Software Test Engineer

Job description

• Software Test engineer responsibilities include maintaining best practices of software development, designing and implementing tests, debugging and defining corrective actions
• It must be handling functional and Integration Testing with automation and manual, developing and executing exploratory and automated tests to ensure product and solutions quality
• The ideal candidate will be responsible for Test Management and Automation for continuous Testing, Continuous Performance to ensure software runs smoothly

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with development and systems teams to provide troubleshooting support for application issues.
• Work alongside the Interactive Applications Backend Development team to test and run custom applications.
• Build Functional testing tools and improve existing automation platforms
• Create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases.
• Estimate, prioritise, 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.
• 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.

Technical Requirements

• Experience developing test plans, test cases, assessing risk, and filing appropriate defects
• Excellent knowledge of software testing methodologies & practices
• Ability to triage problems, prioritise accordingly, and propose a resolution
• Experience testing mobile applications.
• You study and use Java and Scala libraries (for example, Selenium, Apache Commons, HttpBing, jsoup, XML libraries, and JSON libraries) for accessing web elements, XML, JSON, SVN, Jenkins, and data-bases (NoSQL, SQL).
• Knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, DOM, SVN/Git, Maven, SBT, and Jenkins.
• Demonstrate the capability to work with REST API testing and automation and have performance testing experience (JMeter, Gatling).
• Software scripting skills (e.g. Python, JavaScript, Perl)
• Experience developing automated software tests
• Proven work experience in Test Automation and Automation Testing.
• Knowledge of Software QA methodologies, Tools and Processes.
• Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test cases.
• Hands on Experience of Selenium and Robot Framework
• Knowledge of Continuous Testing, DevOps and Test Management
• Well versed with JIRA, Google Sheets, Excel.

Professional Attributes -

• Excellent communication skills
• Attention to details
• Analytical mind and Problem Solving Aptitude
• Strong Organisational skills
• Visual Thinking