
QA Engineer - Mumbai
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.

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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.
- Work with product and business stakeholders to prepare test cases and plan
- Build, enhance and maintain automation frameworks for scalability, stability, and performance
- Write new automated tests for existing and new features
- Collaborate with QA Engineers to develop effective strategies and test case documentation
- Create logs to document testing phases and defects
- Report bugs and drive them to closure by collaborating with development teams
- Conduct post-release/ post-implementation testing
- Work with cross-functional teams to ensure quality throughout the software development lifecycle
What Makes You A Great Fit
- Experience with test frameworks, regression testing, and QA methodology
- Ability to document and troubleshoot errors
- Desire to be a perfectionist
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
- Play an active role in QA activities during all phases of our product development from requirements elaboration, design/development, test and deployment
- Responsible for manual and automated testing activities for a multi-tier web-based platform. This includes writing test cases based on business requirements, test data creation, creating and maintaining automated scripts to test front-end, APIs and database changes
- Creating and maintaining all QA related documentation throughout the process
- Execution of the test phase consistent with the overall project schedules
- Direct interaction/facilitation of bug resolution with engineering teams
- Work effectively within a dynamic team environment following standards and best practices and ensure the highest level of quality
- Ability to understand the technical architecture, its implementation, design patterns, data representations and infrastructure powering these systems.
- Work closely with software devs and solution architects to understand the tech stack, design and accordingly build the test frameworks, setup infra and build execution models to drive the end-to-end quality efforts of backend systems/services and client apps
- Debug test failures, read through logs, network calls and make preliminary root cause analysis of defect/bug
- Develop test plans, test cases, test design documents with good coverage and optimised testing approach
- Should be able to identify the test cases qualifying for test automation
- Use of tracking tools to log, manage, resolve and report on bugs
Candidate requirements
Must have
- At least 2-4 years of experience in manual and automated quality assurance
- Experience on automation tools like TestNG, Selenium (Grid, parallel, SauceLabs), Mocha_Chai frontend or backend test automation
- Good understanding of REST APIs and a solid experience in testing them
- Tools like Jira, Asana or similar bug tracking tool, Confluence - Wiki, Jenkins - CI tool
- Knowledge of different browsers and cross-platform operating systems
- Keen eye for design and functional UX
- Strong in writing SQL queries
- Proficiency in git
- Ability to develop or maintain applications for test automation
- Excellent written and oral communication and organisational skills with the ability to work within a growing company with increasing needs
- Proven track record of ability to handle time-critical projects
Good to have
- Experience in working in a distributed micro-service environment
- Proficiency in Python, JavaScript or any other programming language
- Hands-on experience in testing frameworks like Pytest or testing platforms like BrowserStack
- Built APIs at some point and practical knowledge on working with them
- Good understanding of CI/CD
- Ability to independently manage test environment deployments and handle issues around it
- Performed load testing of API endpoints
- Should have built an API test automation framework from scratch and maintained it
- Knowledge of cloud platforms like AWS, Azure
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / IT / Computer Applications
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Concentrate on certain areas of the game and try every possibility available
Compare new versions of game and replicate previous bugs to see if they have been fixed
Play game using different settings and options if available
Check for content, hyperlinks, landing pages, registrations, campaigns, deposits, withdrawal etc.
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Test different versions of the game including PC, Mobile (app & HTML5) versions if available
Report any error codes that may pop up and report them to bug tracking software or manually.
Proof any other documentation with game including manuals, instructions and other booklets
Understand the difference between reporting a bug and reporting a feature
Prepare test cases for manual, automation
Get the new ideas to improve product
Defining processes for test plan and several phases of testing cycle.
Planning and scheduling several milestones and tasks like alpha and beta testing.
Work closely on the deadlines of the project
Ensure the team is focusing on automation along with manual testing.
Keep raising the bar and standards of all the quality processes with every project.


