Software Test Engineer

Looking for energetic, creative hands-on Web Application Software Test Engineer (who can work on both Manual and automation activities, Blend) with 3-6 years of experience to be part of a fast

paced, dynamic agile product engineering and quality solutions squad. Our ways of working help to reduce time to market and maximize value delivered through accelerating the product life cycle delivery and deployment.

As a Software Test Engineer, you would work with the solutions architecture team, application development team to develop test automation scripts ingredients to enable flawless high-quality solutions for the platforms and applications. Industry standard automation tools and practices shall be employed, maintaining the test cases in test case repository, automated test reports, test script review, test case coverage, etc. You will work closely with the solutions engineering team to ensure complete coverage of test cases and automation of continuous integration and deployment.

You shall also have demonstrated very good experience with agile, scrum, CI/CD, DevOps, leading architecture / design reviews and system engineering / administration for any commercial off the shelf tools in developer productivity, build & release management space.

Position Accountability

• Deliver customer value in the form of acting as gatekeeper of quality for all our software components and services.
• Being a member of a Product Engineering team, ensure the product delivered is of highest quality.
• Help the team to imbibe Agile values and principles effectively.
• Work with cross functional teams within engineering, usability team, product management, operations team, and customer support engineers to design and support building high quality solutions.
• Develop the best automation solutions based on the product requirements.
• Contribute to Agile QA plannings to define the sprint scope.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (developers, product marketing managers) to find ways on how automation can improve the workflow.
• Take part in brainstorms to come up with new ideas and designs that improve existing features.
• Cooperate with a development team to formulate the QA tasks and explain post-release user feedback.
• Develop a thorough understanding of the domain and influence the architecture roadmap.
• Total ownership of end-to-end quality of what the team builds; consider flawless customer experience as success criteria Should understand the value of commitments to delivery made by the cross functional agile team.
• As a member of technical staff, you'll have the opportunity to grow as a software engineer in a culture of technical excellence, high team performance and impeccable work ethics.

Job Description

• Analyze requirements, produce accurate & excellent coverage of test cases, and curate the test cases in test case repository.
• Write test specification, test plans, test scenarios, test cases, bug reports, and other test documents. Execute test cases and review artifacts created by others.
• Prepare and execute automation test cases and test scripts of complicated applications with understanding of business requirement and adapting the testing with the requirement.
• Contribute towards building a strong product engineering culture as the team builds new product capabilities in modern technology.
• Translate functional requirements into test cases with a user's perspective in mind.
• Identify specific cases that should be automated and discuss them with QA engineers.
• Write clean, high-quality scripts that test product functionality automatically.
• Conduct various tests covering the entire stack - systems, networks, applications, APIs, databases etc.
• Execute automation scripts on different browsers/environments & report defects/results to the team.
• Log and document errors in the Jira tracking system.
• Identify defects and drive issues to resolution and closure.
• Should understand fundamentals of iterative product development, and constantly seek ways to improve our processes for increased agility and quality.
• Be well versed in the latest development methodologies like Agile, Scrum, DevOps and test-driven development.
• Participate and contribute to scrum meetings i.e., daily stand-up, sprint planning, readouts and retrospectives
• Adhere to DOD (story definition of done) as part of the sprint, functional testing, code reviews, documentation and adhere to best coding practices.
• Perform peer code reviews in order to ensure automation scripts are of highest quality standards
• Master the domain knowledge in the area of assignment
• Volunteer for work in the backlog and commit to fortify quality delivery; Coordinate efforts across the team to ensure completion and effectiveness
• Work collaboratively across the Technology and Product organizations to ensure alignment towards business goals
• Collaborating with client Management/Executives, Developers, and Testers in developing, implementing and providing status reports around automated test scenarios and impact

Technical Experience

• Must have good knowledge and experience in web-based applications and experience in mobile based application.
• Hands on experience with responsive and cross browser testing.
• Working knowledge of test management software Jira.
• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes.
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process is a plus.
• Strong knowledge and experience in Object Oriented Programming, Analysis and Design concepts.
• Utilization of different automation frameworks like Page Objects framework, Keyword Driven framework, Data Driven framework and Hybrid framework using Java, JavaScript/TypeScript or any other language.
• Strong skills in memory management and exception handling, knowledge in asynchronous programming practices.
• Hands-on role with applied experience working with test tools e.g., WebdriverIO, Cypress, Appium, Selenium Webdriver, JMeter and well versed through personally applied knowledge in the following.
• Automation Frameworks, Page Object Model, Data Driven Tests, Keyword Driven Tests and Hybrid framework.
• Good command in coding, debugging and maintenance of scripts using Type Script, Java and any other language.
• Use WebdriverIO, Cypress and Selenium Web driver tool to develop automated testing scenarios for Web and Mobile applications. (Any one of the tool usage experiences is MUST)
• Hands on experience in API Testing using Postman.
• Good command in working with version control tools like Git (we use BitBucket)
• Execute automation scripts with different browsers and environments.
• Experience in NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Cassandra).
• Complete understanding from applied experience of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and QA Methodology. Adhering to development standards,
• software development lifecycle processes.
• Must be able to develop new automated testing scenarios and adapt existing scenarios in a rapid development environment. Good hands-on Jenkins which can help to practice CICD and DevOps
• Independently able to decide on strategy, design, develop and implement enterprise grade automation framework.

Academic and Professional Expertise

• Holds an academic degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Computational Science.
• 2.3 to 6 years of working experience as an automation engineer