software development engineer at test ( SDET ) CONTRACT

Role Objective: 

Ensure that our software products are of the highest quality by utilizing manual and automated testing techniques, excellent communication, and logical reasoning skills. 

Roles & Responsibilities: 

Test Strategy and Planning: 

• Design, develop, and implement comprehensive test strategies and plans. 
• Collaborate with product managers and developers to understand product requirements and define appropriate test scenarios. 

Test Development and Execution: 

• Develop detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test cases. 
• Execute manual test cases and analyze results. 
• Set up, maintain, and operate test automation frameworks. 
• Detect and report software defects using a bug tracking system, and work with the development team to troubleshoot, debug, and resolve them. 

Continuous Improvement: 

• Review and analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of existing systems and develop strategies for improving or further leveraging these systems. 
• Research new testing tools, methodologies, and best practices and share findings with the team. 

Collaboration & Communication: 

• Clearly and concisely report defects and other testing outcomes to developers and other stakeholders. 
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration and quality throughout the software development lifecycle. 
• Facilitate and participate in QA reviews and updates to ensure consistency and compliance with standards. 

Documentation & Reporting: 

• Maintain detailed documentation of test cases, test scripts, and test outcomes. 
• Produce regular reports on test status, anomalies, risks, and validation results. 

Mentoring & Coaching: 

• Assist junior QA team members and offer guidance as needed. 
• Share knowledge on advanced testing techniques, tools, and best practices. 

Staying Updated: 

• Stay updated with the latest industry trends, tools, and technologies in QA testing. 
• Attend training and workshops to continually improve your QA skills. 

Required Skills & Qualifications: 

• 1-3 years of experience in a similar role in a software services environment. 
• Proficient in manual testing techniques, including black box, white box, and grey box testing. 
• Experience in setting up and using automation testing tools such as Selenium, JUnit, TestNG, etc. 
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written. 
• Strong logical reasoning and problem-solving skills. 
• Familiarity with bug tracking tools like Azure DevOps, JIRA, etc. 
• Knowledge of software development lifecycle (SDLC) and agile methodologies. 
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Certifications in Quality Assurance, such as ISTQB or CSTE. 
• Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) tools like Jenkins or Travis CI. 
• Familiarity with code versioning tools like Git. 

Key Skills required (Items in Bold are mandatory keywords) :

1. In depth, hands-on knowledge of STLC and Automation Testing
2. Creating Test Cases and Test Case execution
3. Strong experience with Test Planning
4. Strong production experience with testing tools - Jira, Zing and other popular tools
5. Experience in Core Java, JavaScript
6. Industry experience with Java Selenium, Appium and other test automation tools
7. Experience with Validation, Functional, Cross Browser and UI Testing
8. Strong understanding of payment gateway testing and processes
9. Hands on experience in testing Web and Mobile Applications
10. Experience with cloud testing tools like BrowserStack and/or pCloudy
11. Experience with API testing using Postman

This position is for a tester with strong coding skills who likes challenges - someone who is constantly striving for excellence in software test automation.

Responsibilities include:

• Develop automated test cases on a day-to-day basis
• Gather and prioritize user requirements, feed these requirements into overall Automation Framework requirements and test plans
• Train team members on tool use and test automation tools, practices, techniques and best practices
• Communicate cross-functionally throughout the engineering organization
• Continuously monitor and boost test coverage across the product

Minimum Job Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or better in CS or related field, with 3+ years experience in software test.
• Exposure to best practices in SQA including code reviews, debugging, troubleshooting and CI processes
• Experience in backend Testing using Java, API-Testing,Rest assured ,and Performance testing using Jmeter
• Excellent communications and technical presentation skills
• Initiative to research and build solutions to tough problems in domains like Flash, OpenGL, WebGL where off-the-shelf automation tools might not be available
• Some experience/comfort with working in a Linux/Unix environment
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, troubleshooting skills.

Preferred (Bonus) Qualifications:

• Knowledge of current build and test automation tools and processes, such as JUnit/TestNG, Maven, Jenkins, Mockito, JBehave, Git, etc
• Experience with whitebox testing, code reviews, SDK testing
• Experience with performance testing, stress testing, and advanced aspects of system testing automation.
• Knowledge of at least one scripting language (Python, Bash, Ruby or comparable).

What You’ll Do

• Manual and automated testing of the various software components that power our robots, cloud services, and mobile and Web applications.

• “Own” the feature or product you test and be the testing expert for your features and products.

• Gather technical requirements, understand functional specification, participate in software design reviews, and validate that a feature or product meets our customers’ requirements.

• Write test plans, execute test cases, and report bugs.
• Your bug reports should describe, in detail, the conditions under which a bug manifests and how it can be reproduced, the resulting product behavior, and the extent of the bug’s impact on our customers.

• Automate software testing to the extent possible to make it more efficient.

• Reproduce and debug customer issues escalated from the field.


What We’re Looking For 

• Bachelor's or master’s degree in CS/CE/IT/EE/E&TC or a related field.
• 2+ years of experience in software testing, particularly in Web, mobile, cloud, and embedded systems applications.
• Experience in writing software test plans, executing test cases, and managing the end-to-end bug life cycle.
• Strong analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills, and attention to detail.
• Java and Python programming skills.
• Familiarity with Android and iOS mobile app testing automation using Appium, and Android and iOS emulators.
• Ability to work well in a team, including remote team members in overseas locations.
• Excellent written and oral English communication skills.

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with tools such as Eclipse (IDE), TestNG, Maven, Selenium, and JIRA.

Experience Level – 3 to 5 years

Responsibilities

• Review and analyze system specifications.
• Collaborate with team to develop effective strategies and test plans.
• Execute test cases (manual or automated) and analyze results.
• Evaluate product code according to specifications.
• Create logs to document testing phases and defects.
• Report bugs and errors to development teams
• Help troubleshoot issues.
• Conduct post-release/ post-implementation testing.
• Work with cross-functional teams to ensure quality throughout the software development lifecycle.

Skillset

• Familiarity with Agile frameworks
• Ability to document and troubleshoot errors.
• Working knowledge SQL
• Excellent communication skills
• Attention to detail.
• Analytical mind and problem-solving aptitude
• Strong organizational skills

Must Have

• Experience in UFT
• Jmeter is an added advantage.
• API testing experience
• ISTQB Certification