SaaS Product QA Engineer
Job Location
Koregaon Park, Pune
Type of Job
Full time
Published Date
14 December 2020 at 10:30:00 am
Experience Level
5-7 years
About the job
This is a quality assurance and testing role for a self-motivated individual with excellent software testing skills and expertise end-to-end (E2E) application testing release and continuous testing.
SaaS Product QA Engineer responsibilities include:
Designing test strategy and test plan for SaaS product from functionality testing, usability testing, user interface testing, cross browser testing across devices, to performance, load, stress, security testing along with operations testing.
Working on setting up test environments, test scripts for both manual and automated testing and coming up with cost-effective toolchain to ensure complete testing in stringent timelines for faster release.
Take accountability of the user experience for releases and ensure best quality to be the gatekeeper to release best in class end-user experience.
Responsibilities
You will proactively seek out ways to avoid common software-testing problems such as test case duplication, flaky tests, and maintainability
You will pair with devs to read and analyze code and provide feedback about tests
You will provide input for and champion system testability
You will examine end-to-end processes in addition to backend testing, ensuring quality is embedded throughout
You will produce and implement test strategies during the software development process
Drive the creation of a reliable automated testing suite with strong reporting capabilities that ensures simple, effective analysis of failures for your team to use
Champion high-functioning teams and enable transitions where necessary
Extend your passion for quality assurance practices to enabling the product and engineering team, helping coach team to adopt a testing mindset.
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering or a related subject
Experience in a wide range of frameworks and tools for efficient testing
Basics for testing web, API and mobile
The will to learn what it takes to get the job done. Whether that means going back to the drawing board with a problem or simply assuming various roles and responsibilities for a period of time
You have worked for 5+ years as a Quality Analyst as part of a wider development team, pairing with Devs and ideally Business Analysts, Infrastructure Engineers, and Designers
You have experience with Agile, code management, deployment strategies and different types of non-functional testing
Solid understanding of best practices such as TDD, BDD, CI/CD and the Practical Test Pyramid
You have experience with API automation, are comfortable in databases, and love to write simple code in order to test applications
You are comfortable with different types and techniques in functional testing including exploratory, boundary value analysis and equivalence partitioning
You have exposure to and experience in using defect tracking and management tools
An understanding of how to perform better white box testing using code
You know what a test strategy is and can produce one
You can zoom out to the big picture and understand the impact of changes to the product
You’re resilient in ambiguous situations and can approach and tackle challenges from multiple perspectives
· You enjoy influencing others and always advocate for quality as a shared team responsibility, yet are open to change when needed
· An ability to assess strengths amongst your teammates and distribute quality-related tasks when needed