
🌏 Job Location: On-Site
What You Will Be Doing
- Perform manual testing on software applications to ensure quality and performance standards are met.
- Create, maintain, and improve test frameworks to ensure comprehensive test coverage.
- Work together with Developers, Product Managers, and other stakeholders to identify and resolve software issues.
- Assist in Test Automation efforts using Selenium and Python scripts.
- Develop end-to-end testing strategies and prepare test plans through the use of quality processes and methodologies.
- Writing and executing test plans for Functional, Regression, Integration, end-to-end performance and user acceptance testing.
- Create comprehensive documentation and communicate extensively with cross-functional teams to deliver a high-quality product.
- Recommend improvements in software to enhance user experience.
- Works together with the team to enhance and improve quality of the Web and Mobile apps.
What You’ll Need
- Min. 3 months of experience as a Test Engineer.
- Good debugging skills and troubleshooting.
- Experience in Manual Testing, Selenium (Basic), Python (Basic).
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Experience in Functional, Regression, Integration, Performance Testing.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and teamwork abilities.
- Understanding the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Testing concepts and methodologies.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and performance-based Incentives.
- Working closely with the leadership & an opportunity for an accelerated career growth.
- Opportunities for professional development and career growth.
- Collaborative and dynamic work environment.
- Access to company-sponsored training and resources.
Greetings from VEST Software
About VTEST
Founded in 2015 in Pune, VTEST (www.vtestcorp.com) is a pure-play Software Testing services firm based out of Pune, India registered in Atlanta, US and Melbourne, Australia and recognized with Great Place to Work & NASSCOM certified. VTEST works with clients across the globe and employs Manual and Automation Testers to implement best testing practices for all types of testing. Our testers work Remote or from VTEST and client offices across India and international locations.
We are seeking a skilled Manual QA Tester with Salesforce testing experience to join our QA team. The ideal candidate will have a strong foundation in manual testing methodologies along with hands-on experience testing Salesforce-based applications along with BDD/Gherkin syntax and excellent communication skills are essential for this role.
Job Skills: Manual_Salesforce Testing with BDD/Gherkin and AI usage.
Work Location: Work from Office - Viman Nagar, Pune
Work Mode: Hybrid (3 days in a week)
Qualifications: Any Graduate (Yes, at VTEST we accept ANY Graduate irrespective of Specialization, College, University. If you can TEST then apply to VTEST)
Years of Experience: 4 to 6 Years
Joining Availability - Immediate to 30 days
Required Skills:
- 4 - 6 years of manual testing experience with at least 2+ years in Salesforce application testing.
- Strong knowledge of Salesforce CRM (Sales Cloud/Service Cloud).
- Salesforce certification (e.g., Salesforce Administrator or Platform App Builder) is a strong plus.
- Proficiency in writing test cases, test plans, and understanding end-to-end business workflows.
- Experience with BDD frameworks (Cucumber/Gherkin) is mandatory.
- Worked on AI testing.
- Familiarity with Agile/Scrum environments.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills – must be able to effectively articulate issues and collaborate with teams.
What You Will Do:
- Understand and analyze business requirements, functional specifications, and technical documentation.
- Design, develop, and execute comprehensive manual test cases for Salesforce and integrated applications.
- Conduct various types of testing – functional, regression, UI, integration, and system testing.
- Validate Salesforce configurations, customizations (Apex, Visualforce, Lightning components), workflows, and reports.
- Collaborate with business analysts, developers, and stakeholders to ensure quality deliverables.
- Participate in defect triage meetings and drive issues to resolution.
- Use tools such as JIRA, Zephyr, or similar for test management and defect tracking.
- Create and maintain test documentation, test data, and testing metrics.
VTEST is an Equal Opportunity Employer. As a policy, VTEST provides equal employment opportunities, without any discrimination on the grounds of age, color, disability, marital status, nationality, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation. VTEST strives to maintain a work environment that is free from any harassment based on above considerations.
Below are a few links for you to refer to and know more about VTEST, our employee-friendly policies, our work ethics, and standards to start with -
Website www.vtestcorp.com
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/vtest/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/vtestcorp
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/vtest_software/
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- BE Computer Science, MCA or equivalent.
- Experience testing IOT devices managed by cloud.
- Manual testing experience and a desire to learn and work with the latest
technologies. Web, Cloud and Mobile App testing.
- Develop test plans, cases, and scripts; schedule and execute test cycles;
contribute to testability & quality of software.
- Reports all defects accurately; facilitate problem tracking and successful
resolution; assess and communicate various risks involved and provide
necessary assistance to engineers and stakeholders.
- Basic knowledge of automation know-how [ API automation, Python]
- Test to fail mindset, Solid test strategy experience, well versed with QA processes.
- Hands on experience on Performance test angle.
Experience:
- Min 1 year experience
- Not more than 10 year experience.
Location
- Remotely, anywhere in India
Timings:
- 40 hours a week (9 PM IST to 2 AM IST(10 hours in your suitable time) , Monday to
Saturday).
Position:
- Full time/Direct
Other Benefits
- We have great benefits such as PF, medical insurance, 12 annual company holidays, 12
PTO leaves per year, annual increments, Diwali bonus, spot bonuses and other
incentives etc.
- We dont believe in locking in people with large notice periods. You will stay here
because you love the company. We have only a 15 days notice period.
- 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.
Candidate Profile
- 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
Required Skills
- 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
- Testing and assuring high quality performance of applications
- Writing clear and maintainable high-quality automation code
- Reporting and validating bugs for all components
- Creating test plans and test cases
- Identifying opportunities for improvement and making constructive suggestions for change
- Staying up-to-date with developing technologies and showcasing them in your work
Qualification
- Minimum 2 years experience in software testing
- Minimum 1 years of automation testing experience using Selenium and/or JavaScript based frameworks or equivalent
- Testing and assuring high quality performance of customer applications
- Writing clear and maintainable high-quality automation code
- Reporting and validating bugs for all components
- Creating test plans and test cases
- Identifying opportunities for improvement and making construc\tive suggestions for change
- Staying up-to-date with developing technologies and showcasing them in your work
- Leading a team of Quality Engineers is a plus
- 3-7 years of hands on experience in mobile app testing - iOS / Android
- Mobile automation expertise (iOS, Android) using Appium.
- Experience having automated in an Agile environment.
- Experience with issue tracking tool (JIRA) and reporting tools.
- Experience with source code management and build tools - Git, SVN, Maven, Gradle
- Experience in using Charles Tool / Fiddler
- Programming language: Java
- Automation tool: Selenium, Appium
- Others: Jira, GIT, Maven, Gradle, Bamboo, TestNG
- Experience working and automating in REST APIs based WS environment.
- Strong knowledge on current automation trends.
- Knowledge of Performance testing on mobile applications.
- Experience with continuous integration using bamboo/Jenkins
- 2+ yrs experience with manual testing on mobile (automation testing is an advantage)
- Manual testing experience in testing for Android & iOS is MUST
- JIRA or other bug tracking tool experience
- The QA Analyst will be expected to complete manual testing on both iOS and Android devices, be able to enter findings into Jira, and follow up on defects discovered
- PRD Reviews, Test Case coverage and Execution, able to handle End to End Application testing and release process.
- API testing experience and Basic SQL knowledge
- ADB commands, Android Studio, Xcode, Understanding Logs, SDK’s.
- Work as part of cross functional, passionate agile project teams to ensure quality is maintained. Good To Have Skills :
- Experience in setting up automation testing infrastructure & writing automation testing scripts for Android, iOS & APIs
- Work on Automation framework
- Work on continuous integration tools
- Hands on experience with Appium
Describe the ideal candidate here.
All of the GaragePlug product modules have critical workflows, and the new developers need to be more confident and fearless about making changes in the system. This will help to deliver products faster to the customers while building more robust products.
We have developed an in-house framework for manually testing the features/product before the launch. This has helped us to catch more than 1000 bugs before releasing the feature in production.
Think of this as the backbone that will help engineers from the product team to automate critical workflows and coordinate bug bashes for all the product teams. Your understanding of functional testing, writing maintainable tests, written and verbal communication skills will be put to the test.
# WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING
### **Within 1st month**
- Learn all aspects of products and critical workflows for each of the products as part of your training.
- Setup the dev environment and organise your first bug bash.
- Have a one-one chat with every member of the GaragePlug team so you get to know everyone well.
- 1-hour session every week with one of the product & quality experts from other Upekkha startups
- Weekly 2 times join sales and customer success team for pre-sales customer demos to understand the product usage
- Weekly 1 session with customer success team to know more about the domain and product usage
- Start writing the functional test case masters for core modules
### **Within 3 months**
- You’ll start developing your first project all by yourself.(With some guidance)
- Write your first set of automation code and work with other engineers to setup functional testing workflows.
- Have an exhaustive test-case/scenarios for all product components
- Be responsible for the product release and release process automation
### **Within 6 months**
- You’ll automate five to six critical workflows for the existing product.
- Establish process for writing functional test that will impact the entire product.
- Be comfortable navigating most of our stack and infrastructure.
- Be responsible for the planning, scoping, design, and implementation of new bug-bashes.
### **Within 12 months**
- You’ll automate at least 60-70%of the workflows in product and completely own QA as a function.
- Participate in interviewing and hiring, as a way to influence team growth and how our values inform our culture.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, sales and customer success leadership to define priorities and set delivery goals.
# **WHAT AN IDEAL CANDIDATE WOULD LOOK LIKE**
- We use Spring-boot microservices for backend and Angular 2+/Ionic 3+ for frontend. We prefer someone with experience in selenium, but it is not necessary. You must have experience of working with testing frameworks like selenium, tools, or SaaS products for functional testing like [cypress.io](https://cypress.io/).
- Dedicated to testing. While testing can sometimes get repetitive and monotonous, it is critical to our engineering efforts.
- 2-4 years of experience with automated functional testing.
- Pays great attention to detail and helps identify edge cases.
- A knack for breaking things. You should be driven to test with the motive of breaking the application.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
**Personality traits we really admire**
- Great attitude to ask questions, learn and suggest process improvements.
- Excellent problem solving and analytical skills.
- Previous work experience at a product-based company or startup would be a bonus.
- You are a team player
**Our tech stack is Java Spring-boot, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Angular 2+, Ionic 3+, Typescript. Our platform is hosted on AWS Cloud.**
# **INTERVIEW PROCESS AND PREP NOTES**
- **Problem Solving & Analytical Skills:** We are a Java & Angular shop, and if you say that you will improve the quality of the product, we expect you to know basics of typescript and/or Java (but not mandatory)
- **Blackbox Testing:** Be prepared to answer some simulation-based questions during our interviews. From writing the requirements for a test case to planning & executing test plans on the GaragePlug platform, watch out for some hard-hitting questions.
- **Culture Round:** Understand if your values and beliefs fit in with your company’s culture. Be yourself. This is for both sides to evaluate if we're a cultural fit for each other.
- **Founder Round:** Discussion with both the founders of the company. This round helps us evaluate how we both can mutually benefit each other.
# **WHY JOIN US**
- **Freedom & Responsibility:** If you are a person who wants to take up challenging work & push your boundaries with no one monitoring you, then this is the right place for you. There are no hierarchies. No managers to please.
- **Great Salary & Equity:** For our top performers and leaders, we grant stock options. As GaragePlug continues to grow, you’ll have a real opportunity to create wealth for yourself and your family. We pay great salaries too!
- **Transparency:** If you ever wanted to know what it’s like to be on an entrepreneurial journey, then working with GaragePlug gives you that opportunity to experience it all first hand.
If all of this sounds exciting to you, join us for an exciting and equally fulfilling ride at GaragePlug!










