Quality Engineer

ThoughtFocus; Ernakulam; On-site; INR 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company is seeking a skilled Tester to ensure quality in software development. You will lead testing efforts and collaborate with development teams during sprint planning. Responsibilities include maintaining automated test suites, ensuring compatibility with vendor integrations, and enhancing CI/CD pipelines. Ideal candidates have experience with Agile methodologies, strong problem-solving capabilities, and advanced skills in automated testing frameworks like Cypress. Candidates with a degree in Computer Science and relevant experience are preferred.

Qualifications

• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process.
• Knowledge of algorithms, data structures, and object-oriented design.
• Solid experience with automated testing frameworks, especially JS.

Responsibilities

• Analyze integration with vendor partners for compatibility.
• Identify areas of improvement for deployment across environments.
• Provide peer-reviews focused on code quality.

Skills

Test-Driven Development

Web automation tools

API automation frameworks

Attention to detail

Problem-solving skills

Collaboration in teams

Code quality review

Cloud environment knowledge

Education

BE/BTech/BS/MS/ME/MTech in Computer Science

Tools

Cypress

Jenkins

AWS

Job description

Position Summary: In this role, you will work collaboratively with development during sprint planning to design what tests will need to be written and passed for the sprint to be considered complete. Must be able to work with the development team to help them understand tests, but also ready to be a staunch defender of quality when your tests stand between them and the finish line of done and in production. As an experienced tester you will be able to take the lead during planning, testing and deployments to ensure the team meets its goal of delivering a quality product. Be ready to work with product and software engineering throughout the whole development cycle to ensure quality of software. This will include analyzing acceptance criteria, defining effective test cases as well as building and maintaining our automated test suite. You will be able to troubleshoot and resolve issues in dev, test, and production environments. They will have substantial knowledge of the financial sector, understanding of user experience and how to continually improve the quality of the software development process.

Responsibilities

• Analyze the integration with vendor partners to ensure compatibility of application in test and production environments.
• Identify areas of improvement that will help build and deploy updates across multiple environments more effectively.
• Provide advanced peer-reviews focused on code quality and the reduction of operational debt.
• Build and maintain web, API and mobile automation tools and frameworks.
• Able to step in as a leader of the team whenever necessary to ensure team direction is being maintained and deliverables are being met.
• Work with infrastructure team to improve the CI/CD pipeline with focus on reliability and automation of deployment.

Skills

• Working understanding and experience of Test-Driven Development and CI/CD best practices.
• Understanding of web, API and mobile automation tools and frameworks.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Attention to detail and critical thinking.
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical test cases for automation.
• Ability to coordinate with cross-functional work teams.
• Experience working with collaborative geographically dispersed team members.
• Solid written & verbal communication and advanced troubleshooting / debugging abilities.
• A self-starter who can be visionary, detail-oriented, and an enthusiastic team player.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to come up with creative solutions.
• Advanced understanding of the full application and the dependencies required for connecting and working with 3rd party vendors.
• Ability to create and maintain pipelines to support existing CI/CD systems.
• Possess ability to lead others in the completion of large-scale projects.

Education

• BE/BTech/BS/MS/ME/MTech degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Experience

• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process.
• Knowledge of algorithms, data structures, complexity theory and object-oriented design.
• Experience with automated (JS) testing frameworks such as Cypress, Detox, Jasmine, Jest.
• Cloud environment experience and AWS certifications are a plus.
• Experience developing high quality test automation.
• Experience maintaining and enhancing automated testing projects.
• Knowledge of software quality assurance/engineering methodologies, tools and processes.
• Strong, object-oriented design and coding experience.
• Experience building automated testing projects from ground up.
• Experience building CI/CD processes and leveraging tools such as Jenkins.