Senior SQA Engineer

Think Digitally; Karachi Division; On-site; PKR 669,600 - 1,004,400; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Above market salary

Bi-annual increments

Performance based bonuses

Flexible working arrangements

Recreational events

OPD health care

Medical coverage

Unlimited tele-consultations

Health counselling

Job summary

A leading tech company in Karachi, Pakistan, is seeking a Quality Assurance Engineer to develop and maintain automated test scripts, coordinate with product teams, and ensure software quality. The ideal candidate has 2-3 years of experience in automation testing with skills in Selenium, Cypress, and Agile methodologies. This role offers benefits including competitive salary, performance bonuses, and flexible work arrangements, catering to a healthy work-life balance.

Qualifications

• 2-3 years of experience in software quality assurance focused on automation testing.
• Experience with performance and security testing.
• Proven track record in testing web/mobile applications.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute automated test scripts using Selenium and Cypress.
• Coordinate with product management and software engineers.
• Identify, document, and track bugs through testing.

Skills

Selenium

Cypress

Automation testing

Agile methodology

SQL

Jenkins

Python

Cross-browser testing

Education

Bachelor’s degree in relevant discipline

Tools

Postman

JMeter

HP Loadrunner

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

Key responsibilities:

• Develop, maintain, and execute automated test scripts using Selenium and Cypress to ensure the quality and reliability of our software products.
• Coordinate with product management and software engineers to deliver stable enterprise software products.
• Apply, design, and develop automated testing strategies and build automated testing frameworks.
• Identify, record, document, and track bugs from manual and automated testing using respective tools.
• Prepare software defect and regression tracking and confirm sprint release status to stakeholders.
• Represent quality and the QA team in your product team.
• Be the first point of contact for any quality-related questions addressed to your product team.
• Ensure new quality-related initiatives and processes are well understood and adopted, and your product team is continuously following current initiatives and processes (e.g. Quality Assistance/TDD).
• Implement and maintain processes for security and performance testing.
• Organise cross-team collaboration/knowledge sharing with other QA engineers.
• Focus on Process and Defect Prevention rather than Product and Defect Detection.
• Provide coaching and guidance to your product team on QA processes and best practices to create a high-quality product.
• Identify areas of enhancement in the current QA processes and implement strategies to ensure continuous improvement in the quality of the product.
• Work with the Product Owner to ensure JIRA tickets contain adequate information to create a high-quality release.

Technical skills and abilities:

• Strong proficiency in automation tools such as Selenium and Cypress, with the ability to create and maintain test scripts from scratch.
• Knowledge and ability to plan, create and execute test cases.
• Ability to work with written requirements and to extract requirements from developers and product teams, as well as through exploring the software.
• Understanding of the C# .NET web application framework.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to build trusted relationships and translate test results for interpretation.
• Solid understanding of cross-browser testing.
• Good understanding of SDLC and Agile work environment.
• Knowledge of testing theories (white/black box testing, unit/integration/system testing, etc.).
• Innovative, lateral and pragmatic thought process.
• Self-motivated and can work under pressure to achieve team & individual targets.
• Selenium, Appium, Postman for web/mobile functional testing.
• Jenkins CI/CD pipelines for test automation scheduling and execution.
• Jmeter and HP Loadrunner for web application load testing.
• Knowledge utilising Atlassian Suite (Jira/Confluence/Bitbucket)

Qualifications & experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline highly regarded.
• Proven experience in software quality assurance with a focus on automation testing.
• Experience in PyTest and Python scripting.
• Significant experience in testing web/mobile applications.
• Experience with automation tools for functional testing (desktop/web/mobile).
• Experience with performance and security testing for web application
• Defect tracking & management experience.
• Experience working with SQL databases and with writing SQL queries to verify data.
• Experience with setting up new testing frameworks is highly desirable.
• Experience working with an offshore team is an advantage

Offerings & Benefits:

• Above market salary
• Bi-annual increments
• Performance based bonuses
• Flexible working arrangements for healthy work-life balance
• Recreational and entertainment events
• Dynamic team and great team culture
• OPD health care for self, spouse, children and parents
• Emergency and hospitalisation medical coverage
• Maternity care coverage for pre-natal and post-natal medical expenses
• Unlimited 24/7 tele-consultations with GPs
• Significant discounts on tele-consultations with specialist doctors
• Significant discounts on leading labs for medical tests.
• Significant discounts on leading pharmacies for medicines
• Health and wellbeing counselling
• Casual leaves
• Sick leaves
• Annual leaves
• Wedding leaves
• Haj leaves
• Pilgrimage leaves
• Maternity leaves
• Paternity leaves
• Bereavement leaves

At least 2-3 years of experience is required