QA Engineer

Job Description:

We are seeking a detail-oriented Manual Tester to develop, document, and maintain comprehensive test plans and test cases based on software requirements. The ideal candidate will have experience in testing web and mobile applications, collaborating with Product Owners (POs), Development Leads, and providing effort estimations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop, document, and maintain comprehensive test plans and test cases based on software requirements.
• Collaborate with Product Owners (POs) and Development Leads to understand project requirements and provide effort estimations.
• Perform thorough manual testing of software applications, including functional, regression, integration, system, and user acceptance testing.
• Execute test cases and report results in a detailed and structured manner.
• Identify, document, and track defects and inconsistencies in the software using appropriate tools.
• Work closely with developers, product managers, and other stakeholders to understand project requirements and provide feedback on testability and quality.
• Communicate test progress, test results, and other relevant information to stakeholders in a clear and concise manner.
• Perform exploratory testing to identify areas of potential risk and areas not covered by formal test cases.
• Ensure all testing activities are conducted in accordance with the Agile methodology.

Qualifications:

• Proven experience in manual testing of web and mobile applications.
• Strong understanding of software testing methodologies, tools, and processes.
• Experience in developing and maintaining test plans and test cases.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to interact effectively with developers, product managers, and other stakeholders.
• Ability to identify, document, and track defects and inconsistencies in the software.
• Experience working in an Agile development environment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Detail-oriented with a commitment to quality.

Alternative Path is looking for a Senior QA, to assist one of its clients, which is a SAAS platform helping alternative investment firms to streamline their document collection and data extraction process using Machine Learning. 

This role is responsible for leading quality review of various applications and includes creating test plans and strategy, test cases in partnership with developers, business analysts and project managers which are used to shape and verify code and check conformance to system requirements. The role relies upon test automation and manual testing tools.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyse and interpret business requirements and end-user feedback to provide meaningful and timely inputs and apply analysis to the testing process.
• Create comprehensive Testing Strategies/ Plans, describing the testing scope, strategy, techniques, approach, and test data that you will use to test new features.
• Report defects for issues found under testing and manage the defect through its life cycle.
• Create Test cases, relevant test execution reports and bug reports and use them to convey current state of feature under test
• Collaboratively work with the design and development team members to resolve identified issues/bugs in timely manner.
• Apply the functionality knowledge and understanding to determine the impacted testing areas and come up with the relevant regression testing scope, plan, and timelines.
• Do regression, exploratory testing along with planned and documented testing for new features.
• Do automation planning towards automation testing of features and create automation scripts at UI and API levels using appropriate tools.
• Take a stand and share views on the quality of feature under test, back it up with necessary data and metrics, use it to provide (or not provide) release sign off.
• Do defect analysis of bugs found in Production environment and come up with systemized solutions to avoid these occurrences in the future.
• Collaboratively work across all areas of IT development, actively liaising with developers and business stakeholders to improve overall quality and performance.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of the QA test strategy and process.
• Be aware of and understand the impact to QA of any new technologies being introduced.

Desired Skills and Experience

Technical

• Candidate must be a Graduate/Postgraduate with proven experience in QA Engineering field.
• Candidate has 3 to 5 years of experience in Quality Engineering field.
• Candidate has strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes.
• Hands on experience of using tooling for Test Case Management, Defect M.
• Strong Analytical, logical reasoning, problem-solving skills with Good Aptitude and communication.
• Flexible to work in designated shift hours to facilitate global communication.
• Be willing to help your teammates, share your knowledge with them, and learn from them.
• Be open to receiving constructive feedback and turning it into process improvements.

Personal

• Able to question the status quo
• Out-of-the-box thinking
• Smart & agile
• Fast learner
• Able to work autonomously
• Eager to learn new technologies

• Managing the solving of problems concerning the test automation infrastructure
• Understand and maintain Test Automation Frameworks.
• Follow the coding standards and code walk through.
• Maintain Automation Standards and Processes documentation.
• Write automated test scripts under the direction of the Test Automation Lead.
• Ability to work independently on tasks / modules assigned related to automation
• Monitoring of and reporting on the progress of the test automation process
• Reporting on the quality of the test object
• Raise risks on time and provide alternate solutions to mitigate the risk
• Advice and support for the implementation of all types of tools

• Ensure processes used for system testing are adequate and appropriate 
• Develop manual test procedures 
• Work closely with the development team to ensure that Leica Microsystems products meet (and exceed) end-user expectations 
• Develop and maintain the system and user acceptance tests and scripts based on product requirements  
• Procure, create and manage test data required 
• Executing system and user acceptance tests and producing test logs and issue reports 
• Management of test coverage to ensure all requirements are adequately tested 
• Participate in troubleshooting and triaging of issues to generate root cause identification and resolution 

Our Expectations:  

• Bachelor of Engineering or Masters in software engineering / Informatics or equivalent. 
• Experience in device/embedded software testing 
• Experience of working in an Agile environment, testing user stories, and participating in SCRUM, sprint planning, and backlog review activities. 
• Excellent communication skills, fluent in verbal and written English. 
• Experience working with CI tools (ideally TeamCity). 

Nice to have / Ideally:  

• ISEB/ISTQB Foundation Certified tester. 
• Experience in medical device quality standards such as IEC 62304, ISO 13485, and ISO 14971. 
• 3-6 years of experience in testing medical device applications. 
• Experience working with teams across the globe. 
• Experience testing end-to-end applications that interact with hardware devices. 
• Experience in the Cybersecurity domain 

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