QA Engineer

MCS is seeking a meticulous and detail-oriented Quality Analyst to join our team. As a Quality Analyst, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the highest standards of quality and efficiency in our products or services. Your primary responsibility will be to assess and evaluate processes, identify areas for improvement, and develop strategies to enhance quality across all aspects of our organization.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement quality assurance standards, procedures, and methodologies to ensure consistency and excellence in our products, services, or processes.
• Conduct comprehensive evaluations and audits of products, services, or processes to identify deviations, defects, or areas of improvement.
• Maintain detailed records of quality assessments, findings, and recommendations.
• Create and update quality documentation, including standard operating procedures.
• Investigate the root causes of quality issues and collaborate with relevant teams to implement corrective and preventive actions.
• Provide guidance and training to teams and employees on quality standards, best practices, and continuous improvement methodologies.
• Establish feedback mechanisms and channels for employees and customers to report quality-related concerns or suggestions for improvement.
• Prepare and deliver regular reports on quality performance, highlighting areas of success and areas requiring attention.
• Ensure that our processes and products adhere to relevant industry standards, regulations, and compliance requirements
• Drive a culture of continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to streamline processes and enhance quality.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or Master's degree in a relevant field (Quality Management, Business, Engineering, etc.)
• Proven experience in quality assurance or quality control, preferably in a similar industry.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Proficiency in quality management tools and methodologies (e.g., Six Sigma, Lean, ISO standards).
• Excellent communication skills.
• Attention to detail and a commitment to precision.
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.
• Familiarity with quality management software and tools.

If you have a keen eye for detail, a passion for process improvement, and the ability to drive positive change, we invite you to apply. This role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on our organization's quality standards and contribute to our ongoing success. Apply today to be a part of our quality-driven team!

Requirements:

Our client owns and operates multiple brands in the personal advice industry connecting customers to advisors through its proprietary marketplace platform. Their platform has enabled 50+ million conversations with independent experts across a number of fields including relationship advice, spiritual advice, life coaching, and career advice.

Our client is based in San Francisco, USA, and is expanding in Bangalore to bring in top talent and build out exciting new features for their customer-facing e-commerce products. They are looking for top test/quality assurance (QA) engineers to ensure their very high-quality bar is met and raised. As a Quality Assurance Engineer, you will develop and execute feature and regression test suites to ensure product quality.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Work closely with a scrum team and collaborate in all stages of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Key contributor for manual end-to-end functional & regression testing"
• Review feature specifications and design documents and provide timely and meaningful feedback
• Own the acceptance criteria process with developers and create detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test cases for features
• Estimating, prioritizing, planning, and coordinating testing activities with the rest of the QA team along with releases
• Identify, record, document, and track bugs
• Collaborate with internal teams (e.g. developers, product managers, stakeholders) to identify requirements and communicate progress & releases

Desired Skills & Experience:

• At least 5 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance / Software Development
• Experience in agile & scrum methodologies
• Ability to write clear and comprehensive acceptance criteria, test plans, and test cases
• Hands-on experience with both white box and black box testing
• Excellent communication skills
• Knowledge of SQL scripting
• BS degree in Computer Science/Engineering or a related subject is a plus
• Automation experience within the Selenium framework (Java) is a plus
• Performance (stress/load) testing is a plus

Perks & Benefits:

• Friendly, talented, collaborative, and entrepreneurial team
• Competitive and comprehensive benefits and perks
• Generous holiday and PTO policies
• Training and development opportunities and allowance
• Fun and inclusive digital, and (in the future) in-person events
• Employee groups - DEI committee, fun committee, wellness group, and more
• Flexible remote work

The company is the industry-leading collection of online destinations (including Astrology.com, Horoscope.com, Keen, and PsychicCenter) providing spiritual guidance on love, relationships, career, health, and life overall. They are passionate about connecting people with the world's best advisors (including psychics, tarot card readers, life coaches, and more) and content to empower everyone to live happier lives.

A team of over 100 employees is powered by their diverse perspectives and company core

values:

• They are humble. They believe the best result is achieved by leveraging others perspectives
• They think like owners. They make decisions that optimize for the greater good of the organization
• They challenge limiting beliefs. They are at their best when they identify and shatter the status quo expectations

The company is an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. They are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status.

About Us:

Aakash EduTech Pvt. Ltd. (AEPL) is the digital learning arm of Aakash Education Services Ltd. (AESL). AEPL is a rock solid team of 800+ passionate individuals within 2 strong online learning brand names, under its umbrella:

Aakash Digital(digital.aakash.ac.in) geography access to education in the test-prep segment by removing barriers of geography, income, safety or time. Our unique digital offerings i.e. Aakash Live - live online classes, Aakash iTutor - recorded video lectures and Aakash Practest - integrated test series facilitate right guidance to students preparing for competitive exams from the safety and comfort of their homes. We have a reach in almost 7+ countries and 750+ cities world-wide.

Meritnation  (http://www.meritnation.com/">www.meritnation.com) is India’s leading online learning platform for school students with over 2.0 crore enrolled students across CBSE, ICSE and leading state boards. It's an online tuition company with course offerings for class 1 to 12. The company has subscribers PAN India as well as in the Mid-East and has offices across 15 cities in India. Meritnation was a pioneer in Live Classes with more than 80,000+ hours of live class delivered on the platform till date.

What We Are Looking For:

- The candidate should have experience in manual testing, GUI testing, functional testing and load testing.

- knowledge of automated testing tools preferable open source like JMeter, Selenium etc.

- The candidate should have experience in writing and executing test cases.

- Good understanding of SDLC and STLC concepts; Ability to effectively prioritize assignments as well as unplanned issues.

- Knowledge of web-based applications is a must.

- Defect reporting, coordination with development team, defect logging, defect tracking tools like Bugzilla or Bugnet, bug reporting etc

- Completing assigned work with proper focus on design aspects, modular, coding standards, process adherence, optimized and readable code and minimal rework required

- Ability to work productively in a dynamic, priority shifting, deadline-driven environment with no/minimum supervision

- Self-initiative in reading and learning about new technologies, other modules of the application, newer and better ways of doing things

- Good teamwork, positive and constructive collaboration and communication with everybody

Required Skills

Both Manual and Automation testing(Basic Knowledge ) cover functional and performance testing.

Qualifications: Bachelor degree or Equivalent

• Good knowledge of STLC, SDLC
• Various manual testing concepts and techniques
• Compatibility testing on various environments
• MS Excel formulas
• Database queries
• Experience in testing agile projects
• Finance and accounting domain knowledge
• Effective Test planning and Test Effort Estimation Skills
• Suggest improvements to enhance the overall user experience of the software.
• Able to deliver bug-free software within the deadline with minimum supervision
• Quick learning capabilities. Young and Dynamic. Work closely with team members, support team

• 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.

Candidate should have experince in L2 L3 Testing
Experience in Automation, Manual and Rgression Testing
Scripting language Python
Experience in Networking