QA Engineer

Position Summary:

As a QA Engineer at LimeChat, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the quality and performance of our messaging and communication applications. You will primarily focus on manual testing to identify issues, validate product functionality, and provide feedback to our development teams. Additionally, you will be involved in automation testing to enhance efficiency and test coverage.

Key Responsibilities:

• Execute test cases, identify defects, and report issues accurately.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure product requirements and user expectations are met.
• Conduct manual testing of LimeChat's messaging applications to verify product functionality and user experience.
• Develop and maintain test plans and test cases for both new features and regression testing.
• Participate in design and implementation reviews to provide input on potential issues.
• Perform exploratory testing to uncover hidden defects and ensure a robust product.
• Automate test cases using testing frameworks and tools.
• Maintain and update automated test scripts as necessary.
• Execute automated test suites to improve test efficiency and coverage.
• Continuously monitor the quality of our applications and participate in the release process.
• Collaborate with developers to isolate and reproduce defects for faster resolution.
• Maintain and document testing processes and procedures for reference.
• Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement in quality assurance.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Proven experience as a QA Engineer, with a strong emphasis on manual testing.
• Familiarity with automation testing tools such as Selenium, Appium, or similar.
• Proficiency in writing and executing test cases.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Knowledge of software testing methodologies and best practices.
• Experience with mobile and web application testing.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills.
• Detail-oriented with a commitment to quality.
• Experience with testing APIs is a plus.

Design test plans, write test cases, review functional requirement documentation, and present test strategies for team review

• Conduct integration, regression, ad-hoc, and edge-case testing as part of release cycles
• Analyze complicated software system and design a strategy to test this system
• Understand and represent customer needs in product feedback discussions
• Participate in release management and post deployment testing
• Work closely with developer team to ensure proper test coverage is done
• Documentation and Release cycle

Job Profile Requirement : 

Experience of testing web applications, mobile applications.

• Knowledge of Responsive Testing
• Working knowledge of functional, GUI, Performance and Regression testing
• Strong knowledge of QA procedures, principles, and tools.
• Strong verbal and written (technical) communication skills to explain bugs and other issues identified and produce bug reports, documentation and feedback to both product owners and software developers.
• Ability to work in an environment of perfection and compliance to web standards and high design quality benchmarks.
• Strong organisational and time management skills - know what you need to do, and DO IT!

• Review requirements, specifications, and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback
• Create detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test cases
• Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activities
• Design, develop and execute automation scripts using open source tools
• Identify, record, document thoroughly, and track bugs
• Perform thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved
• Develop and apply testing processes for new and existing products to meet client needs
• Liaise with internal teams (e.g. developers and product managers) to identify system requirements
• Monitor debugging process results
• Investigate the causes of non-conforming software and train users to implement solutions
• Track quality assurance metrics, like defect densities and open defect counts
• Stay up-to-date with new testing tools and test strategies

• Knowledge of the quality assurance and testing concepts, methodologies, metrics, automated testing frameworks, and documentation standards.
• Should have knowledge/experience in creating Test Plans, Test scripts, Test cases.
• Collaborate well with others. Ability to translate technical concepts into easy-to-understand terms.
• Preferred knowledge/understanding of different mobile operating systems (Android, iOS)
• Preferred knowledge/experience testing both front-end (GUI)and back-end (database query) applications                                                        
• Experience using Git / Github

Skills:

* Should have excellent manual testing skills.
* Good knowledge in automation testing using Selenium WebDriver.
* Should have good written & communications skills to write the test cases and documentation.
* Good Analytical skill, Proactive, Capability of thinking through a scenario.
* Knowledge in mobile automation testing using Appium is a plus point.

Responsibilities:

• Creation of automated test scripts to reduce the amount of time and effort spent on testing.
• Strongly adhere to specification and style guides.
• Ensure the application meets the performance, quality and targets.
• Leverage new and established testing methodologies.
• Translate the given design document into proper Test Cases for maintainability.
• Work hand-in-hand with developers to understand the flow of modules and document it.

• Execution of test cases/test scripts for manual/automation testing.
• Should have working knowledge of SQL server.
• Design and create test conditions and scripts to address business and technical use cases.
• Analyze data and results of tests, record defects, provide status.
• Document, track and escalate issues as appropriate, using JIRA or similar tools/means.
• Participate in troubleshooting and triaging of issues with different teams to drive towards root cause identification and resolution.
• Build Deployment on Test Environment.

Requirements:

• Experience in end-to-end user testing for minimum 1-2 yrs.
• Have prior experience with manual testing in web and Android applications.
• Logging bugs, detailed test reports, screenshots, and videos in the bug tracker during pre-release and post-release testing.
• User & usability testing on the design prototypes being passed to the development team.
• Well versed with Agile testing methodologies.
• Opportunity to define, design, tool and implement entire Automated testing using Selenium/TestNG/Appium or any other tool of choice.
• Ability to stick to deadlines.
• Manage regular exploratory testing campaigns by employing a large number of short-term remote testers.
• Ability to operate in white-spaces where ambiguity or lack of knowledge might be imminent in tackling problems. In short, love the entire startup experience.
• Good Knowledge of Core Java.
• Good Knowledge in Selenium.
• Troubleshoot problems related to scripts, framework components,application changes, etc., and repair issues.
• Experience in working with Agile Projects and Scrum Process.
• Enable and/or perform development of test automation by designing and writing automated test scripts based on defined test cases,including the definition of test data for consumption by scripts during test execution.
• Must have experience in writing TDD and BDD test cases.
• Analyze test logs, and report test results/metrics.