QA Engineer

The Team:

The Quality Engineering team works in partnership with other Technology Functions and the Business to ensure quality delivery of our products. The team works in an Agile environment and is located globally. The team is independent in driving all decisions and is responsible for continuously improving customer experience, revenue growth and operations enablement through quick turn-around of development of our products with high quality.

The Impact:

As an Sr. Software Engineer, you will make a significant contribution in building solutions to test applications across Web/ Mobile/API/Services platforms. Your challenge will be reducing the time to market for products without compromising quality, by leveraging automation and innovation. You will use a wide range of technologies and have the opportunity to interact with different internal teams.

What's in it for you:

Working with a team of highly skilled, ambitious and result-oriented professionals.

• Using a wide range of cutting-edge technology to innovate while testing.
• An ever-challenging environment to hone your existing skills in Automation, Performance, service layer testing, SQL scripting etc.
• A great opportunity to think and execute like a developer while performing the role of QA.
• Being a part of an organization which values Culture of Urgency and Shift Left approaches.
• A plenty of skill building, knowledge sharing, and innovation opportunities.
• Building a fulfilling career with a global financial technology company.

Responsibilities:

• Develop automation scripts that meet organization standards and build reliable, reusable, and maintainable automated regression suites & test harness
• Leverage tools and frameworks to build automation scripts with quality code to simplify testing scenarios
• Design and develop test plans, test cases based upon functional and design specifications, execute test cases and analyze and report test results to the teams
• Focus on building efficient solutions for Web, Services/APIs, Database, mobile testing requirements.
• Participate actively in functional, system and regression testing activities
• Contributes towards identification, creation, execution, and automation of test scenarios with quality first mindset.
• To be the voice of quality within and outside of scrum teams. Ensuring quality throughout the SDLC process from requirement gathering to production release.
• Supports and Implements Quality Assurance Metrics architecture within Scrum Teams.
• Contributes towards execution ensuring adoption towards frequent prioritization, frequent changes, and quality releases.
• Independently implements in-sprint test automation and performance across team deliverables.
• Has detailed knowledge of QA and metrics architecture processes.
• Has detailed knowledge of the functioning, database, architecture, dependencies, and business use of the application/components that the scrum team is responsible for.
• Solve a range of routine problems and analyze possible solutions using standard procedures
• Solve problems with general oversight or interaction on routine work and with detailed instruction on new work assignments
• Independently reaches out to members outside of the immediate teams to help resolve problems that the team faces.
• Work independently and within own team
• Build internal and external working relationships
• Achieve personal objectives and contribute to the achievement of team objectives

What We're Looking For:

• 5+ years of experience in software testing or development with good understanding of  testing, coding and debugging procedures
• Strong experience in programming using Python.
• Experience in design and development of automated tests using automation tools (e.g. Selenium, Appium) with exposure in testing across the application layers (UI/Service/Data layers/Mobile)
• Experience in advising team to identify automatable test cases at different layers (UI, Services and Data layer tests). Ability to working with developers to build automation/performance friendly code is a plus.
• Experience in refactoring test automation/performance suites as necessary
• Experience working with SOAP and REST service and understanding of SOA architecture
• Experience of SQL/PL-SQL, writing SQL queries
• Exposure to Behavior Driven Development (BDD) practices and experience in Agile methodology is highly desirable
• Exposure to testing in CI, DevOps, rolling deployment/upgrade model is highly desirable
• Experience in developing Test Plans and Test Cases, engage in Exploratory Testing, creating and maintaining Defect Reports
• Demonstrate ability to explain complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Strong communication skills and ability to produce clear, concise and detailed documentation
• Excellent problem solving, analytical and technical troubleshooting skills
• Bachelor's or higher qualification in Computer Science, Information Systems or equivalent is preferred