QA Lead

About Company :-

Our Client is the world’s largest media investment company and is a part of WPP. In fact, we are responsible for one in every three ads you see globally. We are currently looking for a Manager -Social to join us. As part of the largest media agency in India, you’ll have the opportunity to leverage the scale that comes with the job. You will become an integral part of this growing team and will be working with both internal teams and external parties to ensure campaign delivery objectives are met.

This team is responsible for delivering international solutions, particularly in APAC & EMEA, with some global influence. You will enjoy working in a collaborative team environment and will hold a ‘can do’ attitude with the passion to learn and grow.

At APAC, our people are our strength, which is why fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion is important to us.

Key Responsibilities:

- Lead QA team for effective testing, validation, and verification.

- Implement QA processes and standards.

- Design and execute test plans, cases, and automated scripts.

- Utilize SQL, Excel, and Python for data analysis and testing strategies.

- Validate data across platforms and reports.

- Analyze data for system improvement.

- Monitor and report key quality metrics.

- Develop and maintain process documentation.

Requirements

- Bachelor’s degree in CS, IT, Engineering, or related field.

- 3+ years of QA experience.

- Proficient in SQL, Excel, and Python.

- Strong knowledge of QA methodologies and tools.

- Experience in commerce or digital marketing preferred.

- Demonstrated leadership skills.

- Excellent problem-solving and communication.

- Proactive in task optimization.

- Systems approach to problem-solving.

- Strong attention to detail.

Location: Chennai

Ideal Candidates for this Role should have:

• Minimum 5 years experience in testing.
• The candidate should have strong experience in Rest Assured, API Testing and Java.
• Proficiency in API testing tools like Postman
• Good knowledge in automation testing using Selenium WebDriver with Java.
• The candidate should be able to write a program to retrieve/parse the Json
• Good understanding of REST API types (GET, PUT, POST, DELETE) and its working.
• Good understanding of HTTP, JSON protocol and syntax
• Good knowledge in automation testing using Selenium WebDriver with Java.
  Be able to work as an individual contributor and be an Expert at writing automated scripts and be 100% hands-on
  Should have automated 1000s of Test cases at various complexity levels and workflows
• Design, implementation, and delivery of scalable, maintainable, configurable and robust test automation frameworks.
• Ability to analyze and translate requirements and development stories into test scripts to ensure complete test coverage.
• Should have strong knowledge of continuous integration tools like Hudson and Jenkins.
• Strong understanding of testing and automation best practices.
• Proven experience in functional, regression and cross-browser testing.
• Willingness to learn new technologies, approaches and test tools

Experience Level – 3 to 5 years

Responsibilities

• Review and analyze system specifications.
• Collaborate with team to develop effective strategies and test plans.
• Execute test cases (manual or automated) and analyze results.
• Evaluate product code according to specifications.
• Create logs to document testing phases and defects.
• Report bugs and errors to development teams
• Help troubleshoot issues.
• Conduct post-release/ post-implementation testing.
• Work with cross-functional teams to ensure quality throughout the software development lifecycle.

Skillset

• Familiarity with Agile frameworks
• Ability to document and troubleshoot errors.
• Working knowledge SQL
• Excellent communication skills
• Attention to detail.
• Analytical mind and problem-solving aptitude
• Strong organizational skills

Must Have

• Experience in UFT
• Jmeter is an added advantage.
• API testing experience
• ISTQB Certification

• Responsible for Verification Strategy, Infrastructure, Planning and Execution (Manual and Automation)
• Participate in requirements, architecture, and design reviews to come up with an appropriate test strategy.
• Author Review & execute automated tests.
• Maintenance of Automation Test Cases / Frameworks
• Excellent communication skills, ability to quickly make and influence technical decisions as part of the product development, and drive open issues to a successful closure
• Drive continuous integration by development and automated execution of verification & validation tests.
• Provide estimates of detailed level project-related verification activities.
• Understand and manage integration points with other systems that interface with your applications

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or master’s degree in Software Engineering or Information Science/Technology or a related field with 4-8 years experience.
• 4+ years of experience in testing enterprise and web applications.
• Experience with object-oriented programming languages like Java.
• 4+ years of experience in working with automated tools like Selenium.
• Experience in developing different automation framework architecture, API automated tools
• Hands-on in javascript.
• Experience in writing complex SQL queries and PL/SQL knowledge.
• Familiarity with SCRUM/AGILE software development lifecycle (requirements, design, code, test)
• Ability to work with cross-functional and remote teams.

Good to Have

• Azure Cloud Dev ops experience
• Working experience on source control systems (e.g. Git)