Software Tester

We are currently looking for a detail-oriented Test Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate should have expertise in manual testing, along with a basic understanding of Selenium automation testing and Python.

🌏 Job Location: On-Site

What You Will Be Doing

• Perform manual testing on software applications to ensure quality and performance standards are met.
• Create, maintain, and improve test frameworks to ensure comprehensive test coverage.
• Work together with Developers, Product Managers, and other stakeholders to identify and resolve software issues.
• Assist in Test Automation efforts using Selenium and Python scripts.
• Develop end-to-end testing strategies and prepare test plans through the use of quality processes and methodologies.
• Writing and executing test plans for Functional, Regression, Integration, end-to-end performance and user acceptance testing.
• Create comprehensive documentation and communicate extensively with cross-functional teams to deliver a high-quality product.
• Recommend improvements in software to enhance user experience.
• Works together with the team to enhance and improve quality of the Web and Mobile apps.

What You’ll Need

• Min. 3 months of experience as a Test Engineer.
• Good debugging skills and troubleshooting.
• Experience in Manual Testing, Selenium (Basic), Python (Basic).
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience in Functional, Regression, Integration, Performance Testing.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and teamwork abilities.
• Understanding the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Testing concepts and methodologies.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based Incentives.
• Working closely with the leadership & an opportunity for an accelerated career growth.
• Opportunities for professional development and career growth.
• Collaborative and dynamic work environment.
• Access to company-sponsored training and resources.

JD for QA Engineer:

• Must have worked on web based applications like React(Frontend) and Drupal CMS(backend)
• Understand requirements, develop test plan, execute manual test cases, dig deeper into issues, identify root causes and articulate defects clearly.
• Strive for excellence in quality by looking beyond obvious scenarios and stated requirements and by keeping end user needs in mind.
• Deliver a high quality robust product in a fast paced environment.
• Work closely with the Development, Product Management, Design and Content team for release of the feature/product.
• Recreate production reported issues to determine root cause and verify the fix.
• Stay current with the latest technology, tools and methodologies; share knowledge by clearly articulating results and ideas to peers.
• Self-starter, takes initiative, identifies and completes tasks, should be goal driven.
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Required Skills:

• Graduate or Masters in Computer Science Engineering or a related field.
• 4-5 years of experience in QA methodologies, SDLC, STLC
• Strong testing & technical skills with excellent knowledge of designing tests for early defect identification.
• Hands on experience in creation and execution of test cases/test plans.
• Experience of SQL and Database and API Testing.
• Excellent debugging, troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• Understanding of Performance, and Security Testing techniques.
• Knowledge of Unix/Linux environments and hands-on with Unix shell commands.
• Hands on experience with technologies like React, and Drupal CMS

Note: immediate joiners.(Good communication, React and Drupal CMS must have skills)

Job Title: Test Engineer

Job Description:

We are seeking a Test Engineer with 3 to 6 years of experience to join our dynamic testing team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in manual/Automation testing, excellent communication skills, the ability to write comprehensive test cases, and a deep understanding of the domain in which our products operate. The Manual Tester should be a proactive team player, capable of taking ownership of their work, maintaining good rapport within the team and across other teams, and providing clear and accurate documentation of testing activities. Hands on experience in automation testing and API testing.

Qualifications and Skills:

• 3 to 6 years of experience in manual testing and automation testing.
• Excellent communication skills to effectively collaborate with team members and stakeholders.
• Strong test case writing/execution and Automation scripting skills.
• Deep domain knowledge relevant to the software under test.
• Proactive and self-motivated with a strong sense of ownership.
• Effective documentation and reporting skills.
• Experience with Web Automation is mandatory and mobile automation is an added advantage.
• Experience with API testing.

• Reviews design specifications to understand the scope, requirements, and function of the software product.
• Preparation of test data and execution of test cases (including functional, system, regression, performance, API and database layer etc.)
• Identifies appropriate processes, parameters, functions, and data to test and validate; parameters may include general function, the validity of results, accuracy, reliability, and compliance with industry standards.
• Lead and participate in test case reviews with Business, Developers, other team members
• Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activities
• Ensure that user expectations are met during the testing process
• Design, develop and execute automation scripts using open source tools
• When a product does not perform within specifications, reporting defects to programmers while identifying and recommending solutions, improvements, and updates.
• Identifies, logs, and recreates error codes, bugs, and defects.
• Draft quality assurance policies and procedures
• Investigate production issues
• Conducts testing to ensure products perform according to product requirements and within established guidelines.

• Exercises judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
• Perform various types of testing like sanity, functional, exploratory, integration, and system testing to ensure that the product delivered is of high quality.
• Support the Planning of test schedules in accordance with project scope/delivery dates and ensure that the timelines are adhered to without fail.
• Have very good knowledge of SDLC and STLC life cycles and working knowledge in agile.
• Work as part of cross-functional, passionate agile project teams to ensure quality is driven into the heart of the development process from requirements definition through to delivery.
• Contributing toward predictable delivery of quality releases.
• Be meticulous about documentation and maintaining a robust log of all test cases and test results.
• Very good at manual testing of web and windows based applications, web services testing, and integration testing of a complex system, iOS and Android applications.
• Defect Tracking and Reporting of bugs to developers so as to fix it and follow-ups.
• Lesson Learnt documents (based on testing inputs from the previous project)
• Suggestion Documents (to improve software quality)
• Leads test processes and delivers results to necessary stakeholders.
• Reviews changes or upgrades to existing tests, tools, and testing protocols.
• Good to have knowledge over Stockbroking applications, financial and capital market domain.

Desired Technical Skills and Experience

• Experience with Web Applications, iOS, and Android Applications.
• Passionate about understanding the application end to end.
• Effective communication skills to interact with internal stakeholders.
• Experience with Agile/Waterfall methodologies.
• Adaptable to the current requirement.
• High-level problem-solving skills, and the ability to project manage Knowledge of defect management process
• Strong understanding of software concepts and ability to quickly grasp new products and technologies.

• Lead and manage a team that:
• Reviews and refines software requirements.
• Drafts and executes test plans and test cases.
• Identifies and drafts steps to reproduce defects utilizing our defect tracking system, JIRA.
• Enters and tracks defects to closure.
• Utilizes testing tools to increase the effectiveness of testing.
• Maintains test environments that mimic our production systems.
• Maintains and updates Selenium driven UI automation test cases.
• Maintains and updates ReadyAPI API automation test cases.
• Maintains and updates manual test cases.
• Maintains and updates JMeter performance/load test cases.
• Coach, mentor, and assist the team in performing their duties as needed.
• Provide formal QA approval and reporting for each release.
• Operate within the SAFe Agile methodology.
• Coordinate with other QA teams across the company.

• Experience leading a SQA or Software Development team
• Experience managing projects and processes cross-functionally
• Comfortable working in a continually changing and dynamic environment and driving top issues to resolution
• Proven track record of attracting, hiring, motivating and developing the best quality-minded individuals
• Excellent cross-functional communication and influencing skills
• In-depth knowledge and experience in one or more of the following technologies: Java, Python, Selenium, JMeter, ReadyAPI
• Automation planning, execution, and triage for projects on multiple Platforms.
• Excellent presentation skills, distilling complex analysis and concepts into concise business-focused takeaways
• In-depth knowledge and experience in identity management including OpenID Connect, SAML2, OAuth2, and SCIM.
• In-depth knowledge and experience of application security testing.
• Unix command line scripting skills

About Us:

Aakash EduTech Pvt. Ltd. (AEPL) is the digital learning arm of Aakash Education Services Ltd. (AESL). AEPL is a rock solid team of 800+ passionate individuals within 2 strong online learning brand names, under its umbrella:

Aakash Digital(digital.aakash.ac.in) geography access to education in the test-prep segment by removing barriers of geography, income, safety or time. Our unique digital offerings i.e. Aakash Live - live online classes, Aakash iTutor - recorded video lectures and Aakash Practest - integrated test series facilitate right guidance to students preparing for competitive exams from the safety and comfort of their homes. We have a reach in almost 7+ countries and 750+ cities world-wide.

Meritnation  (http://www.meritnation.com/">www.meritnation.com) is India’s leading online learning platform for school students with over 2.0 crore enrolled students across CBSE, ICSE and leading state boards. It's an online tuition company with course offerings for class 1 to 12. The company has subscribers PAN India as well as in the Mid-East and has offices across 15 cities in India. Meritnation was a pioneer in Live Classes with more than 80,000+ hours of live class delivered on the platform till date.

What We Are Looking For:

- The candidate should have experience in manual testing, GUI testing, functional testing and load testing.

- knowledge of automated testing tools preferable open source like JMeter, Selenium etc.

- The candidate should have experience in writing and executing test cases.

- Good understanding of SDLC and STLC concepts; Ability to effectively prioritize assignments as well as unplanned issues.

- Knowledge of web-based applications is a must.

- Defect reporting, coordination with development team, defect logging, defect tracking tools like Bugzilla or Bugnet, bug reporting etc

- Completing assigned work with proper focus on design aspects, modular, coding standards, process adherence, optimized and readable code and minimal rework required

- Ability to work productively in a dynamic, priority shifting, deadline-driven environment with no/minimum supervision

- Self-initiative in reading and learning about new technologies, other modules of the application, newer and better ways of doing things

- Good teamwork, positive and constructive collaboration and communication with everybody

Required Skills

Both Manual and Automation testing(Basic Knowledge ) cover functional and performance testing.

Qualifications: Bachelor degree or Equivalent

• Play an active role in QA activities during all phases of our product development from requirements elaboration, design/development, test and deployment
• Responsible for manual and automated testing activities for a multi-tier web-based platform. This includes writing test cases based on business requirements, test data creation, creating and maintaining automated scripts to test front-end, APIs and database changes
• Creating and maintaining all QA related documentation throughout the process
• Execution of the test phase consistent with the overall project schedules
• Direct interaction/facilitation of bug resolution with engineering teams
• Work effectively within a dynamic team environment following standards and best practices and ensure the highest level of quality
• Ability to understand the technical architecture, its implementation, design patterns, data representations and infrastructure powering these systems.
• Work closely with software devs and solution architects to understand the tech stack, design and accordingly build the test frameworks, setup infra and build execution models to drive the end-to-end quality efforts of backend systems/services and client apps
• Debug test failures, read through logs, network calls and make preliminary root cause analysis of defect/bug
• Develop test plans, test cases, test design documents with good coverage and optimised testing approach
• Should be able to identify the test cases qualifying for test automation
• Use of tracking tools to log, manage, resolve and report on bugs

Candidate requirements

Must have

• At least 2-4 years of experience in manual and automated quality assurance
• Experience on automation tools like TestNG, Selenium (Grid, parallel, SauceLabs), Mocha_Chai frontend or backend test automation
• Good understanding of REST APIs and a solid experience in testing them
• Tools like Jira, Asana or similar bug tracking tool, Confluence - Wiki, Jenkins - CI tool
• Knowledge of different browsers and cross-platform operating systems
• Keen eye for design and functional UX
• Strong in writing SQL queries
• Proficiency in git
• Ability to develop or maintain applications for test automation
• Excellent written and oral communication and organisational skills with the ability to work within a growing company with increasing needs
• Proven track record of ability to handle time-critical projects

Good to have

• Experience in working in a distributed micro-service environment
• Proficiency in Python, JavaScript or any other programming language
• Hands-on experience in testing frameworks like Pytest or testing platforms like BrowserStack
• Built APIs at some point and practical knowledge on working with them
• Good understanding of CI/CD
• Ability to independently manage test environment deployments and handle issues around it
• Performed load testing of API endpoints
• Should have built an API test automation framework from scratch and maintained it
• Knowledge of cloud platforms like AWS, Azure
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / IT / Computer Applications