QA Engineer

Job Description:

As a QA Associate at Binocs, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the highest quality standards for our software products. With a direct reporting line to the QA Lead, you will be involved in designing, implementing, and executing test plans to identify software issues. This role is ideal for someone with a strong technical background in engineering, experience in fintech or finance software companies, and a passion for quality assurance and detail-oriented testing.

Key Responsibilities:

• Test Plan Development: Create comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases based on product specifications.
• Quality Assurance: Execute test cases (manual or automated) and analyze results to ensure software quality.
• Issue Documentation: Document and track bugs, as well as collaborate with the development team to ensure timely resolution.
• Process Improvement: Identify, recommend, and implement improvements in testing processes to enhance efficiency and quality.
• Software Validation: Validate that product features meet requirement specifications and are free of defects.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with the product management and development teams to understand product vision and deliver software that aligns with customer and market needs.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• 2+ years of experience in quality assurance, preferably within fintech or finance software companies.
• Familiarity with 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.
• Strong knowledge of software QA metrics, including bug tracking and reporting tools.
• Excellent analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Effective communication skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

Benefits:

Joining Binocs means being part of a passionate team dedicated to transforming the loan management landscape. We offer a dynamic, innovative environment where your work directly contributes to our vision of efficient, transparent, and data-driven loan management. Our competitive compensation package, including equity, reflects our commitment to attracting and retaining top talent.

About Us:

Binocs.co empowers institutional lenders with next-generation loan management software, streamlining the entire loan lifecycle and facilitating seamless interaction among stakeholders.

Team: Binocs.co is led by a passionate team with extensive experience in financial technology, lending, AI, and software development.

Investors: Our journey is backed by renowned investors who share our vision for transforming the loan management landscape: Beenext, Arkam Ventures, Accel, Saison Capital, Blume Ventures, Premji Invest, and Better Capital.

We are looking for a detail-oriented SDET-1/Manual QA Engineer to join our QA team. You will be responsible for ensuring our software meets the highest standards of quality before reaching customers. This role involves carefully reviewing requirements and test plans, executing manual tests, and collaborating with product managers, developers to identify and resolve issues.

About Wokelo:

Wokelo is a Gen-AI powered investment research platform. It automates complex research and analysis tasks, traditionally performed by humans. Wokelo is leveraged by leading Private Equity, Investment Banks, Corporate Strategy, Venture capital, and Fortune 500 firms.

Our proprietary agentic technology and state-of-the-art large language models (LLMs) deliver rich insights and high-fidelity analysis in a matter of minutes, transforming how financial decisions are made.

We are headquartered in Seattle with a global team, supported by renowned venture funds and industry leaders who share our vision. We are growing fast and expanding across multiple segments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Review user stories and requirements for clarity, completeness, and testability.
• Execute test cases for new features, bug fixes, and regression cycles.
• Perform exploratory, usability, smoke, and sanity testing across different environments.
• Perform add hoc data quality checks and regular monitoring
• Log defects with detailed reproduction steps, screenshots, and impact assessment.
• Collaborate with developers and product managers during defect triage to ensure timely fixes.
• Support release testing and assist with UAT (User Acceptance Testing).
• Maintain organized test documentation and ensure traceability.
• Perform add hoc data quality checks and regular monitoring tasks.

Skills & Qualifications:

• 1–3 years of manual QA or software testing experience in SaaS/Product companies.
• Familiarity with QA processes, SDLC, and defect life cycle.
• Exposure to test management or bug tracking tools (e.g., JIRA, TestRail, Zephyr).
• Ability to identify gaps in test coverage and propose improvements.
• Strong attention to detail.

What We Offer?

• Be part of a fast-growing startup shaping the future of AI-powered insights.
• Work with a passionate, collaborative, and high-performance team.
• Opportunity to work at the frontier of GenAI, data, and product strategy.
• Full health coverage, flexible time-off, and remote work culture.

Minimum Qualifications:

• MS or BS in Computer Science or a related subject.
• At least five (5+) years of web application testing and automation experience.
• Taking complete ownership of product testing efforts.
• Proficiency in Java/ Python or any other Object-Oriented Language.
• Experience of Selenium & WebServices or REST API testing or backend testing
• Ability to design and develop test automation frameworks from scratch
• Experience in CI/ CD setup preferably with Jenkin
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills
• Expert in methodically developing use-cases-
• Expert at writing automation test cases using Selenium.
• Expert at testing the web application for both functionality and performance.
• Understands what world-class quality for SAAS Products 
• Expert at communicating the QA results with the engineering teams
• Expert at increasing visibility for blocker/critical issues.

• Helps Test Lead to prepare the Test Plan and coordinate with Test Engineers during Testing Phase
• Performs Bug Analysis, understands the client requirement and help Test engineer to prepare the test cases
• Ability to multi-task/handle several projects effectively and deliver within timeline
• Peer Reviews the test cases, understands the Test Plan and write Automation test cases
• Able to write Scripts in languages like Java, Ruby, Python, etc.,
• Able to review the Scripts written, able to run the Maintenance / New Scripts and identify the issues
• Knowledge on automation test reports (TestNG, Allure, JUnit reports etc)
• Define onboarding documents for technology and domain for the teams
• Train/Mentor and evaluate juniors on testing specializations
• Exihitbit strong expertise in one of Load Testing - Jmeter (or similar tools) or Api Testing - Rest client/postman or DB testing
• Perform cross Browser / device compatibility testing using automation
• Understand and contribute to sprint release cycle process, ensure 100% test coverage and follow JIRA hygiene
• Besides the job specific responsibilities strictly adheres to the policies and procedures of the organization

• Excellent communication (verbal and written) - Articulates clearly, concisely  and with context at all times, High confidence and assertiveness skills
• Has a cordial work relationship with peers and manager
• Speaks his/her mind even during challenging situations, Proactively seeks help /assistance when in need
• Ability to Develop self and others - Takes feedback positively and works on it seriously, Is not afraid of making mistakes as part of learning
• Open to working across projects and technologies, Good analytical and logical skills
• Understands requirements quickly and accurately
• Proactively thinks through the solution and seeks clarification before coding
• Explores the root causes of problems before taking action
• Quickly learns the latest developments in technology and is able to apply it to the projects
• Good Interpersonal Skills - Builds good working relationship with team members and customer stakeholders (Product owners and Scrum master etc)
• As a QA person - Show extreme attention to details and nuances

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What you must have :

• Prior experience in quality assurance role
• Working knowledge of SQL
• Experience in test cases design / development, execution and defect reporting
• Excellent analysis and troubleshooting skills
• Familiarity with Agile frameworks, regression testing, load time testing, security testing is a plus    

About Typito 

Responsibilities:

• Become the gate-keeper for Product Quality that we offer our customers and uphold the high standard of customer happiness we've achieved so far - https://www.g2.com/products/typito/reviews
• Work closely with engineers and product managers in rolling out new features and enhancements across Typito.
• Own and manage an exhaustive list of test-cases as part of the product development and document iterations of testing we do
• Develop an understanding of the Typito product and document use-case scenarios
• Own efforts on Functional, Regression, UI testing for Web and Mobile
• Participate in product feature rollouts and suggest useful feature additions on the app and recommend improvements in Typito to enhance user experience
• Be an advocate of app performance and lead initiatives on this front.

Requirements:

• Experience - At least 2 years experience being part of a QA team with defined responsibilities that gave you exposure to efficient testing and deployment processes.
• Impeccable communication skills - You'll be collaborating with multiple teams, having the ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical people is necessary.
• Critical thinking skills - You know how to think from a customer's perspective throughout the entire development cycle #empathy. You should be able to create lots of "What If" scenarios and make sure the app is battle-tested to handle those scenarios.
• Quick learner - Typito app is changing at a rapid pace, there is no single way to handle issues that come up. You must adapt quickly to new tools and techniques that keep improving your own workflow.
• Collaboration skills - As mentioned above, you'll be collaborating with developers and product managers, alike. It's important that you understand how to convey important issues to other people, and to listen well. We believe in the power of red-flagging and we expect the QA function to help us get upto speed on challenges faced by our customers.
• Automation testing skills is a strong plus as we would be experimenting with automation suites that can make our QA function more robust and efficient.

1. Development and Test Automation experience through Test Driven Development (TDD)
2. Establishing and executing Automated testing strategy for mobile apps with Tools like Perfecto Mobile/Appium or Web Driver/Selenium, TestNG and continuous integration tools like Jenkins, Git, Stampede etc.
3. Sound knowledge in JAVA is must have
4. Experience in Mobile AppDev and Test management tool (JIRA, qTest) and
5. Monitoring/Troubleshooting Tools Splunk, DynaTrace, SOAP UI 

1.  2+ of experience in producing test plans and creating test UI scripts/cases
2. Good experience of the management of all or part of the Mobile AppDev and UI Test execution phase in projects
3. Work in Agile methodology with TDD
4. Experience in API and Database Automated Testing
5.  Hands on experience of iOS (Objective C/Swift) and Android (Kotlin) technologies
6. Hands on experience in developing test artifacts and processes. Should have done test reporting with good clarity and no ambiguity
7. Experienced working in an onshore/offshore environment with flexible and adaptable working style to work with aggressive project schedules
8. Good communication and interpersonal skills
9. Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office, Excel, PowerPoint.