QA Engineer

Key Responsibilities:

• Test Strategy & Planning: Develop and implement comprehensive test strategies and plans for the e-commerce gift card product, covering functional, regression, integration, and performance testing.
• Manual Testing: Conduct thorough manual testing when necessary, focusing on critical paths, edge cases, and user experience.
• Bug Management: Identify, document, and track bugs using JIRA or similar tools. Work with the development team to prioritize and resolve issues.
• Collaboration: Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including developers, product managers, and UX/UI designers, to understand requirements, provide feedback, and ensure product quality.
• Performance Testing: Lead efforts to test the scalability and performance of the gift card platform, ensuring it can handle high volumes of transactions and users.
• Documentation: Create and maintain detailed test documentation, including test cases, test scripts, and test reports.
• Continuous Improvement: Stay up-to-date with the latest QA tools, trends, and best practices. Continuously seek to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of QA processes.

About us:

TAPPP is leading the charge in bringing premium digital entertainment content & live sports to global consumers via its prepaid platform.

We are available across platforms via the Web, Mobile, and Tablets. Building out this brand presents significant product and engineering challenges. At the center of solving those challenges is the TAPPP Product Engineering team which is responsible for the TAPPP product end to end.

The organization is flat, processes are minimal, individual responsibility is big, and there is an emphasis on keeping non-productive influences out of the everyday technical decision-making process. Upholding these philosophies will be imperative as we execute our aggressive plan of global expansion over the next 2 years.

Who are we looking for:

We are looking for a QA engineer experienced in writing test cases based on user stories, creating reports, testing the application from a design & usability perspective, and supporting both manual and automated testing throughout the lifecycle of the product. As a QA Engineer, you will ensure that quality issues and defects are appropriately identified, documented, tracked, and resolved in our defect tracking system.

Mandatory technical skills:

• Proven working experience (Min 3 years) in software quality assurance
• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes
• Experience in writing clear, concise, and comprehensive test plans and test cases
• Hands-on experience with both white box & black box testing and automated testing tools
• Technology hands-on Selenium, Javascript, and SQL Scripting is a must
• Experience with Restful API testing – Postman jetpack, RestAssured
• Experience with performance/load/stress testing
• Experience in all stages of application testing including UI, backend, functional, regression
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process

Other

Strong independent contributor and an unquenchable desire to learn, attention to detail a can-do attitude

Comfortable working in a start-up environment

The position is based in Pune, India.

Before a product is released to the public, it goes through a lot of quality assurance testing: the QA lead organizes and manages that testing. In fact, the QA lead is just as responsible for a successful product launch as the engineers or developers involved in that project. This is a skilled profession that requires previous experience in quality assurance, preferably in the same industry as the company posting the job, along with prior management experience. QA leads typically keep full-time hours, but they may experience periods of overtime closer to product rollouts. Candidates who enjoy testing products and working in fast-paced environments are a great fit for this role.

• 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.

•  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

• 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

• 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

QA Engineer

StyleCracker is the most innovative fashion tech platform in the country. With a vision to make India stylish, we have developed the StyleCracker Box that combines leading technology and first hand stylist experience to curate highly personalised looks for every unique customer.

We're looking to build upon our solid foundation and develop an unmatched solution that can truly help us work towards our mission.

• Responsible for the quality of product visible to millions of users.
• Prepare proper documentation for test cases, release notes, etc.
• Keep track of bugs and prioritize those in coordination with Product Managers.
• Write and execute detailed test cases for upcoming features and ensure customer requirements and development is closely aligned.
• Contribute ideas to improve/develop our QA processes and best practices based on your extensive experience.
• Troubleshoot application issues and coordinate issue resolution with developers, PMs and internal teams.
• Ensure that software functionality is implemented with a focus on code optimization and organization.

• Excellent understanding of software development life cycle.
• Should be strong in writing use cases.
• Strong understanding of determining the cause of bugs.
• Excellent knowledge of API responses, statuses, etc.
• Excellent understanding of load time optimization, latency, etc.
• Hands on experience with performance measuring tools like jMeter, Postman, etc.
• Experience with using the latest engineering tools (eg. Jenkins, JIRA, Confluence, Git/Perforce).
• Excellent team orientation and communication skills.
• Good knowledge of frontend and backend technologies.
• Knowledge of automation testing tools such as Selenium.
• Experience working in agile methodology.
• Experience with API automation testing.
• Ability to multitask, prioritize, manage workload and consistently deliver results.
• Understanding of the different types of testing between UAT, Security and Performance.
• Ability to generate benchmarks by comparing similar products / services.

• Bachelors or masters degree in computer science or a related field.
• 2 – 3 years experience as a QA engineer on native mobile (android and ios) and web applications.

• 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 test cases based on the use cases and considering various quality aspects.
• Perform thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved
• Perform in-depth and thorough testing of the owned features/areas.
• Maintain the test cases and test results in test management system.
• Maintain the defects in defect Management system.
• Plan and realise the test environment, platforms, test cycles and regression cycles based on the strategy and quality evaluation at different stages of the product.
• Keep updated on the latest testing and domain technologies, test coverage methodologies and quality metrics.
• Develop skills on automation and testing tools.
• Should guide junior members in performing their activities effectively and help them develop technical skills.

• BE/B-Tech/BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
• Should have at least 4 years of relevant experience in QA.
• Proven working experience in software quality assurance
• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes
• Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test cases
• Hands-on experience with both white box and black box testing
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process
• Experience with performance and/or security testing is a plus
• Hands-on experience with automated testing tools is a plus
• Knowledge of SQL and scripting is big plus