Job Description

The Team:

The team works in an Agile environment and adheres to all basic principles of Agile. As a Quality Engineer, you will work with a team of intelligent, ambitious and hard-working software professionals. The team is independent in driving all decisions and responsible for the architecture, design and development of our products with high quality.

Responsibilities:

As a Quality Engineer, you are responsible for:

Defining Quality Metrics:

Defining quality standards and metrics for the current project/product. Working with all stake holders to ensure that the quality metrics is reviewed, closed and agreed upon. Create a list of milestones and checkpoints and set measurable criteria to check the quality on timely basis.

Defining Testing Strategies:

Defining processes for test plan and several phases of testing cycle. Planning and scheduling several milestones and tasks like alpha and beta testing. Ensuring all development tasks meet quality criteria through test planning, test execution, quality assurance and issue tracking. Work closely on the deadlines of the project. Ensure, you are focusing on automation along with manual testing. Keep raising the bar and standards of all the quality processes with every project. Thinking of continuous innovation. Review test strategies and see that all the various kinds of testing like unit, functional, performance, stress, acceptance etc. are getting covered.

Managing Risks:

Understanding and defining areas to calculate the overall risk to the project. Creating strategies to mitigate those risks and take necessary measures to control the risks. Communicating or creating awareness to all the stake holders for the various risks Understand & review the current risks and escalate.

Process Improvements:

Challenge yourself continuously to move towards automation for all daily works and help others in the automation. Create milestones for yearly improvement projects and set. Work with the development team to ensure that the quality engineers get apt support like automation hooks or debug builds wherever and whenever possible

Required Skill:

5-8 years of strong experience in QA/testing . Excellent Analytical and communication skills are essential, with strong verbal and writing proficiencies Work in partnership with Scrum team members, including engineering and product management, to deliver business functionality on-time, with required quality, and that meets the acceptance criteria Write test cases and scenarios from the requirements/designs; manage bug tracking. Strong knowledge of database testing tools like SQL, Oracle and ability to build and run complex queries for data mapping testing. Experience with messaging tech (Pub/Sub, Kafka, SQS) Cloud experience - AWS preferred Hands-on with logging/monitoring tools (Splunk, DataDog) * Automation experience preferred (Python preferred)