Quality Assurance/Software Development Engineer - Testing II

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We are looking candidates for Lucknow office,
- Review and analyze system specifications
- Collaborate with QA engineers 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
- mobile testing android and ios is must.
- automation testing on apium and selenium or jira is recomended
Note: This position is only for lucknow office, loorking for local candidates.
ROLE REQUIREMENTS:
- Experience of 5+ years working as a Quality Assurance Analyst
- Experience with test management tools such as Quality Centre, JIRA, ADO.
- Knowledge of automation tools like Selenium
- Knowledge of Non-Functional testing - Accessibility, Performance
- Educated to degree level, ideally in Computer Science
- ISEB certification in Testing (intermediate level) is advantageous
- Experience in participating in process change is advantageous
- Experience testing commercial websites in a creative and/or agency environment is advantageous
- Experience testing native iOS and Android applications is advantageous
QUALIFICATIONS & CHARACTERISTICS
- 5+ years’ industry experience.
- Analytic and positive mindset with a personable and professional approach.
- Sharp attention to detail and a passion for new technology.
- Professional written and verbal communication.
About us;
GreedyGame is looking for a Mobile App Tester to join its clan! We are looking to get an amazing testing engineer on board who has the knack for finding the quirkiest bugs. You’ll be working alongside other engineers and developers, collaborating on the various layers of the infrastructure for our platform.
JOB DETAILS:
Seniority Level: Associate Level
Industry: Marketing & Advertising
Employment Type: Full-Time
Job Functions: Engineering, Information Technology
Job Location: Bengaluru
Experience: 1+
WHAT WILL BE YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES?
- Work with our proprietary Java and Kotlin based SDK to find performance and functionality related issues.
- Working with in-house Dashboards to perform testing of UI and APIs.
- Collaborating with teams to create test documents.
- Planning and task management in congruence with the team.
WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
- Expertise on testing different QA Methodologies black box, white box and gray box for both web UIs and backends both manually and automation.
- Ability to code and maintain back-end automation frameworks written in distributed programming languages such as Python.
- Ability to automate Android applications using tools such as Appium.
- Hands-on experience on API testing and testing tools like Postman, Rest-Assured or other API testing tools.
- Experience working with Proxy tools like Charles Proxy, Fiddler.
- Excellent in test strategising, planning, estimation, execution, and reporting.
- Working knowledge of Agile scrum methodologies
- Strong debugging, problem-solving, interpersonal and troubleshooting skills.
WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU?
- An opportunity to be a part of a fast scaling start-up in the AdTech space that offers unmatched services and products.
- To work with a team of young enthusiasts who are always upbeat and self- driven to achieve bigger milestones in shorter time spans.
- A workspace that is wide open as per the open door policy at the company, located in the most happening center of Bangalore.
- A well fed stomach makes the mind work better and therefore we provide - free lunch with a wide variety on all days of the week, a stocked pantry to satiate your want for munchies , a Foosball table to burst stress and above all a great working environment.
- We believe that we grow as you grow. Once you are a part of our team, your growth also becomes essential to us and in order to make sure that happens, there is timely formal and informal feedback given
QA Engineer - Mumbai
Position Description
Key Responsibilities and Requirements
- Contributes to overall business results by making recommendations that significantly improve operational efficiency and effectiveness of Travel Industry
- Facilitate the analysis, design and programming of viable solutions to high complexity business problems according to user specifications
- Ensure that systems are functionally appropriate, technically sound and integrated
- Document and create test cases and to execute and verify those test cases as part of the overall functional testing of Information Technology products
- Contribute to test planning including API Testing
- Participate in the activities to develop and execute test to validate system functionality against specifications
- Take lead role in the testing of small to medium sized products
- Ensure that systems software is thoroughly tested
- Solid understanding of Quality Assurance methods and practices
- Deep understanding of manual and automated testing concepts
- 3 to 5 years’ experience as a QA Analyst/Engineer or similar role with a heavy focus on Automation Testing.
- Experience with high volume consumer-oriented web sites
- Experience working in an Agile Scrum environment
- Experience with formal test procedures, release management
- Experience in Travel industry experience, GDS’s - SABRE, Amadeus, and Travelport
- Ability to distill complex business needs into functional requirements
- Excellent follow-up, verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent problem-solving skills and an ability to make good decisions
- Team player with a professional attitude and learn new products
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and maintain tight schedules
- Ability to work effectively with a geographically dispersed team in India and United States
- Strong skill and experience analyzing data sets of all sizes.
Strategic and Development Responsibilities
- Communicate effectively with Executive, Marketing, Sales and Operations teams in gathering product requirements, reporting results and managing expectations.
- Willingness to work flexible and/or extended hours as necessary and travel internationally on occasion.
- Specifically participate in the following: market research, requirements gathering and documentation, architecture design, resource allocation, issue delegation, release management, project timelines, source code protection, testing/QA (use cases) and outsourcing.
- Ability to "think outside the box"
- Ability to provide accurate and timely project estimates.
Education
- Bachelor of Science in CS, MIS, or equivalent.
We're looking for a QA Engineer to help with manual testing as well as introduce automation to our processes where possible. Candidates will need to be familiar with and able to write scripts, set up automation processes, and familiarise themselves with the products we build (web and mobile apps).
- The role will also require you to document test cases with an understanding of what the product does and how the end-user might approach it.
- Understand functional and non-functional testing requirements of web and mobile applications.
- Document functional testing scenarios and cases, for manual testing of API functionality using Postman and manual testing of User Interface elements (web, mobile, and mobile web)
- Identify or create data for testing
- Execute test cases and record status
- Log defects identified and track them through retesting and closure
- Debug using ADB commands and tools like Charles Proxy to primarily identify the root cause of failures.
Skill:
- Good understanding of mobile and web applications functionality
- Good understanding of how APIs work functionally
- Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes
- Experience in writing clear, concise, and comprehensive test plans and test cases
- Hands-on experience with both white box and black box testing
- Non-functional testing of mobile applications including but not limited to battery analysis, GPU overdraw, responsiveness, etc.
Describe the ideal candidate here.
All of the GaragePlug product modules have critical workflows, and the new developers need to be more confident and fearless about making changes in the system. This will help to deliver products faster to the customers while building more robust products.
We have developed an in-house framework for manually testing the features/product before the launch. This has helped us to catch more than 1000 bugs before releasing the feature in production.
Think of this as the backbone that will help engineers from the product team to automate critical workflows and coordinate bug bashes for all the product teams. Your understanding of functional testing, writing maintainable tests, written and verbal communication skills will be put to the test.
# WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING
### **Within 1st month**
- Learn all aspects of products and critical workflows for each of the products as part of your training.
- Setup the dev environment and organise your first bug bash.
- Have a one-one chat with every member of the GaragePlug team so you get to know everyone well.
- 1-hour session every week with one of the product & quality experts from other Upekkha startups
- Weekly 2 times join sales and customer success team for pre-sales customer demos to understand the product usage
- Weekly 1 session with customer success team to know more about the domain and product usage
- Start writing the functional test case masters for core modules
### **Within 3 months**
- You’ll start developing your first project all by yourself.(With some guidance)
- Write your first set of automation code and work with other engineers to setup functional testing workflows.
- Have an exhaustive test-case/scenarios for all product components
- Be responsible for the product release and release process automation
### **Within 6 months**
- You’ll automate five to six critical workflows for the existing product.
- Establish process for writing functional test that will impact the entire product.
- Be comfortable navigating most of our stack and infrastructure.
- Be responsible for the planning, scoping, design, and implementation of new bug-bashes.
### **Within 12 months**
- You’ll automate at least 60-70%of the workflows in product and completely own QA as a function.
- Participate in interviewing and hiring, as a way to influence team growth and how our values inform our culture.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, sales and customer success leadership to define priorities and set delivery goals.
# **WHAT AN IDEAL CANDIDATE WOULD LOOK LIKE**
- We use Spring-boot microservices for backend and Angular 2+/Ionic 3+ for frontend. We prefer someone with experience in selenium, but it is not necessary. You must have experience of working with testing frameworks like selenium, tools, or SaaS products for functional testing like [cypress.io](https://cypress.io/).
- Dedicated to testing. While testing can sometimes get repetitive and monotonous, it is critical to our engineering efforts.
- 2-4 years of experience with automated functional testing.
- Pays great attention to detail and helps identify edge cases.
- A knack for breaking things. You should be driven to test with the motive of breaking the application.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
**Personality traits we really admire**
- Great attitude to ask questions, learn and suggest process improvements.
- Excellent problem solving and analytical skills.
- Previous work experience at a product-based company or startup would be a bonus.
- You are a team player
**Our tech stack is Java Spring-boot, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Angular 2+, Ionic 3+, Typescript. Our platform is hosted on AWS Cloud.**
# **INTERVIEW PROCESS AND PREP NOTES**
- **Problem Solving & Analytical Skills:** We are a Java & Angular shop, and if you say that you will improve the quality of the product, we expect you to know basics of typescript and/or Java (but not mandatory)
- **Blackbox Testing:** Be prepared to answer some simulation-based questions during our interviews. From writing the requirements for a test case to planning & executing test plans on the GaragePlug platform, watch out for some hard-hitting questions.
- **Culture Round:** Understand if your values and beliefs fit in with your company’s culture. Be yourself. This is for both sides to evaluate if we're a cultural fit for each other.
- **Founder Round:** Discussion with both the founders of the company. This round helps us evaluate how we both can mutually benefit each other.
# **WHY JOIN US**
- **Freedom & Responsibility:** If you are a person who wants to take up challenging work & push your boundaries with no one monitoring you, then this is the right place for you. There are no hierarchies. No managers to please.
- **Great Salary & Equity:** For our top performers and leaders, we grant stock options. As GaragePlug continues to grow, you’ll have a real opportunity to create wealth for yourself and your family. We pay great salaries too!
- **Transparency:** If you ever wanted to know what it’s like to be on an entrepreneurial journey, then working with GaragePlug gives you that opportunity to experience it all first hand.
If all of this sounds exciting to you, join us for an exciting and equally fulfilling ride at GaragePlug!
Our client is a revolutionary Educational services platform, that brings in innovation and expertise in their ways of learning. Awarded as one of the best Google apps of 2017, the app provides students with a variety of online courses that cover K12 subjects, Entrance exams, Engineering and Finance stream topics, as well as Self-help notes.
Their unique and simple AI based site and app feature 500+ courses, nearly a lakh videos and tests, and also imparts strength and weakness analysis for the students to improve their knowledge base. The 5 yr old organisation is one of the most loved ed-tech platforms that reaches more than 4.5 million registered users.
- Creating and maintaining test plans as the product grows in functionality
- Researching, designing, and implementing the automation framework for tests
- Creating processes around the entire testing workflow, all the way from test case management, test data creation, automatic bug captures, test progress measurement etc.
- Defining test specifications for functional, integration and performance testing.
- Collaborating with the development team in continuous build & deployment process
- Reporting test coverage and participating in troubleshooting
- Creating optimal test strategy (including functional, non-functional, analytics and automation) and test plans for both short term and long term projects.
- Editing Job Description
- 2-5 years of experience working in a product based startup/company
- Understand the creation and implementation of test cases for immediate test scenarios and long term test case strategies.
- BE/B.Tech from Tier 1 college (Computer Science/Relevant Degree) or great set of experience of working in startup(s)/product based companies.
- Knowledge of automation tools like Selenium suite of Tools (Selenium IDE, Selenium RC, Selenium Web Driver and Selenium Grid)
- Experience in testing both Android & iOS, as well as the website
- Experience in establishing/managing small teams and setting up best practices across engineering units ensuring perfect releases each time.
- Good understanding of the user experience as well as ensuring a seamless product journey for users.
- Should be able to understand requirements and test algorithms accordingly.
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
- Should be resourceful, innovative and inventive.
- Creative in approaching the problems following different approaches, mindset, devices, environment, etc.
- Know how to prioritize things on the basis of their impact on the product & the company.
- Empathy towards students to understand the problem or take regular feedback for product improvement.
- Quality of keeping pace while working in dynamic atmosphere
- Great skills to communicate with the team and also articulate them for the internal documentation within the team members.
JOB ROLE
QA Engineer
ABOUT COMPANY
StyleCracker is the most innovative fashion tech platform in the country. With a vision to make India stylish, we have developed the StyleCracker Box that combines leading technology and first hand stylist experience to curate highly personalised looks for every unique customer.
We're looking to build upon our solid foundation and develop an unmatched solution that can truly help us work towards our mission.
ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES
- Responsible for the quality of product visible to millions of users.
- Prepare proper documentation for test cases, release notes, etc.
- Keep track of bugs and prioritize those in coordination with Product Managers.
- Write and execute detailed test cases for upcoming features and ensure customer requirements and development is closely aligned.
- Contribute ideas to improve/develop our QA processes and best practices based on your extensive experience.
- Troubleshoot application issues and coordinate issue resolution with developers, PMs and internal teams.
- Ensure that software functionality is implemented with a focus on code optimization and organization.
SKILLS
- Excellent understanding of software development life cycle.
- Should be strong in writing use cases.
- Strong understanding of determining the cause of bugs.
- Excellent knowledge of API responses, statuses, etc.
- Excellent understanding of load time optimization, latency, etc.
- Hands on experience with performance measuring tools like jMeter, Postman, etc.
- Experience with using the latest engineering tools (eg. Jenkins, JIRA, Confluence, Git/Perforce).
- Excellent team orientation and communication skills.
- Good knowledge of frontend and backend technologies.
- Knowledge of automation testing tools such as Selenium.
- Experience working in agile methodology.
- Experience with API automation testing.
- Ability to multitask, prioritize, manage workload and consistently deliver results.
- Understanding of the different types of testing between UAT, Security and Performance.
- Ability to generate benchmarks by comparing similar products / services.
EXPERIENCE
- Bachelors or masters degree in computer science or a related field.
- 2 – 3 years experience as a QA engineer on native mobile (android and ios) and web applications.








