QA Lead

What will I be doing? 👩💻👨💻

1. You will be owning features through inception, design feedback, implementation, and launch. This will include building test plans for new features and improvising on existing test plans for feature updates and customer feedback.
2. You will collaborate with Product Designers, Product Managers, Backend Engineers, Data Engineers, and Customer Support
3. You will identify areas for automation and writing automated tests to ensure repeatability, coverage, reliability, and catching regressions.

 

What do I need? 🤓

1. Strong quality sense and experience working closely with web/mobile development teams
2. Excellent communication skills and passion for tough technical problems
3. Attention to detail and voice of customer experience
4. Experience automating end to end UI tests for mobile and web apps
5. Experience in championing customer feedback post-launch and bringing it to the attention of relevant teams
6. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience

 

Brownie points 🍰

1. Understanding of the importance of test plans and how to approach writing informative bug reports

Feel free to apply even if you feel unsure about whether you meet every single requirement in this posting. As long as you're a quick learner, and are excited about changing the status quo for tech recruitment, we're happy to support you as you come up to speed with our tech stack.

About Us:
Developed in formal collaboration with the University of Cambridge in May 2000, HeyMath! is an Ed-Tech company whose mission is to Raise the Game in Maths for school systems around the world. We do this using technology to deliver engaging teaching methodologies and personalised learning paths for students. HeyMath! has been successfully adopted by CBSE schools since 2004, with positive outcomes for the entire ecosystem.
Check us out at http://www.heymath.com/" target="_blank">www.heymath.com
We plan to work mainly from home in 2022 and the virtual office atmosphere is collegiate, informal and friendly, with small high-impact teams making a difference to customers.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Automation Testing and Devops Specialist:
Automation Testing:
Experience in automated software testing Significant knowledge of testing tools (JMeter, Selenium)
Demonstrated process based approach to IT Service Delivery e.g. ITIL Ensuring that automated test scripts are created, maintained and executed to meet software release deliverables and project testing requirements
Ensuring that load test scripts are created, maintained and executed to provide consistent baselines and measurement of the performance of applications to meet software release deliverables and project testing requirements
Ensuring application and infrastructure changes are thoroughly tested and test tools are used appropriately to ensure an effective and efficient test process
Provide recommendations on suitable test tools and their maintenance to support automated and load testing needs

Job Title: QA Manager Job Location: India
Job Summary
Condé Nast is looking for a talented Software Quality Assurance Manager. In this role you will
be part of an IT organization and to provide direction and leadership on all quality matters
across the platform or domain. This is an opportunity to act as a key contributor in making sure
that work packages transition seamlessly from development into live environments Hone your
knowledge of quality best practices and collaboration and stakeholder management skills
Objectives of the Role
● Lead a global team of QE engineers who are responsible for ensuring E2E(end to end) quality
of our products
● Provide high direction for test teams delivering a clear and consistent vision
● Develop a roadmap for building needed test expertise. Establish and evolve formal QA
processes
● Define quality and automation KPI goals for the team and drive success towards achieving
them.
● To recommend, implement, and monitor preventative and corrective actions to ensure that
quality assurance standards are achieved
● Participate in brainstorming sessions and cross-departmental meetings to ensure collaborating
and cohesion
● Oversee all aspects of quality assurance including establishing metrics, implementing best
practices, and developing new tools and processes to ensure quality goals are met
● Act as a key point of contact for all QA aspects of releases, providing QA services and
coordinating QA resources internally and externally
● Review test strategies and test plans and ensure coverage for functional, performance and
scalability aspects are covered and tested
● Working cross functionally with Product and Engineering to ensure smooth delivery of product
that are on time, feature rich and with high quality
● Present QA status of testing with state-of-the-art dashboards and highlight key blockers and
where help is needed
● Ensure automated scripts are produced for E2E testing scenarios, including performance and
scale testing
● Review user found defects and continue to enhance and improve testing methodology and fill
gaps in testing as needed
● Communicate product status, key issues, and insights to key constituents across the
organization, including the executive team.
● Develop process for manual and automated testing strategy for business applications, web
applications and BI solutions.
● Experience in establishing testing strategy for dealing with quarterly releases by business
applications
Required Skills
● 12 + years’ experience in Product Quality testing role and 2-3 yrs in Management position
● Seasoned QA Manager with track record of delivering high quality products in a fast paced
environment
● Must have prior experience in building QA / Data Validation framework in bigdata for various
BU's
● Experience in "closing the loop" and "continuous improvement" of QA strategies based on
learnings from field issues
● Experience in business applications, web application, Business Intelligence applications
● Hands-on QA experience including testing automation. Deep knowledge of automation best
practices and industry trends.
● Good to have knowledge on One or more Test automation tools like xUnit , Selenium, Jmeter ,
Ranorex etc.
● Experience in automation testing using Selenium Webdriver, Testing Frameworks like TestNG
and NUnit.
● Strong proficiency in SQL coding (T-SQL or PL-SQL)
● Familiarity with data warehousing practices, ETL processing and denormalized data structures.
● Background in programming and testing across platforms is a plus
● Proficient with Bigdata concepts and/or tools is a plus (Hadoop, Hive, Spark).
● Strong analytical and reasoning skills
● Strong verbal, written communication skills and strong interpersonal skills.
About Condé Nast
CONDÉ NAST INDIA (DATA)
Over the years, Condé Nast successfully expanded and diversified into digital, TV, and social
platforms - in other words, a staggering amount of user data. Condé Nast made the right move
to invest heavily in understanding this data and formed a whole new Data team entirely
dedicated to data processing, engineering, analytics, and visualization. This team helps drive
engagement, fuel process innovation, further content enrichment, and increase market
revenue. The Data team aimed to create a company culture where data was the common
language and facilitate an environment where insights shared in real-time could improve
performance.
The Global Data team operates out of Los Angeles, New York, Chennai, and London. The team
at Condé Nast Chennai works extensively with data to amplify its brands' digital capabilities and
boost online revenue. We are broadly divided into four groups, Data Intelligence, Data
Engineering, Data Science, and Operations (including Product and Marketing Ops, Client
Services) along with Data Strategy and monetization. The teams built capabilities and products
to create data-driven solutions for better audience engagement.
What we look forward to:
We want to welcome bright, new minds into our midst and work together to create diverse
forms of self-expression. At Condé Nast, we encourage the imaginative and celebrate the
extraordinary. We are a media company for the future, with a remarkable past. We are Condé
Nast, and It Starts Here.

Role and Responsibilities:

1. Designing and developing test automation scripts for a web application (Angular) using test automation guidelines.
2. Performance, Security, Penetration, Vulnerability testing.
3. Build tools and frameworks to aid continuous delivery, deployment, and debugging.
4. Supporting the development team and software engineers during the development and testing phase.
5. Prepare defect reports and report test progress.

Qualifications and Requirements:

1. Experience in Automation Testing with Cypress, JavaScript, Typescript, or similar end-to-end testing tools.
2. Experience with Regression, Smoke testing, API, and Backend testing.
3. Experience with non-functional testing, performance, vulnerability testing.
4. Excellent knowledge in testing skills (design test plan and test strategy, writing and executing test cases, opening bugs, verifying bugs, etc).
5. A team player, fast learner with good interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.

Good understanding of testing methodologies and concepts.

Understand requirements and write test cases/test scenario and execute them.

Create, execute, maintain comprehensive test scenarios for manual testing.

Perform various types of testing like functionality testing, content testing, Ul testing, sanity testing and browser compatibility.

Regression testing

Should have 6m - 1 year of working experience in Selenium Webdriver

Analyse failed tests and manage defects using the bug reporting tool.

Expertise in Defect Management and test management tools.

Excellent communication skills.

Details

• Location – Pune
• Reporting to – Sr. QA Manager
• Working closely with Product Manager and CTO

 

Educational Background:

• Engineering Graduate

 

Professional Experience:

• 5-8 Years of QA experience

 

Tech Skills:

• Understanding of basic testing principles – Black Box and White Box Testing
• Document and execute test cases for Black and White box testing.
• Execute testing tasks and report status and escalating issues as appropriate.
• Knowledge of testing with multiple browsers – IE, FF and Chrome
• Document defects and ensure verification of resolutions
• Work collaboratively with the development team during all stages of projects to provide in process testing results.

• Knowledge of manual testing
• Knowledge of JavaScript and VBScript
• Exposure to automated testing tools like Selenium, WaitiN, JMeter
• Basic SQL knowledge – writing SELECT queries, INSERT and UPDATE statements etc.

 

Other Skills:

• Good listener
• Confident approach
• Strong problem-solving skill
• Highly proficient with MS Office
• Ability to structure processes and lay down the foundation for a department

 

Personality and attitude traits:

• Passionate about work – We like people who like to work, and want their work to mean something
• Self-starter and motivator – We do not believe in monitoring or tracking team members
• Eager and quick to learn – If you are not excited to learn new things, then tech companies are not for you
• Individual contributor – We are a small team, and everyone has hands on contribution
• Start-up savvy

 

 

Job Description: • Creation of Automated scripts through Selenium (Technology: Java) • Maintainance of scripts with change in OS and browser. Selenium with Java Java Debugging skills Appium JMeter

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Would you like to help us innovate on behalf of Digital and Device customers? Work hard. Have fun. Make history. Amazon is the earth’s most customer centric company. Along with being a retail company, it has a special focus on innovative technology and high-profile devices. We have worked to produce best-selling tablets with breakthrough hardware technology, e-readers that have revolutionized reading, Fire TV, a tiny yet powerful way to watch the best movies and TV shows in the comfort of your living room and Echo, our latest cutting edge product. The Device, Digital & Alexa Support (aka. D2AS) organization goal is to provide the best customer experience and support for our devices, digital content & Alexa applications. The D2AS Technology team owns critical applications and backend services along with test solutions to achieve this. The team is looking for a Software Development Engineer in Test. 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