QA Engineer

The key responsibilities are to test all aspects of the Product and to develop test plans and execute them. You will not only be responsible to automate test cases to ensure rapid turnaround during regression but would also be working on workflow automation using Selenium, Powershell, AutoIT and UNIX Shell Scripting.

Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

 

• Ensure that the automation framework that we build is on par or better than industry standards.
• Design, document, execute, and maintain test plans, scenarios, use cases, scripts, and procedures.
• Ensure full lifecycle testing including integration, regression, and stress tests.
• Provide input on functional requirements to avoid potential design pitfalls
• Collaborate with software developers on testing strategy and defect resolution.
• Work with the Services team as a SME on areas where appropriate.
• Take initiative for software quality process efficiency and improvements.Build functional test frameworks (UI and API) that encompasses various customer use cases for SaaS based cloud environments.
• Testing all aspects of the Product like function/system/regression etc.
• Understand flow of code and how it interacts with different components
• Setting up, maintaining, and performing test automation frameworks on multiple application platforms, such as Mobile, and Web, and building test scenarios and acceptance tests by collaborating with functional test team and development team
• Communicate test progress, test results, and other relevant information to project stakeholders and Management.
• Analyze complex situations/problems and deliver logical and efficient automated solutions.
• Passionate about performance, scalability and reliability of all systems and can elaborate on the pros and cons of methodologies, tools and frameworks.
• Guides and mentors the junior Engineering associates technically on all aspects of work
• Needs to have a good exposure in BDD/TDD
• Good knowledge in CI/CD tools
• Build a team of Automation SMEs
• Research the latest in tools and methodologies, thus ensuring continuous improvement by upgrading the existing processes
• Triage issues.

II Experience:

• Nature of Experience: Strong knowledge of system testing best practices and methodologies.
• Length of Experience: 8 - 12 years.

 

III Skill Set & Personality Traits required:

• Has around 10 to 12 years of experience in test automation with sound knowledge of product development and testing.
• Well versed in all Automation tools.
• Has a sound background of Python/Java development and extensive experience in Selenium, Jmeter, Protractor, UFT, etc. standard automation tools in the industry.
• Comfortable working in an automated, fast-paced environment.
• A self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong professionally – credible with integrity.
• Good communication & interpersonal skills.
• Organizational skills and ability to manage deadlines.
• Proven experience in Demonstrated innovation in developing solutions for complex scenarios.

Job description :

Lead QA Engineer - Automation:

 

We are looking for a candidate who will be an agent of change and who will drive and execute based on our Quality and Reliability Transformation Roadmap. He/She will be responsible for testing Education Service domains across platforms, automation of functional/regression and RFB (sanity) service test suites, Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery pipeline and Shift Left methodologies. We will also expect the candidate to take ownership of a functional domain and play a hands-on role in the execution of testing for projects in this area.

The candidate should have extensive experience in testing, testing automation, testing leadership and software development. The candidate should be proficient in-service automation testing tools like Eclipse, IDNE, Jenkins, GIT hub and Chatbot testing like Botium. The candidate should have at least 7+ years of service testing or software development experience.

The candidate should be flexible, highly adaptable and an excellent team player. The candidate is expected to work with Agile teams that consist of test analysts, developers, automation engineers and other stake holders. The candidate should expect to work in a global virtual team, sometimes across multiple time zones. The candidate may be assigned to more than one role or project at a time.  

Lead QA Engineer - Automation Responsibilities:

• Create automation plan and delivery roadmaps
• Develop test automation solutions for applications across different platforms
• Adhere to existing standards; provide suggestion to improve and set new standards
• Participate in technical discussions with engineering teams to understand application architecture and API model
• Collaborate with QA Engineers and Software Developers to identify test automation scope and priorities
• Configure, maintain, and operate service test automation tools and frameworks
• Capture requirements and test cases, understand application features, analyse requirements and develop test automation solution with a view of the end-to-end application flow
• Design and create robust automated test scripts to address business and technical use cases
• Integrate test automation scripts with Continuous Integration and Delivery pipeline
• Communicate progress to the senior leadership on a regular basis
• Should have Education Service domain and application knowledge

 

Lead QA Engineer - Automation Requirements: 

A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

• 7-11 years’ experience working as a Service Test Automation Engineer
• Experience in collaborating effectively across a variety of IT and business groups, across regions, roles, and able to interact effectively with all levels
• Proven record of execution of QA strategy and unification of QA processes across organization
• Must have hands-on experience with Selenium automation using Java
• Must have experience in Chatbot testing like Botium.
• Working knowledge of any Relational Database and DB Queries.
• Working knowledge of tool and technologies like Jenkins, GIT, JIRA and ALM
• Well versed with approaches like BDD, Keyword Driven, Data Driven and hybrid Driven test automation.
• Good to have understanding of model-based testing.
• Understanding of Agile/Waterfall development process and is comfortable diving into the technical architecture of complex and highly scalable solutions
• Excellent leadership, communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills. Experience in presenting to diverse audiences and conducting education and training.
• Have deep experience in defining and developing the service test automation framework.
• Development background is a major plus.
• knowledge of Rest, SOAP, MQ and microservices. (Nice to Have)

 

 

Responsibilities:

• Identifying the different bugs in new & existing product lines by following the company's processes.
• Isolating bugs i.e. finding steps to reproduce for identified bugs.
• Compiling the bugs in a database or in given documents with a precise description of the encountered issues so they can be easily identified and reproduced.
• Respecting the planning and the deadlines.
• Follow-up of the versions from scratch to end of project.
• Maintain and develop the existing Automation suites (API/UI)

What we're looking for?

• At least 2 year of experience in software testing
• Ability to work and coordinate with the team on projects
• Knowledge and hands on experience in QA methodologies and tools is preferred
• Strong analytical and observation skills
• Enthusiastic and highly organised
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Comfortable with at least one of Java, Javascript, Ruby
• Worked on UI automation using Selenium Webdriver. Preferably WebdriverIO/Protractor/Puppeteer
• Familiar with API automation using either Postman/Restassured
• Working knowledge of Jmeter or similar Performance testing tool is a plus

STLC,JIRA,GIT,Manual Functional Testing,Manual Testing,Regression Testing,Smoke Testing,JMeter,Selenium Webdriver,Selenium,Selenium Testing,Automation Testing
• Strong understanding of Test methodologies and STLC concepts
• Working experienced of AGILE / Scrum concepts
• Experience creating testing documents - Test Plan / Test Cases, Test Data sheet, Test Reports
• Working knowledge of SQL or Oracle
• Worked in environment with CI / CD experience or automated release management systems.
• Good exposure of system testing, smoke, integration, regression testing & UAT etc.
• Hands-on with any of QA test management tools like JIRA / Bugzilla etc.
• Hands on significant experience of Selenium Automation tool as well as familiarity with any major TDD, BDD frame work
• Knowledge of any programming language like Java/C#
• Experience working with API, JSON, XML and API testing tools like PostMan, Fiddler, CURL, etc.
• Experience in Git

 Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related field or similar experience

- 5+ years' experience in automation testing development

- Experience in architecting, implementing solutions/frameworks for front end

- Hands on experience with implementing Continuous Integration and build automation systems such as Jenkins/ Bamboo/ Octopus etc.

- Experience with Source Code Management Tools (e.g., Git, TFS, RTC)

- Experience using test management tools

- Extensive experience with UI Automation tools, preferably Selenium Web driver and Appium with Java

- Proficiency with one or more of the following programming languages/frameworks: Java, Python, .NET/Java frameworks

Preferred Job Requirements:

Job Description :

 

- Bachelor's Degree in computer science or information technology

- Experience using Soap UI/ Rest Assured/Postman.

- Experience in Core Java

- Good Knowledge of cloud platforms -Microsoft Azure/AWS

- Understanding of Non-Functional Testing

- Working experience with TDD/BDD approaches and relevant tools such as Cucumber

About The Company

SCIGON was founded in 2008 by technology practitioners with a people-focused mindset. We continually strive to build on a track record of success, establishing new avenues for capabilities and growth. Based in Chicago, SCIGON offers a complete suite of offerings to meet enterprise and public sector customer technical, engineering and product needs. SCIGON's professionals advance client initiatives with a high degree of quality and efficiency. SCIGON has received broad recognition nationally and has been recognized through industry awards, media coverage, and several case studies Our goal is to provide fresh and effective ideas for mutual success.

Our Mission: SCIGON is committed to providing an innovative approach and solutions that enable our clients and partners to succeed. While knowledge, experience and technology provide the tools with which we reach these aims, we place the most value on relationships. We focus on understanding customer and partner needs, bring a collaborative approach to the discussion, and work hand-in-hand to identify effective strategies that intersect outcomes with the business drivers that underpin needs. Our Vision : Understanding client and partner needs, and to working as a team to meet mutual objectives. Our company culture is also centered on a commitment to sustainability, as well as social and economic responsibility

Frequently Asked Questions :

Why work for us?

It would be a Challenging, grounds up a promising circumstance for you. You get an opportunity to chip away at great new technologies alongside stunning specialists with strong financial strength.

Also, we have some Employee Value Propositions :

- An outstanding work culture :

- Remote work :

- Work life balance :

Provident fund :

- Professional growth through our Learning and development:

• Designing, developing, coding, testing and debugging software framework/product
• Coordinate automation testing with the Engineering team members in an Agile workflow
• Flexible to work on automation as well as development
• Create accurate and detailed bug reports when issues are identified
• Mentor and assist other Engineering team members in automation standards

 

Do you have the right skills?

 

• 2+ years of professional experience within Automation/Development
• Scripting experience in Java or Python
• Hands on experience with the Rest API testing is necessary
• Basic understanding of networking / Linux process debugging tools
• Excellent communication and analytical skills, with experience working with otherdevelopers towards a common goal
• Great communication: Provides status without prompt, brings up blockers (coding/testing) immediately, speaks up in standup / planning
• Ability to remove some roadblocks

• Understand functional and non-functional testing requirements (for UI, API, and Database) for web, mobile, and mobile web applications.
• Understand and document test automation requirements for functional and non-functional (including load, stress, and performance) testing
• Develop frameworks to test UI, API services, and databases
• Develop and execute automated test scripts using a pre-defined framework
• Participate in test automation code reviews
• Good understanding of testing platforms such as TestNG and automation tools or help develop custom tools used for integration testing purposes
• Work with build automation tools such as Maven
• Design, implementation, and execution of load, performance, volume, and scalability tests using industry-standard tools
• Identifying performance bottlenecks and making recommendations for performance tuning
• Raise PR and merge code into local and master branches, as required
• Collaborates with other quality and development engineers to build, evolve, and maintain a scalable continuous build and deployment pipeline
• Troubleshooting Jenkins, test failures, and build configurations
• Work closely with members of the development team to solve any issues identified. This includes deploying diggable build in test environments, understanding and debugging application code is required to resolve any blockers.

Requirements

• Programming language (one or more) - Java, Python, JavaScript
• Unit testing - Junit
• API or UI test automation tools and frameworks - Selenium, Appium, Rest Assured, Postman, SoapUI, Karate, Robot
• Performance testing tool - JMeter
• Database - SQL
• Configuration management - GIT
• Build management - Maven
• Continuous Integration - Jenkins

 

• Assessment of product requirements
• Definition of test strategy, test methods, acceptance criteria, etc.
• Development of automated tests
• Development of new test cases and conversion of manual test cases into reliable and repeatable automated tests
• Execution of the SW test using automated tools
• Support debugging and improvement of simulation/testing environment
• Development of manual test.
• 4+ years relevant working experience with Coded UI Test or equivalent automated testing using C#
• Execution of manual test on HW / final system
• Preparation of test protocols/test reports and reporting of identified issues
• Investigation of identified issues (root cause analysis, reproducibility steps, etc.)
• Collaboration with other functions (development, system engineering, QA) to define the appropriate approach for the above-mentioned activities
• Documentation on relevant tools
• Supporting definition of the project test strategy, project plan, and metrics
• Supporting the definition of process improvement, tools, and laboratory management
• Definition and improvement of test techniques
• Support the Manager for team activities and mentoring other team members
• Facilitate discussion within the team and with other departments

Required Skills

• Technical experience in software testing
• Experience in programming in C# and Visual Studio
• Professional experience with Agile methodologies
• Understanding of API Testing and automated testing frameworks
• Experience in testing on complex hardware
• Ability to derive test cases from requirements
• Ability to work independently while staying aligned with the functional team
• Effective written and spoken communication skills in English
• Bachelor’s or Master´s degree in a related field
• Clinical Chemistry background is a plus
• Preferred experience with the regulated environment (e.g. medical devices)
• Ability to drive activities, facilitate discussions and improve processes
• Ability to work with multi-functional and remote teams
• Attention to detail and result-oriented
• Ability to work independently.