QA Lead

JOB TITLE: Senior Automation Test Engineer

LOCATION: Remote/Hybrid.

A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE ROLE:

A Senior Automation Test Engineer with 4-5 years of experience is responsible for testing software applications to ensure they meet specified requirements and quality standards.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:

• Build automated scripts for driving application tests.
• Record and maintain source control of automation scripts.
• Participate in review of project requirements to understand test objectives, to provide input on testability of requirements and estimation for the testing activities.
• Provide the testing approach, develop the automation test strategy, testing framework for automation testing projects..
• Design the test case, writing the automation scripts.
• Collaborative with project team to understand project objectives, gather automation requirements, design automated tests, and troubleshoot issues.
• Contribute to the building of continuous Integration (CI) environment and ongoing Process improvement activities.
• Participate in project meetings to discuss and agree on automation testing approach.
• Do manual testing when the project needed.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO BE GREAT IN THIS ROLE:

• ISTQB Certificate or equivalence.
• Experience in working with the CI/CD processes and tools (Jenkins, Git, or equivalent)
• Experience in Automated API Testing, Performance Testing and Security Testing
• Excellent problem solving skills and attention to detail.

SOFT SKILLS:

• Collaboration - Ability to work in teams across the world
• Adaptability - situations are unexpected, need to be quick to adapt
• Open mindedness - Expect to see things outside the ordinary

LIFE AT FOUNTANE:

• Fountane offers an environment where all members are supported, challenged, recognized & given opportunities to grow to their fullest potential.
• Competitive pay
• Health insurance to spouse, kids and parents.
• PF/ESI or equivalent
• Individual/team bonuses
• Employee stock ownership plan
• Fun/challenging variety of projects/industries
• Flexible workplace policy - remote/physical
• Flat organization - no micromanagement
• Individual contribution - set your own deadlines
• Above all - culture that helps you grow exponentially!

 Qualifications - No bachelors degree required. Good communication skills are must!

A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE COMPANY:

Established in 2017, Fountane Inc is one part a Digital Product Studio that specializes in building superior product experiences, and one part Ventures Lab incubating and investing in new competitive technology businesses from scratch. Thus far, we’ve created half a dozen multi million valuation companies in the US, and a handful of sister ventures for large corporations including Target, US Ventures, Imprint Engine.We’re a team of 80 strong from around the world that are radically open minded and believes in excellence, respecting one another and pushing our boundaries to furthest its ever been.

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

This position is for a tester with strong coding skills who likes challenges - someone who is constantly striving for excellence in software test automation.

Responsibilities include:

• Develop automated test cases on a day-to-day basis
• Gather and prioritize user requirements, feed these requirements into overall Automation Framework requirements and test plans
• Train team members on tool use and test automation tools, practices, techniques and best practices
• Communicate cross-functionally throughout the engineering organization
• Continuously monitor and boost test coverage across the product

Minimum Job Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or better in CS or related field, with 3+ years experience in software test.
• Exposure to best practices in SQA including code reviews, debugging, troubleshooting and CI processes
• Experience in backend Testing using Java, API-Testing,Rest assured ,and Performance testing using Jmeter
• Excellent communications and technical presentation skills
• Initiative to research and build solutions to tough problems in domains like Flash, OpenGL, WebGL where off-the-shelf automation tools might not be available
• Some experience/comfort with working in a Linux/Unix environment
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, troubleshooting skills.

Preferred (Bonus) Qualifications:

• Knowledge of current build and test automation tools and processes, such as JUnit/TestNG, Maven, Jenkins, Mockito, JBehave, Git, etc
• Experience with whitebox testing, code reviews, SDK testing
• Experience with performance testing, stress testing, and advanced aspects of system testing automation.
• Knowledge of at least one scripting language (Python, Bash, Ruby or comparable).

• Test current products and identifying deficiencies
• Suggest solutions to identified product problems 
• Investigate product quality in order to make improvements to achieve better customer satisfaction
• Plan, create and manage the overall Quality Planning strategy
• Collaborate with the Product Development team to ensure consistent project execution
• Identify quality assurance process bottleneck and suggest actions for improvement 
• Oversee continuous improvement projects 
• Collect quality data 
• Identify key KPIs for product quality

• 2-4  years of experience, with at least 1-2 years of experience in testing Web Applications/Services, UI testing.
• Good exposure to Non-functional tests strategies like Load, Perf and Chaos.
• Good understanding of testing principles: UI and Usability testing, Stress testing, Functional/Regression testing, Code coverage, TDD/BDD, UAT.
• Experience in deploying solutions into AWS is a major plus.
• Good team player, having effective and professional oral and written communication skills.