QA Automation tester

• Expertise in test planning and test strategy design for various types of testing - integration testing, functional testing, system testing and regression.

• Ability to quickly learn the functional aspects of the project & be the quality gatekeeper for the code release.

• Experience in testing the developed UI pages against the UX design to ensure the experience is realised. 

• Experience in creating knowledge artifacts and authoring guides for end-users

• Experience in creating test scenarios, test cases, traceability

• Hands-on experience with JIRA, WIKI, or Zephyr applications

• Understanding and working knowledge in Scrum Methodology

• Experience in Web,mobile, cross browser and device testing.

• Experience in Automation testing with Java and Selenium

• experience in frameworks like TestNG and Cucumber

Job Description

QA Analyst | Bengaluru

Quality is everyone’s responsibility...and at Searce we do it right! 

If you feel the same way, come along! 

If your biggest pet peeve is ignoring flaws and biggest strength is having an impeccable eye for detail, then you are a QA Analyst at heart. As a QA Analyst you will play a major role in building excellent products. You will work efficiently and closely with software developers and managers to smoothen and improve the quality of the final  product. If you recognize your own natural skill set in the things mentioned above – that’s a sign you will do well in this field and help grow with Searce.

Being a QA Analyst, you will be responsible for designing and writing programs that run automated tests on new or existing software products – an essential part of the software development cycle. You will be required to use  automation frameworks (standardised guidelines) to build these programs on and write test scripts that do the testing. Different test automation developers specialise in particular automation tools, such as Selenium.

• Natural creativity:

The best recruiters are creative visionaries, people who are capable of stepping back, seeing the big picture, and coming up with new ways of approaching challenges and making positive changes to how the company is managed and marketed.

• Not a CAVEr: 

You are a person that people like to be around. You are not a CAVE (Constantly Against Virtually Everything) personality.

• Say no to HiPPO: 

At Searce, we want people who value everyone’s opinions & perspectives. We don’t want them to get overpowered by HiPPO (Highest Paid Person’s Opinion)

1. Plan, develop and execute tests/QA use cases against all the product releases using a variety of manual and automated test tools to ensure requirements have been met. 
2. Working closely with a team of test engineers to define Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Methodologies.
3. Work with the development team to ensure all requirements have been tested, defects have been identified and documented, impacts have been assessed, and resolutions provided. 
4. Create and maintain test documentation such as test plans and test reports.
5.  Interact with team members and other groups to troubleshoot and resolve quality defects and issues identified during the testing process and post-release of the product. 
6. Communicate product and process information to other members of the QA team, other departments as necessary. 
7.  Create Automation suites for existing test cases to reduce manual effort. 
8. Ability to find errors and communicate them timely.

Is Education overrated? Yes. We believe so. But there is no way to locate you otherwise. So we might look for at least a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Computer Science).

1.  Or else, you should be programming from 12. For us, the latter is better as it shows you have a programming mindset. We will find you faster if you specify the latter in some manner. :) 
2. Relevant years of experience in different types of testing that includes Functional testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, System testing, Installation & upgrade testing, and sanity/smoke testing, preferably in a similar industry. 
3. Familiarity and skill with the tools of the trade in core & Advance Java,web Automation Testing,Automation Framework implementation and understanding such Keyword, hybrid etc 
4. Experience with Agile software development methodologies. 
5. Strong written and verbal communications demonstrated through the creation of test plans, defect documentation, and summary presentations. 
6. Ability to leverage technology to advance the quality of products and efficiency of development and quality related processes. 
7. Should be able to work from scratch, creating a framework.

Are you the one? Quick Fit test:

1. Love for cloud: When was the last time your dinner entailed an act on “How would ‘Jerry Seinfeld’ pitch Cloud platform & products to this prospect” and your friends ended up doing the comical  ‘Sheldon’ version of the same thing
2. Passion for sales: When was the last time you went to a remote gas station while on vacation, and ended up helping the gas station owner saasify his 7 gas stations across other geographies? 

1. Compassion for customers: Your listening skills are impeccable, but so are your speaking skills. And when you speak, you take command of the entire room! 

1. Humor for life: When was the last time you told a concerned CEO, ‘If Elon Musk can attempt to take humanity to Mars, why can’t we take your business to run on the cloud?’

Searce means ‘a fine sieve’ & indicates ‘to refine, to analyze, to improve’. It signifies our way of working: To improve to the finest degree of excellence, ‘solving for better’ every time. Searcians are passionate improvers & solvers who love to question the status quo.

The primary purpose of all of us, at Searce, is driving intelligent, impactful & futuristic business outcomes using new-age technology. This purpose is driven passionately by HAPPIER people who aim to become better, everyday.

Searce is a modern tech consulting firm that empowers clients to futurify their businesses, leveraging Cloud, AI & Analytics.

1. We are a category defining niche’ cloud-native technology consulting company, specializing in modernizing (improve, automate & transform) the full-scope of infra, app, process & work
2. We partner with clients in their ‘beyond x’ journey to drive intelligent, impactful & futuristic business outcomes
3. We are the most preferred tech partner of choice when it comes to ‘solving for better’ for the new-age tech startups & digital enterprises, leading disruption in their industries
4. Our Service Offerings: We offer Advanced Cloud, Data & App Modernization, Cloud Consulting, Management & Improvement (DevOps, SysOps & Cloud Managed Services), Applied AI & Analytics services 
5. As one of the top 5 niche’ full scope global partners for Google Cloud & a preferred partner for AWS, we are the most preferred ‘engineering-led’ tech company of choice when it comes to solving complex business problems

We are passionate improvers, solvers & futurists. Driven by our engineering excellence mindset, we care most about delivering intelligent, impactful & futuristic business outcomes. Searcians are motivated by continuous improvement & solving for better in everything we do.

At the core, a Searcian is self-driven to become better, everyday. In passionate pursuit of the finest degree of excellence we drive exceptional outcomes in everything we do.

We believe that trust is the most important value. We also believe that we need to ‘earn the trust’, everytime one engages with us. And earning trust for us is far more important than anything else. We aim to be the *most trusted* tech consulting partner for our clients.

We are HAPPIER at heart. Humble, Adaptable, Positive, Passionate, Innovative, Excellence focused, & Responsible. We live the HAPPIER Culture Code.

Being HAPPIER.

1. Customers. Partners. Our aim is to build relationships with customers for life. And meaningfully improve the life of every customer.
2. We do what we say. We say what we do. We are uncomfortably honest and transparent. Being genuine wins trust & makes people happier.
3. Mistakes are encouraged. We make mistakes. Tons of those. Everyday. And we don’t mind apologizing to our juniors, peers or superiors. We are no ego-doers.
4. Underpromise. Overdeliver. We work with a deep desire to go above and beyond in everything we do. Everytime.

Total Experience: 4-7 Years  

  Must Have (2-3yrs): 

Appium, Selenium or Protract, Any programming language, Cucumber framework 

 Good to Have (2-3yrs.): 

Restassured, Jenkins CI/CD Integration, Database Knowledge (SQL, ORACLE etc.), Github etc 

Position : Software Test Engineer

Location : San Francisco, USA

REQUIRED CITIZENSHIP / WORK PERMIT / VISA STATUS: USA with Valid work visa

The ideal candidate must have at least "3” years of active and recent experience with coding in Java to automate and as well as executing those scripts in an effort to test the functionality. Must be comfortable as a consultant, and have strong written and verbal communication skills.

Job Qualifications:

• · 3+ Years of hands-on Experience on Java with strong knowledge of OOPs
• · in computer science, software engineering, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or related area of study
• · Experience with Automation testing tool, preferred experience with Selenium Web Driver or custom test tool
• · Adequate working knowledge of JUnit or TestNG
• · Basic knowledge of SQL and/or any RDBMS
• · Knowledge of defect tracking and test management tools is desirable
• · Understanding of source code repositories and branching and merging strategies.
• · Awareness to Software Development and Testing life-cycle
• · Strong communication and problem-solving skills desired
• · Well versed with Internet technologies and infrastructure
• · Outstanding written and oral communication skills
• · Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills.
• · Can do attitude; yet challenges status quo
• · Works independently under minimal direction with strong work ethics
• · Desired experience in Mobile Automation or exposure to Mobile testing
• · Must have a BS or MS Degree in Computer Science or related field of study.

Preferred / Good to have skills :

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• · Knowledge of Perfecto or Mobile Cart device cloud
• · Knowledge of Appium
• · Knowledge of SOAP or REST API Services
• · Banking domain knowledge

Job Responsibilities:

• · Hands-on experience coding in Java
• · Work in highly collaborative teams that strive to build quality code and provide business value.
• · Should have a proven track record for quality and performance of code deliverable, strong communication and client-facing skills with the ability to work in a consulting environment.
• · Develop and provide recommendations to the existing framework for highly visible mission critical applications.
• · Utilize BDD part of your testing and should have previous BDD experience
• · Expertise in writing complex SQLCommand for backend testing and good knowledge of web application
• · Develop a repeatable process for designing, developing, and executing scripts. - Conduct tests, document and analyze test results and present findings to development teams.
• · Utilize Selenium, Java, Maven, Eclipse IDE, GitHub, Appium, , DevTest, TestNG , Junit and Jenkins to automate and virtualize applications
• · Create Test Plans, Cases and Scripts for UAT, functional and regression testing on Web applications, client applications and products.
• · Strong in any scripting language.

Responsibilities

• Understands aspects of Agile methodology in terms of Product Quality.
• Defect tracking tool like JIRA, Bugzilla etc.

Requirements

• Experience in Programming any language, preferably Java, OOPS concepts.
• Experience in API testing (Web Services), Web testing, Android and iOS Apps.
• Experience in writing SQL queries and exposure to MySQL DB, Mongo DB (good to have).
• Experience in Eclipse, IntelliJ, JUnit, Maven, TestNG, POI and respective open source tools.
• Experience in Selenium Web Driver for automation of Web and App.
• Experience in at least two design patterns.
• Experience in Apache, Tomcat and Unix/ Linux.
• Experience analytical, problem solving and communication skills.
• Good to have Jenkins exposure for CI/CD pipeline.
• Good to have Security, and Jmeter Performance testing experience.
• Must have good communication skill and should be a good team player with go getter" attitude.
• Good to have ISTQB certification.
• Should be from either of B.E., B.Tech, M.Tech, MCA background.
• Experience in Rest assured
• Skills: API Testing with Rest Assured

We are looking for a self-motivated independent thinker who can contribute to our Engineering Team. In this role you will take part in various projects, assessing software quality by designing and implementing software testing processes. You will take ownership of code quality through exploratory and automated tests. You will hunt bugs, identify issues, report them, and see that they’re dealt with. 

Core Responsibilities:

• You would have the opportunity to work with a number of leading edge technologies. 
• Write test cases to test code using automation frameworks, as well as create and continuously improve our test automation environment.
• Develop & maintain automated test scripts covering functional correctness using Object Oriented programming concepts, for both new features & Regression testing of existing functionality
• Understand software internals, debug code, automate repetitive tasks, and implement new tools and frameworks needed to streamline our QA process
• Work directly with both Software Development Engineers and Product Managers to understand features, review technical implementations, and implement testing strategy.
• Plan, create and manage the overall Quality Planning strategy, design documentation for automation processes 

Skills and Expertise: 

• Minimum 4 Years’ Experience
• Knowledge and proficiency in the use of various automated tools that are used in the Automated testing procedures. Execute interactive test procedures. Proficient in writing Automation scripts.
• Sound knowledge of programming and/or scripting languages. Java and Java script
• Good knowledge of SQL queries. Practical knowledge of web-based technologies
• Proven experience with Web-application Automation testing, Mobile apps testing.
• Understanding of OO concepts & its application to Automation framework
• Willingness to proactively engage in continuous process improvement
• Ability to communicate clearly with different areas of the business.Clarity of written communication when describing and issue or QA failure
• Experience in working with an Agile Development Methodology like Scrum
• Keen eye for detail and a commitment to excellence 

 Qualification:

• Bachelor’s degree required in Engineering