Job Description

DESCRIPTION

Job summary
The ideal candidate is clearly passionate about new opportunities and has a demonstrable track record of success in delivering scalable test infrastructure and products. A commitment to teamwork, hustle, and strong communication skills (to both business and technical partners) are absolute requirements. Creating reliable, scalable, and high-performance products requires exceptional technical expertise, a sound understanding of the fundamentals of computer science, and experience building large-scale distributed systems. This person has thrived and succeeded in delivering high quality technology products/services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift fast.

Job locations: Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad

Key job responsibilities

• Work with a team of quality assurance engineers testing a software product/application & ensure high quality delivery.
• Engage with TPMs (Technical Program Managers) & PMs (Product Managers) to understand the requirements, design and come up with test strategies.
• Partner with development team to triage, root cause and resolve the issues
• Use software engineering & QA best practices including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Design/build automation from scratch and build automated tests using existing tools and frameworks to expose defects in product code
• Work in a test-driven development and establish test infrastructures as appropriate
• Interact and coordinate test activities within teams. Communicate with both internal teams & management on requirements and status updates.

• Create Test Strategies/Test plans for the multiple features of a product/application covering all product behavior that includes functional & nonfunctional aspects
• Identify/Surface product deviations & bugs, own triages with Developers/PMs and track closure
• Contribute to test automation to eliminate/reduce manual efforts by working closely with SDETs from the same team or other teams
• Use test/bug tracking tools and document all test status reports along with the QA metrics
• Coordinate with multiple teams for daily testing activities and best practices & knowledge sharing
• Participate in all bug triage, QA strategy/Test plan, design review meetings and voice the QA status/blockers proactively with impact & arrive at clear next steps

• Bachelor's or Master's or equivalent degree in engineering.
• Ability to write test plan for the feature, execute and maintain.
• Knowledge of Test Case Enumeration and Test Data Generation.
• Strong knowledge of QA methodology and tools.
• Ability to understand technical specifications and analyze log files.
• Knowledge in Java/Perl/Python based automation.
• Knowledge in testing on Win and Mac OS.
• Knowledge of UNIX environment and Shell scripting is desired.
• Good coding knowledge and problem-solving skill (for automation).
• Knowledge with testing methodologies such as regression, automation, monkey testing, etc.

• Familiarity with at least one programing language such as Java, C#, JavaScript, JSON, Python, Ruby, PERL
• Understanding of software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including agile software development, use of software IDEs, use of source control management
• The ability to prioritize and perform multiple testing tasks simultaneously
• Strong problem solving and trouble shooting skills with the ability to come up with creative solutions to impossible-to-solve problems