Testing (API)

Job Title: SDET

Location: Chennai (Work From Office – Let’s ensure quality together!)

Experience: 1-4 years (You’ve tested software and squashed bugs like a pro!)

About the Company:

F22 Labs is a startup software studio based out of Chennai. We are the rocket fuel for other startups across the world, powering them with extremely high-quality software. We help entrepreneurs build their vision into beautiful software products (web/mobile). If you're into creating beautiful software and solving real problems, you’ll fit right in with us. Let’s make cool things happen!

Position Overview:

Are you passionate about ensuring the quality of software through meticulous testing? As a QA Tester at F22 Labs, you'll be responsible for ensuring that our mobile and web applications meet the highest standards. You’ll play an essential role in functional, regression, integration, and UAT testing, collaborating with an awesome team of developers and designers. Ready to bring your testing expertise and make sure our software runs perfectly? Let’s do this!

Key Responsibilities:

• Test Case Design: Write effective and thorough test cases to cover all functional, regression, integration, and UAT scenarios (because we leave no stone unturned!).
• Bug Reporting & Tracking: Use tools like JIRA and ClickUp to report and track defects, ensuring no bug goes unnoticed (we don’t want any sneaky bugs hanging around!).
• Requirement Analysis: Dive deep into business and functional requirements to create relevant and precise test scenarios (understanding the big picture is key).
• Manual Testing: Perform functional and non-functional manual testing on both web and mobile applications (keeping everything in top shape).
• Basic Automation Exposure: Contribute to automation testing tasks, supporting the development of automation scripts (a little automation goes a long way).
• SQL Testing: Use your basic SQL knowledge to validate the data integrity of our systems (let’s keep the data clean and precise).
• Collaboration: Work closely with the product and development teams to ensure smooth workflows and quality releases (teamwork makes the dream work).
• Problem-Solving: Identify, analyze, and help fix defects efficiently (problem-solving skills are your superpower).

Mandatory Skills:

• Manual Testing: Strong experience with manual testing, both functional and non-functional.
• Bug Tracking Tools: Experience using JIRA, ClickUp, or similar tools to log and track bugs.
• SQL Knowledge: Basic knowledge of SQL for database testing (because sometimes the database needs a little TLC).
• Requirement Analysis & Test Planning: Ability to analyze requirements and create test plans based on those (understanding the requirements is step one!).
• Agile & Scrum: Familiarity with Agile methodologies, working in fast-paced environments with iterative sprints.

Good to Have Skills (Bonus Points!):

• Basic Automation Knowledge: Experience with automation tools or frameworks (your first step into automation testing).
• Domain Knowledge: Experience in E-commerce and Hospitality (because understanding the domain helps you test smarter).
• Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills (because great communication leads to great collaboration).
• Problem-Solving Skills: Strong analytical thinking and the ability to uncover root causes of issues.

Why Join Us (Perks & Benefits):

• Health insurance (your well-being is our priority).
• Flexible work timings (because we all work best when we’re in our groove).
• Competitive compensation (we know your value and reward it).
• Opportunities for rapid career growth (we love growing together).
• Fun, collaborative team environment (because work is more fun when you love what you do).
• Continuous learning and development (we support you as you level up your skills).

Selection Process:

• Online Assessment
• 1-2 rounds of interviews (let’s talk about your testing skills and how you handle bugs!).

If you're looking to join a fast-paced, innovative team where quality matters and every release is a new opportunity to shine, we want you on board! Apply today and let’s build amazing software together!

We are looking for a Senior Quality Assurance (QA) engineer to develop and execute exploratory and automated tests to ensure product quality.

QA engineer responsibilities include:

Designing and implementing tests, debugging and defining corrective actions. You will also review system requirements and track quality assurance metrics (e.g. defect densities and open defect counts.)

The QA technician role plays an important part in our company’s product development process. Our ideal candidate will be responsible for conducting tests before product launches to ensure software runs smoothly and meets client needs, while being cost-effective. If you hold an engineering background and enjoy providing end-to-end solutions to software quality problems, we would like to meet you.

Ultimately, you should monitor all stages of software development to identify and resolve system malfunctions to meet quality standards.

Responsibilities

• 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
• knowledge of Selenium/Appium for web and app automation in android and IOS
• 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 manual and automated testing tools
• Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting
• Experience of 3 years to 8 years
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process
• Experience with performance and/or security testing is a plus.

1. Building up and leading the Testing Team to the success of project
2. Defining the scope of testing within the context of each release / delivery
3. Deploying and managing resources for testing
4. Applying the appropriate test measurements and metrics in the product and the Testing Team
5. Planning, deploying and managing the testing effort for any given engagement.

• 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

• 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