Sr. Automation Tester

As a Software Developer in Test (SDET), you will work closely with the product management and the developer team to deliver top quality products that meet and exceed the functional and non-functional requirements.

Career Growth Opportunities:

Project ownership

Opportunity to work with highly skilled team members Commitment:

Full Time Education Requirements: MCA or Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent from Premiere Technology Institution (ex. IIT)

Experience Requirements:

3-5 Years of Experience Required

Skills and Expertise:

Min. 3 years of experience in testing

Solid programming skills and grasp of OOPS concepts preferably in Java

Experience working with NoSQL and non relational databases

Experience in maintaining CI/CD pipeline and final software delivery in production environments (AWS) Expertise in API test automation using frameworks such as Rest assured

Comfortable with working in Linux systems

Prior experience in preparing test artifacts such as reports, test cases etc

Experience working BDD style (Cucumber preferred)

Prior experience in security is a plus

Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Ability to work well in a challenging and fast paced environment

Must have strong analytical and reasoning skills

Should be able to understand the core business and correlate with features to be developed

Passionate in current and new trends in the world of software testing

Role and Responsibilities:

Requirement analysis and preparation of the test plans.

Conduct QA of the application builds received from the dev team. The testing would include the specific module as well as the system integration.

Raise and track Jira tickets to closure. Promote builds to UAT, Staging and ultimately to production.

Work with the product management team on the acceptance testing during the closed beta / internal testing phase.

Monitor the health and performance of the application after release to the production environment. Work with other stakeholders to increase the rollout %.

Develop test frameworks for API and frontend testing

Learn and implement new technologies to continually improve product quality

• Design and develop a framework, internal tools, and scripts for testing large-scale data systems, machine learning algorithms, and responsive User Interfaces.
• Create repeatability in testing through automation
• Participate in code reviews, design reviews, architecture discussions.
• Performance testing and benchmarking of Bidgely product suites
• Driving the adoption of these best practices around coding, design, quality, performance in your team.
• Lead the team on all technical aspects and own the quality of your teams’ deliverables
• Understand requirements, design exhaustive test scenarios, execute manual and automated 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.
• Debug automation, product, deployment, and production issues and work with stakeholders/team on quick resolution
• Deliver a high-quality robust product in a fast-paced start-up environment.
• Collaborate with the engineering team and product management to elicit & understand their requirements and develop potential solutions.
• Stay current with the latest technology, tools, and methodologies; share knowledge by clearly articulating results and ideas to key decision-makers.

•  BS/MS in Computer Science, Electrical or equivalent
• 6+ years of experience in designing automation frameworks, tools
• Strong object-oriented design skills, knowledge of design patterns, and an uncanny ability to
  design intuitive module and class-level interfaces
• Deep understanding of design patterns, optimizations
• Experience leading multi-engineer projects and mentoring junior engineers
• Good understanding of data structures and algorithms and their space and time complexities. Strong technical aptitude and a good knowledge of CS fundamentals
• Experience in non-functional testing and performance benchmarking
• Knowledge of Test-Driven Development &  implementing CD/CD
• Strong hands-on and practical working experience with at least one programming language: Java/Python/C++
• Strong analytical, problem solving, and debugging skills.
• Strong experience in API automation using Jersey/Rest Assured.
• Fluency in automation tools, frameworks such as Selenium, TestNG, Jmeter, JUnit, Jersey, etc...
• Exposure to distributed systems or web applications
• Good in RDBMS or any of the large data systems such as Hadoop, Cassandra, etc.
• Hands-on experience with build tools like Maven/Gradle &  Jenkins
• Experience in testing on various browsers and devices.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Candidate should have 5-7 years of experience in both manual and automation testing. Candidate should have atleast one year experience as a lead of a QA team.

Candidate should be self motivated and passionate and should have clear understanding of agile/scrum processes

GaragePlug Inc

GaragePlug is one of the fastest-growing Automotive tech startups working towards revolutionizing the automotive aftermarket industry with strong state-of-the-art technologies.

Position: QA Lead

As we plan to grow, we have many challenges to solve. Some of the new features and products that are already in the pipeline include advanced analytics, search, reporting etc., to name a few. With growing complexity, we are open to using other tools and technologies as needed. We are looking for a talented and motivated engineer to join our fleet and help us solve real-world problems in this exciting field. Join us and share the dream of building the next generation online platform for the Auto industry.

Experience: 4+ years of relevant experience.

What you’ll do:

• QA for mobile, web, and back-end services—especially ones as design-oriented
• Good at test & defect documentation
• Work with bug tracking software, preferably JIRA is required
• Test using various network monitoring tools like Charles, Postman and performance monitoring tools etc
• Develop and implement QA methodology and practices, within SDLC
• Translate business requirements into test cases
• Building detailed test cases
• Developing automation test scripts for mobile applications.
• Conduct usability tests, and an ability to empathize with users’ unique perspectives
• Analyze and evaluate functional and technical requirements to determine the scope of the functionality to be covered by testing.

What you have:

• High level of drive, initiative and self-motivation
• Exposure to automation tools with some programming knowledge
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to take internal and external stakeholders along
• Understanding of Technology and User Experience
• Love for simplifying
• Growth Mindset
• Willingness to experiment and improve continuously**

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Responsibilities

Providing a strong leadership for the Tech QA department to move to greater heights of value and maturity.

Develop functional and performance test plans and cases for internal and external facing software systems

Driving tools and frameworks for functional automation and performance  testing

Participate in required activities and validation gates running up to a General Availability release

Building a strong, highly motivated, vibrant, innovative and highly engaged teams

Building a strong competence in project management, process management and QA practices

Responsible for the delivery from the project management, improvements in software engineering practices, process adoption and quality aspects of all the releases of products and features.

Responsible for all the projects managed and stakeholder satisfaction

Responsible for the quality of the deliverables signed off by the QA teams

Responsible for building a  strong knowledge base in product, domain and functional areas

High level of maturity in delivery management in terms of project planning, execution, quality and stakeholder expectation management

Active participation and contributions in organization building activities across divisions

Influence, collaborate and communicate effectively with various leaders

Work in fast paced development environment, interacting with product owners, developers and other stakeholders across the globe

Demonstrates a product engineering mindset, ability to strategize and implement the vision & mission

Ideal Candidate Profile

7 to 15 years of product QA experience, with at least 2 years of experience as QEM or EM

7+ years of experience as a SDET/automation engineer

5+ years of experience Testing software for mobile applications/ web applications on devices(Android/IPhone)

Bachelor's or Master's degree in engineering, or equivalent technical domain

Preferably with product based startup experience

Should have built automation competency using selenium, appium, web services and performance testing

Knowledge and application of concepts such as continuous integration, continuous build, dev ops.

Shows creativity and initiative to improve Test coverage and effectiveness.

Strong competency in project management, process management, Product quality management, people management and delivery management skills and experience

Good understanding and experience in working product development organisations, B2C product line, and mobile products.

Ability to mentor teams and guide them to identify http://solutions.good/">solutions.

http://solutions.good/">Good working experience in test strategies, planning, estimation and test automations

Strong people management skills including building, enabling, managing, retaining highly talented team of engineers with varied level of experiences and expertise

Excellent  communication – oral, written, presentation and interpersonal skills

Good leader who believes in influencing, collaboration and teamwork

High in energy, confidence ability to adapt to fast pace development

Shows creativity and initiative to improve Test coverage and effectiveness.

Experience running teams using the Scrum method for agile software development preferred

• 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.