QA Engineer

Job Title: SDET

Location: Chennai (Work From Office – Let’s ensure quality together!)

Experience: 1-4 years (You’ve tested software and squashed bugs like a pro!)

About the Company:

F22 Labs is a startup software studio based out of Chennai. We are the rocket fuel for other startups across the world, powering them with extremely high-quality software. We help entrepreneurs build their vision into beautiful software products (web/mobile). If you're into creating beautiful software and solving real problems, you’ll fit right in with us. Let’s make cool things happen!

Position Overview:

Are you passionate about ensuring the quality of software through meticulous testing? As a QA Tester at F22 Labs, you'll be responsible for ensuring that our mobile and web applications meet the highest standards. You’ll play an essential role in functional, regression, integration, and UAT testing, collaborating with an awesome team of developers and designers. Ready to bring your testing expertise and make sure our software runs perfectly? Let’s do this!

Key Responsibilities:

• Test Case Design: Write effective and thorough test cases to cover all functional, regression, integration, and UAT scenarios (because we leave no stone unturned!).
• Bug Reporting & Tracking: Use tools like JIRA and ClickUp to report and track defects, ensuring no bug goes unnoticed (we don’t want any sneaky bugs hanging around!).
• Requirement Analysis: Dive deep into business and functional requirements to create relevant and precise test scenarios (understanding the big picture is key).
• Manual Testing: Perform functional and non-functional manual testing on both web and mobile applications (keeping everything in top shape).
• Basic Automation Exposure: Contribute to automation testing tasks, supporting the development of automation scripts (a little automation goes a long way).
• SQL Testing: Use your basic SQL knowledge to validate the data integrity of our systems (let’s keep the data clean and precise).
• Collaboration: Work closely with the product and development teams to ensure smooth workflows and quality releases (teamwork makes the dream work).
• Problem-Solving: Identify, analyze, and help fix defects efficiently (problem-solving skills are your superpower).

Mandatory Skills:

• Manual Testing: Strong experience with manual testing, both functional and non-functional.
• Bug Tracking Tools: Experience using JIRA, ClickUp, or similar tools to log and track bugs.
• SQL Knowledge: Basic knowledge of SQL for database testing (because sometimes the database needs a little TLC).
• Requirement Analysis & Test Planning: Ability to analyze requirements and create test plans based on those (understanding the requirements is step one!).
• Agile & Scrum: Familiarity with Agile methodologies, working in fast-paced environments with iterative sprints.

Good to Have Skills (Bonus Points!):

• Basic Automation Knowledge: Experience with automation tools or frameworks (your first step into automation testing).
• Domain Knowledge: Experience in E-commerce and Hospitality (because understanding the domain helps you test smarter).
• Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills (because great communication leads to great collaboration).
• Problem-Solving Skills: Strong analytical thinking and the ability to uncover root causes of issues.

Why Join Us (Perks & Benefits):

• Health insurance (your well-being is our priority).
• Flexible work timings (because we all work best when we’re in our groove).
• Competitive compensation (we know your value and reward it).
• Opportunities for rapid career growth (we love growing together).
• Fun, collaborative team environment (because work is more fun when you love what you do).
• Continuous learning and development (we support you as you level up your skills).

Selection Process:

• Online Assessment
• 1-2 rounds of interviews (let’s talk about your testing skills and how you handle bugs!).

If you're looking to join a fast-paced, innovative team where quality matters and every release is a new opportunity to shine, we want you on board! Apply today and let’s build amazing software together!

What does the role look like?

We are looking for a high-energy, detail-oriented, and technically-savvy Quality Assurance Engineer (QAE). Should be an excellent individual contributor capable of understanding and driving test execution with minimal help. Who can work towards understanding application performance, functionality, and features to great depth enabling them to report issues, take ownership and drive them to closure.

What will you be doing?
 Develop and execute automated tests and test plans
 Efficiently execute test cases across all functional areas of the products(API and App)
 Review product user interface for conformity to design guidelines
 Find, isolate, document, regress, and track bugs through resolution
 Interpret and report testing results, and be a vocal proponent for quality in every phase of the development process
 Work with Engineering and product to understand the overall product requirements and technical architecture and how each feature is implemented
 Ensure the highest quality product delivery with security.
 Evaluating and integrate open source and in house developed toolsets

What will you need ?
 Bachelor/Master degree in CS or related field from a reputed college
 Experience in manual testing for Application and APIs
 Experience in automation testing using available framework.
 Strong knowledge of QA methodologies, testing frameworks and tools
 Demonstrated experience in test planning, test design, test execution and reporting.
 Excellence in technical communication with peers and non-technical partners.
 Understanding & experience with software design pattern, restful APIs and microservice architecture
 Prior experience in start-ups or health-tech will be a plus

1. Building up and leading the Testing Team to the success of project
2. Defining the scope of testing within the context of each release / delivery
3. Deploying and managing resources for testing
4. Applying the appropriate test measurements and metrics in the product and the Testing Team
5. Planning, deploying and managing the testing effort for any given engagement.

• 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

• 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

• Experience in testing web-based applications.
• Experience in developing test cases and scenarios based on PRD/BRD/Use cases.
• Experience in testing Web Services
• Logging defects/bugs in the defect management tool
• Tracking the defects and retire them with appropriate test execution
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Tools and Technologies:

• Should have strong knowledge and hands-on with SQL, Java, and Selenium
• Good/Fair knowledge of angular framework and Protractor with JavaScript/TypeScript
• Hands-on with any of the defect management tools like Jira/Bugzilla
• Knowledge of J-meter, Soap UI is a plus

Mandatory Skill Requirements:

1. Strong Fundamentals on Manual Testing.
2. Some experience on API Automation Testing .
3. Basic understanding of any of the coding languages.(During the interview one coding question will be asked)
4. Basic understanding of SQL.(During the interview one SQL question will be asked)
5. Preferred Experience ( 2-6 yrs)

Recko Inc. is looking for a QA engineer to join our kick-ass engineering team. We are looking for smart, dynamic individuals to inspect and report on the quality of products through the entire production cycle.

About Recko:

Recko was founded in 2017 to organise the world’s transactional information and provide intelligent applications to finance and product teams to make sense of the vast amount of data available. With the proliferation of digital transactions over the past two decades, Enterprises, Banks and Financial institutions are finding it difficult to keep a track on the money flowing across their systems. With the Recko Platform, businesses can build, integrate and adapt innovative and complex financial use cases within the organization and  across external payment ecosystems with agility, confidence and at scale.  . Today, customer-obsessed brands such as Deliveroo, Meesho, Grofers, Dunzo, Acommerce, etc use Recko so their finance teams can optimize resources with automation and prioritize growth over repetitive and time-consuming tasks around day-to-day operations. 

Recko is a Series A funded startup, backed by marquee investors like Vertex Ventures, Prime Venture Partners and Locus Ventures. Traditionally enterprise software is always built around functionality. We believe software is an extension of one’s capability, and it should be delightful and fun to use.

Working at Recko:

We believe that great companies are built by amazing people. At Recko, We are a group of young Engineers, Product Managers, Analysts and Business folks who are on a mission to bring consumer tech DNA to enterprise fintech applications. The current team at Recko is 60+ members strong with stellar experience across fintech, e-commerce, digital domains at companies like Flipkart, PhonePe, Ola Money, Belong, Razorpay, Grofers, Jio, Oracle etc. We are growing aggressively across verticals.

About the Role:

What are we looking for:

1. Strong understanding of Software Testing methodologies and Test design with Saas apps
2. 2+ years of experience in Manual  testing on Web using Postman, Jira or similar tools
3. Excellent communication and documentation skills with a strong attention to detail
4. Good understanding of Python / JavaScript and  Linux commands, SQL Databases
5. Good to have: Knowledge of performance and security testing, understanding of Jenkins, Kibana, Git, JMeter and hands-on experience with JUnit, Mocha (JavaScript), Any JavaScript e2e testing framework
6. Ability to interact with folks internally and externally to gather insights and handle multiple activities at once
7. Ability to think strategically and implement with excellence
8. A growth mindset and passionate about building things from the ground up, and most importantly, you should be fun to work with

As a test engineer at Recko, you will:

1. Test and prove that the software meets major architectural requirements while ensuring  the quality of the system as a whole 
2. Prove for scalability and performance of a software while running quality controls on components and final products
3. Develop and automate tests for software validation
4. Detect, investigate and troubleshoot bug and production issues
5. Analyze current technologies used within the company and develop steps and processes to improve testing procedures
6. Assist other department engineers in creating practical demonstrations of proposed solutions and demonstrating them to other members of the team
7. Gather product requirements (e.g. functionalities, speed, safety standards), 
8. Develop test plan, test scenarios and test cases and analyze the test results, detect issues and track root causes
9. Document technical issues and solutions as well as prepare file defect reports and report test progress