SIMFORM (CMMI LEVEL 3)- Cypress Automation Test Engineer

JD:

Minimum 13 years of Total IT experience out of which around 5 Yrs as a QA Lead

Experience in QA Automation using Selenium and C#.

Strong Experience in Test Case Management and Manual Testing

Experience in developing and implementing QA strategies, standards, and processes to ensure high-quality product releases.

Fluent written & spoken English.

Work Location: Hyderabad (WFH - subject to company policy)

SDET

GradRight is an ed-fin-tech startup focused on global higher education. Using data science, technology and strategic partnerships across the industry, we are enabling students to find the “Right University” at the “Right Cost”.

We are on a mission to aid a million students to find their best fit universities and financial offerings by 2025. Our flagship product - FundRight is the world’s first student loan bidding platform. We helped disburse more than USD 40 million in loans in 2020-21 and are growing aggressively.

Brief:

Quality is paramount at GradRight and as an SDET, you’ll own it. You will have a 360 degree view of how software quality impacts the entire business, with which you’ll identify and address problem areas, contribute to testing efforts on a daily basis as well as participate in setting up an impeccable QA organization for the long term.

Responsibilities:

1. Participate in sprint ceremonies and work with engineers, PMs and UX designers to understand feature requirements that can be converted into test cases
2. Write/maintain test suites for new features, products and feature updates
3. Contribute to discussions around writing testable code and ensure that sprints come to a successful closure while taking QA into consideration
4. Constantly strive to keep test coverage to highest possible level
5. Be the release owner - create test plans, monitor execution, report on test execution and work with engineers to ensure that bugs are fixed before releases
6. Build testing frameworks to help improve the velocity of QA efforts across the organization
7. Work with production support engineers to troubleshoot issues before handing them off to engineering team, while owning issue resolution

Requirements:

1. At least 3 years experience as an SDET
2. Expertise in various testing methodologies like functional, integration, black box, performance, etc
3. Expertise in writing end to end automation tests for both mobile and web applications using frameworks like Selenium, Appium, Nightwatch, REST-Assured, etc
4. Experience in designing QA strategy and developing corresponding test automation scripts/frameworks
5. Passion for documentation and writing clean code
6. Strong understanding of software development workflows and agile tools like JIRA
7. Proficient in at least one programming language
8. Exposure to software design principles and patterns
9. Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Good to have:

1. Experience in CI/CD and cloud infrastructure management
2. Worked on products that addressed international audience
3. Worked on products that scaled to millions of users

Location: Bengaluru (Currently remote)

Additional resources:

1. Our team - https://gradright.com/team.html
2. Customer testimonials - https://gradright.com/testimonials.html
3. GradRight on social media - LinkedIn, Instagram

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience of working across the full testing lifecycle
• Experience in creating optimal test strategies and test plans
• Expertise in automation and manual testing of APIs, UI, database and apps
• Knowledge of automated testing tools 
• Comfortable with SQL
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipeline is desirable
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Highly responsive in resolving issues
• Good team player with an attitude 

Responsibilities

• Manual Testing + Test Automation
• Manual testing (Functional), Database testing
• Exposure in Selenium, Javascript, etc
• Exposure in Agile and DevOps 
• Excellent communication skills

• Review requirements, specifications and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback
• Create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases
• Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activities
• Design, develop and execute automation scripts using open source tools
• Identify, record, document thoroughly and track bugs
• Perform thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved
• Develop and apply testing processes for new and existing products to meet client needs
• Liaise with internal teams (e.g. developers and product managers) to identify system requirements
• Monitor debugging process results
• Investigate the causes of non-conforming software and train users to implement solutions
• Track quality assurance metrics, like defect densities and open defect counts

Stay up to date with new testing tools and test strategies

Requirements

• Proven work experience in software development
• Proven work experience in software quality assurance
• 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
• Hands-on experience with automated testing tools
• Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process
• Experience with performance and/or security testing is a plus
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
• Knowledge about API/Service Testing would be important

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 for SDET (Test Automation - Selenium-Java)

As a SDET you will work closely with development teams, project managers, business analysts and manual testers across different projects.

Employment Type – Full Time - Permanent

About us

Founded in 2015 in Pune, vTEST (www.vtestcorp.com) is an independent software testing services firm based out of Pune, India and registered in Delaware, US. vTEST works with clients across the globe and employs Manual and Automation Testers to implement best testing practices for all types of testing. Our testers work from vTEST offices in Pune OR from our client offices across India and international locations.

Once here you will?

Some of the things that you can look forward to doing once you are here are:

1. Be part of Agile rituals like Feature elaboration/Estimation, daily stand-ups, release planning, Iteration Planning Meeting, Retrospective, Showcase, etc

2. Conduct detailed automation tests for each application being released and produce comprehensive reports.

3. Research new tools, methods and keep yourself up to date with the latest trends in test automation arena.

4. Own the test automation tasks for multiple projects simultaneously.

5. Recommend and implement test strategies that ensure best delivery to client.

6. Highlight risks for testing delivery to project manager, business stake holders.

What does vTEST offer you?

vTEST is a place unlike any other. It’s a place where you can solve diverse, complex challenges for our clients, alongside thoughtful, intelligent individuals who lead with curiosity, empathy, and optimism. We work hard, but we also intentionally craft moments that allow our community to pause, create, and connect. We encourage our community to bring their whole selves to work, respect the need for work-life balance, and allow for autonomy in the design process and your career. Perks include

While some organisations offer you perks and benefits, we offer you the ‘vTEST Experience.’ An experience that gives you the opportunity to learn, innovate and have loads of fun.

As we aspire to be an organisation where every meet-up that happens in Pune happens at vTEST. ng partner

We organise series of technology events, hackathons, workshops and tech meet-ups to give our wiz kids the opportunity to interact with industry leaders and to also spread and rely on the expertise we possess.

We do everything we can to make life here as easy as possible and do our best to take people's personal situations into account. Some of our key perks reflect our culture at vTEST:

Technology: A company that promotes technology evangelism. Our constant endeavor is to continue to challenge our technology landscape and to pioneer the use and implement some of the coolest available technologies in the world.

Learning & development: At vTEST, we believe in continuous learning and upgrading skills to have our testomaniacs at par with latest industry standards. All testomaniacs are encouraged to identify trainings, courses, sessions and conferences that they would like to attend. We sponsor INR 5000 per annum for each testomaniac to attend trainings, seminar, and conferences on prior approval from Team Lead and HR.

Industry Connects: We provide a lot of opportunities for our employees to interact, learn and collaborate with thought leaders and evangelists in the industry through many connects, meet-ups and workshops that we conduct in our organisation. We also encourage our folks to publish papers, present at various conferences and even write books and are open to provide all kinds of support required in such endeavors.

Thank God It’s Friday (TGIF): Each testomaniac is required to speak on tools, technology, domain on alternate Fridays as a part of our TGIF Series. We love to share what we know and TGIF is the best platform where we have all our testomaniacs connected and participate for the next generation of testing.

Choose your own work days and work hours: We work for 9 hours per day typically from 10am to 7.00pm IST Monday to Friday. However, you are free to decide your own working hours and sometime working days too like Tuesday to Saturday, Sunday to Thursday. For testomaniacs working out from client office, they are required to follow the workdays, timings and holiday calendar as per client location.

Sabbaticals: We promote leaves for a purpose. Employees can take an unpaid sabbatical for a maximum of 3 months, to set up their own business or for higher education.

Relevant experience - Minimum qualifications:

 Total IT Experience: 3 to 7 years

 Education: MCA or BCA or any Computer Degree.

 Good experience in manual testing of at least 1 of web applications, clientserver applications, mobile apps

 At least 2 year experience with test automation using any tool like Selenium WebDriver with Java

 Good understanding of operating system concepts, databases, system architecture and performance testing concepts

 Good understanding of SDLC, STLC and different project methodologies

 Good understanding of test plan, test cases writing/reviewing, effort estimations & test strategy

 Strong analytical skills with excellent troubleshooting approach

 Good verbal and written communication in English

 Excellent documentation skills and able to explain application workflow, system design, defects and functionality in clear and concise manner

 Able to work independently and multi-tasking

Preferred qualifications:

 Managerial or Lead experience is not desired as this is an individual contributor role.

 Experience with any scripting language is a plus.

 Any testing certification such as ISTQB, CMMi standards, Agile and Scrum knowledge.