Appium Test Engineer

Skill: Test Engineer (Appium)

Experience: 8+ Years

Location: Hyderabad

Work Mode: 5 Days in Office

Notice: Immediate Joiner (OR) 15 Day Less, Serving Notice

Top 3 technical skills that are required for the role:

1. Mobile Application Testing

2. Test Automation leveraging Appium, SPOCK

3. Java, Groovy Scripting

Education Required: B.Tech/MCA

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned

• Guide project test engineering decisions and direction.
• Work closely with developers and Systems Engineers to understand the specifics of the Application, architecture & operating platform on which the Application would run and due considerations
• Read, analyze, understand product requirements, support requirements reviews.
• Take the high-level requirements and independently complete test development per the defined processes.
• Design and execute project test plans and strategies.
• Determine and onboard application testing technologies and decisions.
• Design and execute tests using automated test tools, as well as Manual test development process, for the verification of software requirements.
• Learn and understand software standards for medical devices, ex. IEC62304.
• Support test infrastructure set up and test tool development, such as test tools, stubs, Hardware/Firmware simulators and emulators.
• Establish and maintain traceability from software requirements to verification test design and implementation.
• Participate in technical reviews of software requirements and peer verification test development.
• Interface with software development engineers on software implementation.
• Assist development team on debugging and solving issues discovered during test.
• Prepare, review, submit, and maintain project/product documentation.
• Provide hands-on leadership, coaching, mentoring, and software engineering best practices to junior software engineers.
• Develop reusable patterns and encourage innovation that will increase team velocity.
• Maintain, improve and design new software tools.
• Work under general direction and collaboratively with internal and external partners.

Required Knowledge and Experience

• Required: Bachelor of Engineering or Bachelor of Technology in Computer Sciences, Bio Technology, Bio-Medical, Electronics or Electrical Engineering from a premium institute.
• Preferred: Maters in Engineering or Masters in Technology Computer Sciences, Bio Technology, Bio-Medical, Electronics or Electrical Engineering from a premium institute.
• 8+ years of Software industry experience.
• Proficiency with one or more of the following programming languages: Java, Groovy, Python, or any equivalent
• 5+ years of experience in Software/Test framework Design & architecture
• Experience using BDD test tools frameworks like SPOCK, Spec Flow, Cucumber, or Gherkin is an advantage
• Experience developing manual/automated tests for mobile and web applications. Also, Embedded Java is good to have.
• Experience using tools like Appium, Selenium.
• Familiarity and understanding of one or more of the following tools: Android Studio, IntelliJ, Eclipse, Microsoft Test Manager, Katalon Studio.
• Familiarity and understanding of the following operating systems: Android
• Familiarity with both Agile and Waterfall software development methods.
• Ability to work on cross-functional project teams comprised of software verification and development engineers, system engineers, human factor engineers and quality engineers.
• Ability to test, analyze, and solve technical problems.
• Strong written and verbal communication.
• Design/test experience working with regulated medical devices, preferred.
• Experience working within a regulated environment is preferred.
• Local language test experience is preferred.
• Experience with software version control tools is preferred.
• Quality focus, willingness to learn, versatility, and adaptability.

Minimum Qualification

• Bachelor's degree in electronic / software engineering or equivalent with 8 to 12 years of application testing experience, preferably mobile application.
• Experience in understanding requirements and designing the tests as per the requirements
• Experience in creating test plan, defining test strategy, execution of manual and automation testing for mobile applications in Android and reporting test results
• Experience in reporting defects in a defect logging system, documenting clearly the steps to reproduce. Manage the defects until its closure
• Experience in test automation using Appium, Selenium, UI Automator
• Demonstrated excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience with configuration management tools and best practices (GIT, SVN, etc.).
• Good understanding of Continuous Integration environments (Jenkins/Bamboo)

Nice to Haves

• Experience with medical device regulations and standards, such as IEC 62304, for medical device software development lifecycle.
• Understanding of basic agile tools (Rally, VersionOne, Jira)