Quality Analyst

We are looking for a QA Automation  Engineer who understands how to ensure the quality of a product that is changing very fast. If you're passionate about writing code to test financial products at scale , then we want to chat. Are you ready to revolutionize the small business banking industry with us?

About the Role

• Collaborate with developers and product managers to deliver the highest quality with each release
• Own the acceptance criteria process with developers and create detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test cases for features
• Create the necessary automation library and framework as required and build automation tests and integrated them to CI/CD pipeline
• Communicate using synchronous and asynchronous channels to collaborate effectively

Requirements for the Role

• 5+ years experience with manual and automation testing
• Experience with QA methodologies for large scale web and mobile applications, understanding of software development process
• Experience with mobile,(android and iOS) web and API automation testing using tools such as Selenium, Appium and Postman
• Demonstrated ability to work well with others in a team environment and with geographically distributed teams
• Experience working with SCM tools like Git
• Experience in implementing CI/CD regression pipelines

This position is responsible for overseeing the testing of software features as part of a collaborative team. This role is responsible for leading quality review of various applications and includes creating test plans and strategy, test cases in partnership with developers, business analysts, and project managers which are used to shape and verify code and check conformance to system requirements. The role relies upon test automation and manual testing tools. The person is to assist in defining QA coding standards and frameworks, and for identifying emerging technologies and evaluating their applicability to the clients business goals.

Responsibilities:

• Review client requirement and provides feedback
• Responsible for creating test plans and strategy
• Reviews and re-evaluates the test strategy to adjust for new information, changing risks, shifting priorities and schedules
• Oversees projects to make sure work is scheduled based on priorities, features, risks, and team strengths and assignment of resources across projects
• Oversees implementation and execution of functional, regression, and acceptance tests
• Assists in test environment setup/teardown, test automation, and exploratory testing
• Oversees the creation and maintenance of test data and test documentation
• Provides suitable solutions for issues/errors based on the understanding of the system and client business processes
• Leads/mentors Test Engineers and shares knowledge to make sure QA staff meets technical qualifications required for their positions. Assists in coaching junior staff, by helping them to make decisions, solve problems, manage meetings and set goals, provide feedback on testing-related tasks, delegates and assigns testing responsibilities
• Assists Manager in setting the direction for quality assurance within the organization
• Assists in recruiting new staff, conducting interviews, and evaluate potential candidates Qualifications:
• Experience in testing various applications, services, and user interfaces
• Experience in test automation and creating repeatable, maintainable, automated test suites
• Should have experience in AI projects.
• Experience managing a team of QA Engineers
• Experience in communicating with clients
• Experience in testing gaming projects.
• Understanding of test-driven development
• Understanding of software development lifecycle and best practices
• Understanding of Agile and Waterfall processes
• Strong knowledge of software quality assurance best practices & methodologies
• Familiarity with various defect management systems

Requirements:

• We are looking for someone with 6 - 7 years of overall working experience in the software environment & 2 -3 years of experience in handling the QA Lead Role.
• Experience in Selenium.
• Ability to communicate technical aspects to people with non-IT background.
• Ability to act as a liaison between QA and development teams
• Ability to ensure that solutions developed by technical teams fit the business needs
• Ability to offer alternative approaches to achieve the client goals
• Ability to analyse complex situations and manage all variables to achieve optimal solutions
• Ability to act on the information provided or get information needed so that decisions for project.
• implementations can be made quickly and effectively.
• Ability to motivate teams.
• Ability to define and prioritize short-term and long-term objectives for the teams and make necessary corrections under changing circumstances
• Ability to communicate in English verbally and in writing Education and Work
• Background in CS, IT or related scientific discipline

Job Description - Sr. SDET

Creator of frameworks and tools that help engineering move fast. Advocates best practices. Metric & Data-driven in

decisions.

Do you thrive to help ship awesome software, not just prevent poor software from being released?

At TestVagrant we believe that shipping awesome software requires more than just testing and test automation. It

involves constant improvements to processes, tools, testing techniques, and approaches. It involves collaborating

with engineering & business teams, collecting metrics, analysing data, and innovating constantly.

If you're someone who champions & advocates quality, understands risks, and is courageous to drive the change,

then this position was made for you!

More about TestVagrant

We are a team of software consultants specializing in test engineering. We partner with our clients in their ambitious digital missions & integrate business, engineering, and technology to deliver quality software faster and safer.

As consultants, our goal is to ship awesome software. By expanding our identities and playing overlapping roles

across business, engineering & technology, we bring a deeper and more positive impact in amplifying business growth for our clients.

Our engineers have been building and contributing to open-source projects. Ekam.Studio and Optimus are a few to mention. Our thoughts and opinions are reflected in articles, blogs, and books.

You’ll spend time on the following:

● You will proactively seek out ways to avoid common software-testing problems such as test case duplication,

flaky tests, and maintainability

● You will pair including but not limited to devs, business analysts, engineering managers and operations to

identify gaps & improve team efficiencies

● Strive for quality to be baked-in and aspire to shift quality to the left

● Extend your passion for quality assurance practices to enable the engineering teams & coaches to adopt a

testing mindset.

● Spike, Compare and choose the right tools and eco-system for scalable and fast test automation

● Drive the creation of reliable automated testing frameworks with strong reporting capabilities that ensures

simple, effective analysis of failures for your team to use

● Capture metrics to measure the quality and make decisions that improve quality

The outcomes of this role include:

● The team is able to get faster feedback for changes and express confidence in safety-net

● The team is able to measure and gain insights into improvements to the product quality

● Team expresses increased confidence and trust in test assets

You’ll also spend time on the following:

● Storytelling and socializing the tech and engineering success stories across TestVagrant

● Take initiative and participate in others, that move organization forward, aligning with tech and engineering first culture

● Mentor the SDETs to grow in the direction of Sr. SDETs

● To achieve the above, most of the following experience is a must:

● You have worked as a Quality Analyst as part of a distributed engineering team, pairing with Devs, Business Analysts, and Infra teams

● You have championed the quality domain and are proficient in functional, non-functional, and exploratory testing techniques

● You have championed the testing domain and applied wisdom to prevent common mistakes

● You have collaborated with business and engineering teams to arrive at non-functional requirement

● You have contributed to various layers of the test pyramid

● You have designed, developed, and evolved scalable test automation frameworks from scratch

● You have proficiency in automation tools and techniques, including but not limited to Web, Mobile, and APIs

● You have the ability to pick up new tech stack and contribute to developing test assets

● You have worked with code coverage tools, linting, and static code analysers

B2BTesters is a fast growing startup with a team of 120+ people providing Testing As A Service (TAAS) to funded startups such as zeelearn, 73 Strings , BIZONGO, Classplus and many more. Within one year of operations, we have acquired 30+ blue chip startups and crossed 100 colleagues. 

To continue this rapid growth, we like to get onboard experienced Testers in the roles of Leads and Managers in our Head Quarters - Navi Mumbai. 

With us you will have exposure to a wide variety of industries and be in the cutting edge of latest happenings and technologies in the startup world and the testing world. 

Job Summary:

Lead Quality Assurance Engineer is required to have hands-on experience in end to end Manual/Automated testing. He/She should be able to write test plans/strategy and should be able to execute it. He/She should be able to write an automation framework from scratch and should be able to write test scripts..

Skill Requirements:

Hands on experience in Manual/Automated testing

Excellent understanding of automated frameworks & techniques

Excellent in development and execution of test scripts

Excellent understanding of Rest/Soap API testing

Good knowledge of accessing and configuring Databases

Experience with automated tools like selenium

Experience with BDD tools like Cucumber/JBehave

Knowledge of web servers like IIS/Tomcat would be plus

Working knowledge in Agile/Scrum environment

Knowledge on performance & security testing

Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or field related to the     products being developed are required.   
• More     than 5 years of experience in related field required with     supervisory experience a plus.

What do we offer

• Widest exposure - learn whats going on in the startup world directly interacting with funded companies across edtech, fintech, gaming, healthtech, logistics, ecom etc

• Be part of the most innovative player in the testing startup world. We are building tools and technologies to make testing easier, faster and better. To do that, we are reimagining processes, and products. We are innovating across the board. 

• Competitive Salary - benchmarked against the industry.  

• Lucrative Incentives - workation, allowances, interesting offers 
• Immense opportunity to learn and grow in an organization with a young dynamic workforce in startup culture.

At JFrog, we’re reinventing DevOps to help the world’s greatest companies innovate -- and we want you along for the ride. This is a special place with a unique combination of brilliance, spirit and just all-around great people. Here, if you’re willing to do more, your career can take off. And since software plays a central role in everyone’s lives, you’ll be part of an important mission. Thousands of customers, including the majority of the Fortune 100, trust JFrog to manage, accelerate, and secure their software delivery from code to production -- a concept we call “liquid software.” Wouldn't it be amazing if you could join us in our journey?

JFrog is searching for an experienced Automation Development Engineer, to boost up our growing QA automation platforms, working on automation and infrastructure development. In this role, you will be developing and maintaining Developers and QA automation platforms, including test execution, bug detection and load testing.  

As a Senior Automation Engineer in JFrog you will... 

• Develop and implement tools for automated testing (Linux Shell, Java/Groovy, Docker, Kubernetes)
• Take essential part in the development cycles, in order to deliver high quality products
• Closely interact with developers and support, regarding customer issues
• Investigate software issues as a result of testing

To be a Senior Automation Engineer in JFrog you need…

• 5+ years experience in automation development in OO language
• Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Shippable, TravisCI or similar
• Deep understanding in Docker
• Experience in writing automation tests for applications in Linux/Unix environments
• Bug detection abilities and good analysis to root cause detection
• Analytical approach for troubleshooting and problem solving
• Self-learner and independent executor

• Work closely with the Delivery Manager and Sales team to understand client and project requirements and define the scope of the project.
• Prepare test strategy to deliver to the agreed scope within agreed timelines and budgets.
• Work with Delivery Manager and Resource Management Group to build the necessary team, either from the available internal pool or support hiring.
• Work with the Delivery Manager to develop the testing strategy.
• Understand the project delivery governance framework and ensure test planning, execution, and closure are done in accordance with the delivery framework.
• Prepare test plans to include timelines for activities and key milestones.
• Lead a team of 4-5 test engineers and work alongside test architects and SMEs.
• Work allocation to team members and monitoring performance and ensure completion of tasks by team members to agreed timelines.
• Coordinate system/application understanding sessions for team members with relevant client team member(s).
• Work with test architects to design, develop and maintain test automation framework, where required.
• Develop test automation suites, along with team members.
• Review output of team members for test coverage (functional) and in case of test automation framework and suites, review for adherence to good and efficient coding practices and coding standards, reusability, avoid redundancy and duplicity.
• Raise PRs and check-in code and in the process resolve any conflicts and sync issues.
• Ensure efficient versioning and maintenance of test automation code.
• Assist in troubleshooting and resolving technical and non-technical challenges and blockers faced by team members.
• Coaching and leading in practices like Pair Programming, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD), Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD).
• Be the go-to person / first point of contact for any project-related queries or concerns, for both client and internal stakeholders.
• Preparation and distribution of periodic project progress mails and reports to the client and internal stakeholders.
• Risk management – early identification of risks and mitigation, and where required invoke relevant and timely escalation and support.
• Preparation and/or review of documentation, required across all phases of the project.
• Mentor and guide team members in helping them grow professionally.
• Provide feedback about team members to the Delivery Manager for periodic performance appraisal.

Qualification and mandatory experience

• Graduate or Post-graduate, an engineering graduate is desirable but not mandatory.
• Minimum 7 years of total experience in manual and automation testing of which at least 3 years as a hands-on Test Lead with proven experience of leading at least a 3-member team.

Mandatory Skills

• Knowledge of software QA methodologies, processes, and tools for manual and automation testing.
• At least 3 years proven experience of leading a minimum 3-member team in manual and automation testing.
• Experience of working in an Agile environment and delivering in sprints.
• At least 3+ years designing, developing, and maintaining Test Automation frameworks and solutions across various technology stacks and applications for web, mobile, API, and data validation.
• Expert level experience in at least one programming language, Java is preferable but not mandatory
• Expert level experience in debugging.
• Expert level experience in developing web UI test automation suite using Selenium or mobile UI test automation suite using Appium.
• Expert level experience in developing API test automation suite using Rest Assured.
• Raise PRs and merge test automation code.
• Knowledge of CI/CD tools and pipelines.
• Experience in at least one build tool like Jenkins, Maven or Gradle and setting up a build pipeline and integrated testing.
• Code management using Github or SVN.
• Test and defect management using JIRA or any other tool.
• Preparation of test documentation across various phases
• Preparation and distribution of periodic progress reports to internal and external stakeholders
• Excellent verbal and written communication are quintessential.

Desirable Skills

• Junit and TestNG for unit testing.
• Espresso for Android app automation.
• XCUI test for iOS app automation.
• Experience in non-functional testing, e.g., load/soak/performance, security, and accessibility, by using standard and new testing techniques.
• Experience in testing applications across eCommerce, banking, and fintech domains.

• Test current products and identify 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.
• Track quality assurance metrics, like defect densities and open defect counts.
• Prepare and present reports and metrics to Senior Management.

• A minimum of 2 years of experience as a Quality Assurance Engineer.
• An experience with a variety of different testing techniques such as UI Testing, Automated testing, Test Driven Development Strategies, etc
• An experience in testing tools such as Selenium, JMeter
• An experience with coding using Python, Java, Node.js.
• An experience with software QA tools and processes.
• Knowledge of MySQL
• A sense of ownership and pride in your performance and its impact on the company’s success.
• Critical thinker and problem-solving skills
• Good time-management skills
• Great interpersonal and communication skill

• A team of aces, from top-tier schools and startups, to work with
• A fast-paced, data-driven, and fun work environment
• A huge appetite for new, disruptive, creative, and implementable ideas
• An open work culture

• Competitive salary
• Great working environment, opportunity to work directly with the founders on very exciting real-life problems.
• Opportunity to grow really fast.
• Opportunity to hire a team & mentor them in the future.
• ESOPs

1. Shortlist
2. Intro call of 15min
3. 1-2 Tech rounds
4. HR round
5. Offer rollout