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.

• As a Senior Software Test Engineer, your primary responsibility will be to test/qualify new products and enhancements to existing products as part of a cross functional team. You are required to verify and validate software changes for new products, enhancements and defects.
• Responsible for verifying that the software complies with the requirements and that the various customer use-cases can be satisfactorily met by the software.
• Work very closely with the project/baseline manager and development team to understand the architecture and design of the system and the interaction between various software sub-systems and components.
• Prepare and execute test plans for software releases, document and automate test cases to exercise the various features and capabilities of the software, identify and capture bugs and related information in the bug tracking database.
• Develop higher complexity test cases, test suite selection and execute all necessary testing activity required for a customer software release (negative and backward compatibility scenarios) per assignment, group objectives and product requirements.
• Document, enhance and maintain regression test procedures over the lifecycle of the software.
• Execute the software release test plans and certify that a software release has met the quality criterion(s) for various phase exits (pre-alpha, alpha, beta).
• Participate in troubleshooting and triaging of issues with different teams to drive towards root cause identification and resolution
• Independently manage schedule for his/her projects and deliverables, seamlessly works with all key stakeholders to ensure delivery is never on the critical path
• Consistently look out for areas of improvement in all areas of software product development and processes, champions implementation of identified best practices

• Strong understanding of SDLC processes and the QA lifecycle and methodology
• Prior experience in supervisory control systems software would be a plus (but not mandatory)
• Strong knowledge of software test methodologies, tools, standards and processes.
• Good hands on programing experience in any of the scripting/programming languages (C++, C#, Java Script)
• Strong interpersonal skills. Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Prior experience of working in global teams and interfacing with multiple stake holders

• Reviews design specifications to understand the scope, requirements, and function of the software product.
• Preparation of test data and execution of test cases (including functional, system, regression, performance, API and database layer etc.)
• Identifies appropriate processes, parameters, functions, and data to test and validate; parameters may include general function, the validity of results, accuracy, reliability, and compliance with industry standards.
• Lead and participate in test case reviews with Business, Developers, other team members
• Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activities
• Ensure that user expectations are met during the testing process
• Design, develop and execute automation scripts using open source tools
• When a product does not perform within specifications, reporting defects to programmers while identifying and recommending solutions, improvements, and updates.
• Identifies, logs, and recreates error codes, bugs, and defects.
• Draft quality assurance policies and procedures
• Investigate production issues
• Conducts testing to ensure products perform according to product requirements and within established guidelines.

Job Aim

 To perform software tests to ensure quality

Responsibilities

 Review of software requirements

 Preparation of test cases

 Automating responsive layout

 Reporting of defects

 Preparation of test reports

Essential Skills

 Load testing

 Identify Security vulnerabilities

 Teamwork

 Programming knowledge for automation testing

 Selenium Web Driver