Senior QA Engineer (Functional Automation)

Work as a QA Champion to plan, design and execute the QA processes. You will be responsible for guiding the other QA and work along with Manager in resource task allocations, prioritization, monitoring the QA processes and product release

Essential Functions include, but are not limited to the following:

You will be expected to:

• Work directly with Product Managers and developers to gain a good understanding of the product and test basis.
• Formulate and carry out an overall testing strategy with help of Quality Manager in collaboration with the team
• Should be able to estimate Automation and Functional Test
• Design, Implement, maintain, and document test cases (manual/automated), test scenarios & test plans in test management systems
• Plan and schedule the UAT/Test and production releases with contingencies
• Work in regular cadence based Agile methodology (Scrum or Kanban or similar framework)
• Define & champion QA best practices for the team
• Participate in backlog grooming & forward-looking exercise
• Guide and mentor junior team members
• Should be able to raise Red Flags on time and help the team to find solutions for the Test challenges faced during sprint/release
  
• Participate in the Code Reviews

Requirements

Key technical expertise areas expected for this role:

• Functional QA experience testing responsive Web applications.
• Hands on experience with Automation frameworks like Selenium using Java/python , or Playwright Automation tool or Cypress etc.
• Expertise in testing both UI and backend RESTful APIs.
• Experience in cross browser compatibility & responsive design testing.
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written).
• Excellent analytical & problem solving skills.

Additional areas that would add value:

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• ISTQB or similar certifications.
• Exposure working within the Networking Domain
• Exposure working on AI Chatbots or AI based applications
• Understanding of object oriented concepts and programming skills in Python and/or Java.
• Experience designing test automation frameworks for either UI and/or backend services; experience with both is preferred.
• Experience in performance testing and tools.
• Experience in security testing and tools.
• Ability to understand database structure (schema / collections), create and execute SQL queries for validations and assertions
• Experience working in Agile Scrum/Kanban methodologies.
• Experience with modern cloud technologies such as AWS.

Education and experience:

• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or related fields.
• 6+years of manual and automated QA experience.