Quality Analyst

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!

MCS is seeking a meticulous and detail-oriented Quality Analyst to join our team. As a Quality Analyst, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the highest standards of quality and efficiency in our products or services. Your primary responsibility will be to assess and evaluate processes, identify areas for improvement, and develop strategies to enhance quality across all aspects of our organization.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement quality assurance standards, procedures, and methodologies to ensure consistency and excellence in our products, services, or processes.
• Conduct comprehensive evaluations and audits of products, services, or processes to identify deviations, defects, or areas of improvement.
• Maintain detailed records of quality assessments, findings, and recommendations.
• Create and update quality documentation, including standard operating procedures.
• Investigate the root causes of quality issues and collaborate with relevant teams to implement corrective and preventive actions.
• Provide guidance and training to teams and employees on quality standards, best practices, and continuous improvement methodologies.
• Establish feedback mechanisms and channels for employees and customers to report quality-related concerns or suggestions for improvement.
• Prepare and deliver regular reports on quality performance, highlighting areas of success and areas requiring attention.
• Ensure that our processes and products adhere to relevant industry standards, regulations, and compliance requirements
• Drive a culture of continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to streamline processes and enhance quality.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or Master's degree in a relevant field (Quality Management, Business, Engineering, etc.)
• Proven experience in quality assurance or quality control, preferably in a similar industry.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Proficiency in quality management tools and methodologies (e.g., Six Sigma, Lean, ISO standards).
• Excellent communication skills.
• Attention to detail and a commitment to precision.
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.
• Familiarity with quality management software and tools.

If you have a keen eye for detail, a passion for process improvement, and the ability to drive positive change, we invite you to apply. This role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on our organization's quality standards and contribute to our ongoing success. Apply today to be a part of our quality-driven team!

Job Description:

• Works with team to drive improvements in code quality via manual testing
• Works to develop and execute QA strategies to meet and exceed corporate quality goals
• Delivers on capabilities for the product suite automation strategy
• Develops manual and automated test cases and configurations needed to meet testing of business requirements
• Executes test cases/scripts to ensure delivery of quality software applications, including Systems Integration, Regression, and Performance Testing 
• Generates test data to support the requirements and test case for various test phases
• Building and maintenance of quality standards as well as enforcing technical and testing standards
• Creates logs to document testing phases and defects
• Monitors and tracks resolution of defects and takes part in daily standup 
• Designs, monitors, and analyzes quality assurance metrics such as defect, defect counts, test results, and test status
• Identifies opportunities to adopt innovative testing technologies and techniques
• Looks beyond the obvious for continuous improvement opportunities

Qualification and Experience Requirements: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical disciplines, or equivalent work experience required
• 3+ years of experience in Technology, with an emphasis on QA, and proven ability in writing test cases, running functional or performance tests, and managing defects
• Solid experience in test-driven development, unit testing, functional testing, system integration testing, regression testing
• Must have proven analytical and problem-solving skills to help validate, verify, communicate & report software application issues
• Proficiency in written and spoken English
• Solid knowledge of QA methodologies, SDLC and STLC
• Working knowledge of test management software like Jira
• Strong in analytical skills and should be a team player
• Competent in executing test cases and passionate about quality
• Ability to handle conflict effectively

As a software tester, you'll be involved in the quality assurance stage of software development and deployment. You'll conduct automated and manual tests to ensure the software created by developers is fit for purpose and any bugs or issues are removed within a product before it gets deployed to everyday users. Your role is integral to the creation of software systems and technical products. You'll need to be familiar, or become familiar with, programming and using coding languages.

Responsibilities:

• Extensively working on Manual Testing/API Testing/Functional or UI Testing.
• Develop test strategies and test plans for projects.
• Participate in developing and reviewing the test policies for the organization.
• Defining the scope of testing within the context of every release and every software testing level or cycle.
• The use of resources in an effective way and managing the resources for software testing.
• Applying the appropriate test measurement and metrics for the software product and testing team.
• Designing test scenarios for software usability, running these tests, and preparing reports on the effectiveness and defects to the production team.

Requirements:

• Minimum 6 years-10 years of related work experience in API and Functionality testing preferably in the Payments domain.
• Ability to work in a high-performance environment.
• Must be a Graduate in B. E/BSC. IT/BCA or Equivalent.

• 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