QA – Automation tester

Job Title: QA Tester (Manual Testing)

Department: Technology

Location: Remote

Company: Mercer Talent Enterprise

Company Overview:

Mercer Talent Enterprise is a leading provider of talent management solutions, dedicated to helping organizations optimize their workforce. We foster a collaborative and innovative work environment where our team members can thrive and contribute to our mission of enhancing talent strategies for our clients.

Position Overview:

We are looking for a detail-oriented QA Tester to join our Lighthouse Tech Team. In this role, you will be responsible for performing manual testing of our software applications to ensure they meet the highest quality standards. You will work closely with developers and product managers to identify testing requirements and ensure that all features function as intended.

Key Responsibilities:

• Execute manual test cases and document results.
• Identify, report, and track defects in a timely manner.
• Collaborate with the development team to understand application functionality and testing requirements.
• Participate in test planning and design activities.
• Conduct regression testing and ensure that existing functionality is not affected by new changes.
• Provide feedback on usability and user experience.
• Assist in the development of testing documentation and processes.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 1+ years of experience in manual software testing.
• Strong understanding of software testing methodologies and best practices.
• Experience with defect tracking tools (e.g., Azure,JIRA, Bugzilla).
• Excellent attention to detail and analytical skills.
• Strong communication and teamwork abilities.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.
• Professional development opportunities.

# About Us

It is **Slack for Construction Industry** that helps construction project owners and contractors track on-site progress in real-time to finish projects on time and in the budget. We aim to bring the speed of software development to infrastructure development.

Founded by IIT Roorkee alumni and backed by industry experts, we are on a mission to help the second largest industry in India-Construction make a transition from pen and paper to digital.

# About the team

As a productivity app startup, we value productivity and ownership most. That helps raise our own bar and the bar of people we hire.

We follow agile and scrum approaches for product development and use best of class tools and practices. Measuring our progress on a weekly basis and iterating fast enables us to build breakthrough modules and features rapidly.

If you join us, You will be constantly throw in difficult situations. Decisions that you take, will directly impact our clients and sales. That's how we learn.

# Requirements -

- 1-3 years of experience testing

- Good with testing concepts, understands test life cycle

- Good bug reporting and communication skills

- Understands release process and past experience of release process

- Understanding the business criticality & being Flexible

- Sound knowledge on Compatibility testing

- Hands on experience on both Web and Mobile platforms

# Responsibilities -

- Domain/Product knowledge would be an added value

- Automation skills for mobile application is an added advantage

- Knowledge and experience on debugging tools (Adb, Xcode, Jmeter, etc.)

• Defining, implementing and executing regression and stress automation tests focused on embedded software and device firmware level
• Analyzing automation test results for failures, identifying issue trends and quantifying impact
• Isolating and reporting defects effectively quantifying customer impact and verifying fixes through regression testing and other test methodologies
• Working cross-functionally with other QA teams, Developers and Project Managers

Desired Candidate Profile

• BE– CS/ECE, MS, ME, MTech
• 2+ years of QA experience, preferably on consumer hardware/ software products
• Automation experience in modern scripting or compiled languages (Python, JavaScript, C etc.)
• Experience with hardware and/ or software development lifecycle processes
• Knowledge of Unix and Unix shell scripting
• Ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience
• Deep understanding of SQA methodologies and practices
• Ability to solve hard problems with creative and sustainable solutions
• Be detail-oriented and strive for the best product for our customers
• Self-motivated with the ability to drive features to delivery
• Should have strong hands on experience in developing applications
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Good logical sense, strong technical skills and the ability to learn new technologies quickly    

QA Engineer

You will impact our users directly! This job requires you to constantly hit the ground running and your ability to learn quickly and work on disparate and overlapping tasks will define your success. Your job will often require coordination between multiple Development, Product,  Operations and Business groups, so you get to experience a breadth of impact with various groups.

The ideal candidate must be detail oriented, obsessed with customer experience, have superior verbal and written communication skills, strong organizational skills, able to juggle multiple tasks at once, able to work independently and can maintain professionalism under pressure. You must be able to identify problems before they happen and implement solutions that detect and prevent outages. You must be able to accurately prioritize projects, make sound judgments, work to improve the customer experience, and get the right things done.

Position Overview

• You will be responsible for all testing of an entire project across various platforms
• You will own the development and execution of test plans and test cases for multiple features of an application
• You will develop and maintain testing strategies, including manual and automation testing.
• You will ensure comprehensive test coverage by working closely with the product and engineering teams to prioritize testing execution and report on test execution progress and results.
• You will participate in design and specification reviews, and use this information to design test plans.
• You will promote QA productivity through automation, tools, and other best practices.
• You will promote a culture of quality throughout the organization.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ year of experience working as a Quality Assurance Engineer
• Experience in manual testing across android app, mobile web and desktop applications
• Bachelor's Degree
• Expertise in test methodologies and test processes.
• Ability to understand technical specifications and generate test cases from them
• Good in communicating with developers and technical leaders, even if they are remote.
• Strong organizational skills, ability to track multiple test executions simultaneously and synthesize the results
• Shows creativity and initiative to improve product coverage and effectiveness.
• Should be able to generate test reports and dashboards for management communication.

• 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

• 3+ years demonstrated experience in the Testing Web & mobile applications.
• 1+ Years of experience in Js based Web application testing. (Like: Angular Js, Vue Js, react js)
• Create and maintain API-based automation test scripts using tools like J meter, SoapUI or Postman
• API Automation using Soap UI/Rest assured / Postman (Mandatory)
• Create and maintain API specific test plans
• Conducting Performance and Load tests on the API's and provide detailed report and analysis on metrics like Breakage point etc.
• Participate in creating and clarifying User Stories, and in planning Sprints.
• Maintaining all the testing artefacts in SharePoint.
• Updating test management tools (JIRA / Bugzilla etc) so that the current status of the project can be known at any time by stakeholders.
• Issue tracking, analysis and reporting.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Job Description:

We are looking for Quality Analysts responsible for ensuring the quality of our products. Your primary responsibility will be to understand the product scope, prepare test cases, and execute test cases and to coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure. Thus, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated user experience and product quality is essential.

 Skills Required:

• Should possess excellent knowledge about software testing
• If candidate has done any testing certification or any relevant experience, will be preferred
• Analyzing the requirements from clients
• Should have very good written and verbal communication skills
• Arranging Test Environment to execute the test cases
• Hands on experience to write test plans and test cases.
• Defect Tracking
• Should have keen eye for detail and can create clear, concise detail-oriented test plans/cases

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