QA Engineer

Job Description

We are building a global content marketplace that brings companies and content creators together to scale up content creation processes across 10 content verticals and 150+ content categories. Over the past 3.5 years we’ve worked with brands like India Today, Amazon India, Adobe, Swiggy, Dunzo, Businessworld, Times Group, Digit, Wittyfeed, YourStory etc. along with 350+ brand companies like BookMyShow, UpGrad, Yulu, Paisabazaar, Zivame, Yatra, Bewakoof, Imarticus Learning etc. to create content that is meticulous and customized according to our clients' needs.

We are on the path to building a global on-demand content marketplace platform that allows for collaboration, discovery and upskilling for all our creators. Now we are in a rapid expansion phase to enter into more content service offerings and engage a wide spectrum of content creators, and to facilitate all our ambitions, we are planning to launch multiple product verticals and we are looking for a QA Engineer who has a keen eye for user interaction and production functioning, and a curious mind to tangle-and-untangle them.

• We’re looking for someone who is enthusiastic, comfortable with uncertainty, flexible, great with people and isn’t afraid to roll up their sleeves and get their hands dirty.
• If you think you have the spark and a constantly simmering pot of ideas, this is the chance for you!

 

Job Responsibilities:

• Take ownership of the testing, identifying issues and subsequent fixing in entire PDLC
• Work with cross-functional teams to ensure quality throughout the software development lifecycle
• Conduct post-release/ post-implementation testing
• Quality review and signoff of new features
• Understand product architecture and functionality
• Create Test Case/Test script writing
• Should be ready to convert unvaried test cases into automated test scripts
• Create, maintain, and execute functional, regression, and exploratory tests
• Provide test case coverage and defect metrics to substantiate release decisions
• Provide support and assistance to business and users on reported production issues
• Creates temporary "work-arounds" for immediate customer/ end users issues
• Communicate with PMs and engineers on reported issues
• Participate in product discussions & refine the acceptance criteria
• Communicate high-value use cases and customer feedback to the product team

 

The ideal candidate must have -

• At least 2 years of practical experience in defining, developing, maintaining and executing test cases
• Prior experience dealing with full product development lifecycles and multiple releases
• Experience of working with Web, Mobile, and API Testing
• Basic understanding of good programming practices, architecture and design patterns
• Knowledge of Performance & Security Testing
• Solid analytical & problem-solving skills and experience of working in Agile process management methodology
• Should be excellent at communication, be able to explain ideas clearly.
• Must be extremely proactive and self-starter.
• Good knowledge of test automation tools like PyTest, Mocha, Cypress or comparable is a big plus.

 

Roles & Responsibility :

- Customer centricity : We believe an ability to empathize with merchants and customers will help us outperform the competition and motivate us to innovate. The developer should be able to prioritize the roadmap based on customer needs.

- Outcome and data-oriented : The developer should have the ability to define the economic rationale for every major effort and translate it into metrics. There should be an obsession with data for business iterations and improvements.

- Hands-on & Willingness to go above and beyond: For start-ups the responsibilities and needs of the business change quickly. We're looking for a developer who is not afraid to take on new challenges and can deal with ambiguity.

- Ability to work with cross-functional teams : The developer must be able to manage cross-functional teams - customer care, product, merchants, compliance & finance teams. Having the experience of managing healthy conflicts and driving people towards customer goals and organization priorities would be valued.

Requirement :

- Good Understanding Software development life cycle and testing lifecycle

- Good at testing Mobile, Web and API

- Basics of performance and load testing

- Experience in financial service would be preferred

- Fearless - not afraid to suggest or back big ideas however disruptive they may be

- Excellent knowledge in testing skills (design test plan and test strategy, writing test cases, executing test cases, opening bugs, verifying bugs)

- Good level in SQL/database

- Candidate with at least 2-4 years.

This person MUST have: 

 

- BE Computer Science, MCA or equivalent. 

- Experience testing IOT devices managed by cloud. 

- Manual testing experience and a desire to learn and work with the latest technologies. Web, Cloud and Mobile App testing. 

- Develop test plans, cases, and scripts; schedule and execute test cycles; contribute to testability & quality of software. 

- Reports all defects accurately; facilitate problem tracking and successful resolution; assess and communicate various risks involved and provide necessary assistance to engineers and stakeholders. 

- Basic knowledge of automation know-how [ API automation, Python] - Test to fail mindset, Solid test strategy experience, well versed with QA processes. - Hands on experience on Performance test angle. 

 

Experience: 

- Min 1 year experience 

- Not more than 10 year experience. 

 

Location 

- Remotely, anywhere in India 

 

Timings:

- 40 hours a week (9 PM IST to 2 AM IST(10 hours in your suitable time) , Monday to Saturday). 

 

Position: 

- Full time/Direct 

- We have great benefits such as PF, medical insurance, 12 annual company holidays, 12 PTO leaves per year, annual increments, Diwali bonus, spot bonuses and other incentives etc. 

- We dont believe in locking in people with large notice periods. You will stay here because you love the company. We have only a 15 days notice period. 

Job Profile: 

• 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.

Candidate Profile

•  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

Required Skills

• 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

Position Description

 

Key Responsibilities and Requirements

• Contributes to overall business results by making recommendations that significantly improve operational efficiency and effectiveness of Travel Industry
• Facilitate the analysis, design and programming of viable solutions to high complexity business problems according to user specifications
• Ensure that systems are functionally appropriate, technically sound and integrated
• Document and create test cases and to execute and verify those test cases as part of the overall functional testing of Information Technology products
• Contribute to test planning including API Testing
• Participate in the activities to develop and execute test to validate system functionality against specifications
• Take lead role in the testing of small to medium sized products
• Ensure that systems software is thoroughly tested
• Solid understanding of Quality Assurance methods and practices
• Deep understanding of manual and automated testing concepts
• 3 to 5 years’ experience as a QA Analyst/Engineer or similar role with a heavy focus on Automation Testing.
• Experience with high volume consumer-oriented web sites
• Experience working in an Agile Scrum environment
• Experience with formal test procedures, release management
• Experience in Travel industry experience, GDS’s - SABRE, Amadeus, and Travelport
• Ability to distill complex business needs into functional requirements
• Excellent follow-up, verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent problem-solving skills and an ability to make good decisions
• Team player with a professional attitude and learn new products
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and maintain tight schedules
• Ability to work effectively with a geographically dispersed team in India and United States
• Strong skill and experience analyzing data sets of all sizes.

 

Strategic and Development Responsibilities

• Communicate effectively with Executive, Marketing, Sales and Operations teams in gathering product requirements, reporting results and managing expectations.
• Willingness to work flexible and/or extended hours as necessary and travel internationally on occasion.
• Specifically participate in the following: market research, requirements gathering and documentation, architecture design, resource allocation, issue delegation, release management, project timelines, source code protection, testing/QA (use cases) and outsourcing.
• Ability to "think outside the box"
• Ability to provide accurate and timely project estimates.

 

 

Education

• Bachelor of Science in CS, MIS, or equivalent.

 

Job Description :

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!

Job Title: Manual Test Engineers | Location: Pune | Experience: 2- 4 years | Position Type: QA Engineer | 2+ Years | fluidonomics QA Engineer | 2+ Years Openings for manual test engineers in Banking / Non Banking Finance / Insurance domain. Required Skills Developing Test scenarios / cases Execution of test cases Creation of defectMaintaining defect lists Planning of testing tasks Documentation of test results and reports Be a team- player with open and proactive communication with all stakeholders Qualifications 2- 4years experience (Minimum 1 year experience in Banking / Non Banking Finance / Insurance domain) Must be able to meet deadlines promised to our clients Good communication skills are a must Desire to take initiative and be a self- starter.

# THE OPPORTUNITY

Describe the ideal candidate here.

All of the GaragePlug product modules have critical workflows, and the new developers need to be more confident and fearless about making changes in the system. This will help to deliver products faster to the customers while building more robust products.

We have developed an in-house framework for manually testing the features/product before the launch. This has helped us to catch more than 1000 bugs before releasing the feature in production.

Think of this as the backbone that will help engineers from the product team to automate critical workflows and coordinate bug bashes for all the product teams. Your understanding of functional testing, writing maintainable tests, written and verbal communication skills will be put to the test.

# WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

### **Within 1st month**

- Learn all aspects of products and critical workflows for each of the products as part of your training.
- Setup the dev environment and organise your first bug bash.
- Have a one-one chat with every member of the GaragePlug team so you get to know everyone well.
- 1-hour session every week with one of the product & quality experts from other Upekkha startups
- Weekly 2 times join sales and customer success team for pre-sales customer demos to understand the product usage
- Weekly 1 session with customer success team to know more about the domain and product usage
- Start writing the functional test case masters for core modules

### **Within 3 months**

- You’ll start developing your first project all by yourself.(With some guidance)
- Write your first set of automation code and work with other engineers to setup functional testing workflows.
- Have an exhaustive test-case/scenarios for all product components
- Be responsible for the product release and release process automation

### **Within 6 months**

- You’ll automate five to six critical workflows for the existing product.
- Establish process for writing functional test that will impact the entire product.
- Be comfortable navigating most of our stack and infrastructure.
- Be responsible for the planning, scoping, design, and implementation of new bug-bashes.

### **Within 12 months**

- You’ll automate at least 60-70%of the workflows in product and completely own QA as a function.
- Participate in interviewing and hiring, as a way to influence team growth and how our values inform our culture.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, sales and customer success leadership to define priorities and set delivery goals.

# **WHAT AN IDEAL CANDIDATE WOULD LOOK LIKE**

- We use Spring-boot microservices for backend and Angular 2+/Ionic 3+ for frontend. We prefer someone with experience in selenium, but it is not necessary. You must have experience of working with testing frameworks like selenium, tools, or SaaS products for functional testing like [cypress.io](https://cypress.io/).
- Dedicated to testing. While testing can sometimes get repetitive and monotonous, it is critical to our engineering efforts.
- 2-4 years of experience with automated functional testing.
- Pays great attention to detail and helps identify edge cases.
- A knack for breaking things. You should be driven to test with the motive of breaking the application.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

**Personality traits we really admire**

- Great attitude to ask questions, learn and suggest process improvements.
- Excellent problem solving and analytical skills.
- Previous work experience at a product-based company or startup would be a bonus.
- You are a team player

**Our tech stack is Java Spring-boot, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Angular 2+, Ionic 3+, Typescript. Our platform is hosted on AWS Cloud.**

# **INTERVIEW PROCESS AND PREP NOTES**

- **Problem Solving & Analytical Skills:** We are a Java & Angular shop, and if you say that you will improve the quality of the product, we expect you to know basics of typescript and/or Java (but not mandatory)
- **Blackbox Testing:** Be prepared to answer some simulation-based questions during our interviews. From writing the requirements for a test case to planning & executing test plans on the GaragePlug platform, watch out for some hard-hitting questions.
- **Culture Round:** Understand if your values and beliefs fit in with your company’s culture. Be yourself. This is for both sides to evaluate if we're a cultural fit for each other.
- **Founder Round:** Discussion with both the founders of the company. This round helps us evaluate how we both can mutually benefit each other.

# **WHY JOIN US**

- **Freedom & Responsibility:** If you are a person who wants to take up challenging work & push your boundaries with no one monitoring you, then this is the right place for you. There are no hierarchies. No managers to please.
- **Great Salary & Equity:** For our top performers and leaders, we grant stock options. As GaragePlug continues to grow, you’ll have a real opportunity to create wealth for yourself and your family. We pay great salaries too!
- **Transparency:** If you ever wanted to know what it’s like to be on an entrepreneurial journey, then working with GaragePlug gives you that opportunity to experience it all first hand.

If all of this sounds exciting to you, join us for an exciting and equally fulfilling ride at GaragePlug!

Responsibilities Review and analyze system specifications Execute test cases (manual or automated) and analyze results Evaluate product code according to specifications Create logs to document testing phases and defects Report bugs and errors to development teams Help troubleshoot issues Conduct post-release/ post-implementation testing Work with cross-functional teams to ensure quality throughout the software development lifecycle Requirements Proven experience as a Quality Assurance Tester or similar role Experience in project management and QA methodology Familiarity with Agile frameworks and regression testing is a plus Ability to document and troubleshoot errors Working knowledge of test management software (e.g. qTest, Zephyr) and SQL Excellent communication skills Attention to detail Analytical mind and problem-solving aptitude Strong organizational skills

Job Description :Thrymr Software, a technology solution partner for medium and large global customers, is seeking for a QA Engineer, who can take ownership for the end to end quality of our software projects/products.Thrymr is- rapidly growing outsourced product development startup. Our primary development center is in Hyderabad- (Financial District).- Thrymr is also in Singapore, Hamburg (Germany) and Amsterdam (Netherlands). Responsibilities :- Create comprehensive test plans with well defined, reusable test cases from business requirements and functional specifications documents.- Execute software testing to include functional testing, system testing, regression testing, and performance testing- Record and maintain automated test script libraries for functional regression testing for assigned applications; maintain and improve existing automated tests, and adding new ones as appropriate- Document software defects in an issues tracking system and proactively communicate issues with developers and other project team members- Participate in business requirements and functional specifications reviews early in the software development lifecycle process- Ensure the timeline for quality assurance and testing is optimizedMust Haves:- BE / B.Tech / BCA / ME / M.Tech / MCA degree- 1+ years working experience in Manual and Automation testing- Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes- Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test casesDesirable Skills :- ISTQB certifications- Due to the technical nature of the role, having a strong understanding of one or more querying languages, such as SQL, and programming languages, such as C, JAVA, would be advantageous.-Experience with performance, load testing, and security testing- Hands-on experience with both white box and black box testing- Experience working in continuous integration and the continuous delivery environment.Happy go lucky attitude!