Software QA Lead

To prepare placement students with the technical knowledge, skills, and confidence required to succeed in campus recruitment drives, technical interviews, and entry-level job roles in the industry.

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Mercer Talent Enterprise is hiring for experienced full stack Ruby on Rails developers.

As a Senior Ruby On Rails Engineer, you'll work on a closely-knit team with a technology stack built on top of Ruby on Rails 7.x. We like to work with modern technologies, always try to do what is best for the customer and put more value on teamwork than rock stars and cowboys.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Ruby code
• Lead the technical design and development of major platform components to help our technology platform scale with our explosive user growth.
• Actively promote code quality, organization and automatization
• Build new features to improve psychometric assessments
• Shape our product roadmaps by being data-driven and creative
• Use and promote TDD best practices
• Pair program with team members of different experiences
• Be a mentor when you have the expertise / Be a student when someone else does

Required Experience or Skills

• 5+ years experience with Ruby on Rails
• Experience working with Postgres database
• Expert knowledge of feature/end-to-end and unit tests
• TDD experience with RSpec and Capybara
• Strong JavaScript skills
• Strong HTML / CSS 3 skills
• Experience working with a Continuous Integration environment (CircleCI, Github Actions, Jenkins, etc.)
• Understanding and commitment to Agile processes
• Great communication, particularly in explaining your coding processes, suggestions for best practices, and identifying ways to improve the team's coding quality

Desired Skills & Experience

• Experience developing with React / Redux
• Experience developing with TypeScript
• Working knowledge with Docker

You'll get

• Competitive salary with health benefits
• An extremely energising, dynamic and fast paced entrepreneurial working culture and environment
• An opportunity to work on leading edge technology products and solutions that will be first movers in the market
• An opportunity to travel to international locations where our clients may be based
• Latest laptop, devices and technologies for your needs
• Unique and supportive opportunities to progress in your career
• On-going team and professional development

Where

Remote

About Mercer Talent Enterprise

Mercer Talent Enterprise is a global leader providing talent foresight for an organization’s most pivotal people decisions through our talent assessment, leadership, and capability development solutions. By integrating our extensive expertise in assessment and psychometric tools with progressive and modern advances in technology and evidence-based data science, Mercer Talent Enterprise enables a depth and breadth of assessment solutions across the employee lifecycle.

Responsibilities

· Developing user-facing applications using Vue.js

· Building modular and reusable components and libraries

· Optimizing your application for performance

· Implementing automated testing integrated into development and maintenance workflows

· Staying up to date with all recent developments in the JavaScript and Vue.js space

· Keeping an eye on security updates and issues found with Vue.js and all project dependencies

· Proposing any upgrades and updates necessary for keeping up with modern security and development best practices

What we need in you?

· Highly proficient with the JavaScript language and its modern ES6+ syntax and features

· Highly proficient with Vue.js framework and its core principles such as components, reactivity, and the virtual DOM

· Familiarity with the Vue.js ecosystem, including Vue CLI, Vuex, Vue Router, and Nuxt.js

· Good understanding of HTML5 and CSS3, including

· Understanding of server-side rendering and its benefits and use cases

· Knowledge of functional programming and object-oriented programming paradigms

· Ability to write efficient, secure, well-documented, and clean JavaScript code

· Familiarity with automated JavaScript testing, specifically testing frameworks such as Jest or Mocha

· Proficiency with modern development tools, like Babel, Webpack, and Git

· Experience with both consuming and designing RESTful APIs

Responsibilities:

• Conceptualize and define product vision, create the roadmap and drive its execution
• Define, track and improve the key product metrics
• Think analytically about workflows and the impact of product features on conversion
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams like product managers, developers, designers, marketing and SEO to drive the product execution
• Develop and provide thought leadership in the user experience across devices.
• Leverage available insights like market analysis, customer feedback, site metrics, and usability findings
• Prioritize the features based on user requirements and cost benefit analysis
• A keen, flexible and aggressive intellect with superb conceptual thinking, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work with diverse teams across the organization
• Be the brand custodian and ensure design guidelines are followed for digital communications
• Design sprints and conduct daily scrums with the team

Requirements:

• Excellent understanding of product development life cycle
• Deep understanding of how your products work, know every step of the funnel.
• You'll be expected to delve deep into datasets, build dashboards and design and accurately measure experiments
• Excellent experience in creating product roadmap, optimization chart & prioritization sheet
• Good knowledge of tech, design, SEO & marketing
• Strong hand on analytical tools like Google Analytics, Mixpanel, Clevertap, Redash etc
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate upwardly to top management and downward to a wide range of audiences, especially tech teams
• Must be self-directed and motivated and able to multitask in a fast paced environment
• Excellent skills in prototyping tools such as Balsamiq, Adobe XD, Just In Mind, etc
• SQL knowledge is a must
• Ability to rapidly visualize/prototype concepts
• Ability to AB test prototypes and conduct experiments
• Ability to provide deliverables within specified deadline with a quality bar
• Excellent team orientation and communication skills
• Experience in hospitality domain is a plus Experience
• 4+ years of product management experience
• 6+ years of overall experience
• Programming knowledge is a plus
• Bachelors' degree in Engineering
• MBA is a plus
• Salary range is flexible based on interview performance and relevant experience

Responsibilities:

• Works on all stages of the software development life cycle (SDLC).
• Develops, codes, tests, and debugs software and applications using Java.
• Designs features and makes improvements based on user experience data.
• Completes unit testing to identify and fix programming errors.
• Uses common testing and software documentation tools.
• Writes software documentation guides.
• Collaborates with other members of the software development team.