QA Analyst

Overview

Design, develop and execute testing strategies to validate functionality, performance and user experience, collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve defects and continuously improve testing processes and methodologies.

What you'll do

• Develop and implement comprehensive test plans and strategies to validate software functionality and ensure compliance with established quality standards.
• Create and execute automated test scripts, leveraging testing frameworks and tools to facilitate early detection of defects and quality issues.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to analyse requirements, participate in design discussions, and contribute to the development of acceptance criteria.
• Perform root cause analysis for identified defects, working closely with developers to provide detailed information and support defect resolution.
• Collaborate with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
• Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations, and actively contribute to the organisation's technology communities.
• Interact with Business Analysts, business stakeholders and developers to understand various test cases.
• Contribute to the strategy to automate test cases via suitable test frameworks.
• Train and mentor junior testers within the team and manage their performance.
• Drive best practices for end-to-end automation via Selenium, Cucumber, REST Assured and related technologies.

What you'll need

• Hands-on experience with Selenium WebDriver with Web/Angular based applications, and Playwright.
• Thorough knowledge of BDD with Cucumber/feature files.
• Experience and extensive knowledge of API automation tools using REST Assured or Postman, Karate, etc.
• Experience in CI/CD tools like GitLab.
• Extensive knowledge of the testing lifecycle and core testing process/techniques using different test approaches and manual testing.
• Relevant experience implementing test strategy and frameworks to test all dimensions of a complex, high-throughput distributed system, including functional correctness, performance, scale and security.
• Good understanding of performance testing tools (JMeter and LoadRunner).
• Good understanding of database design with the ability to write complex SQL queries.

Nice to have

• Experience in the banking compliance domain.
• Specific knowledge of financial products such as Equities or Commodities.
• Experience of working with UI testing tools like Selenium, Playwright.
• Experience of working with API automation like REST Assured, Karate, Postman.
• Ability to identify issues and risks which may impact delivery timelines, and cognizance to escalate issues with vendors/management as required.
• Good knowledge of performance testing tools like LoadRunner, JMeter.
• Extremely organised, with excellent oral and written communication skills, particularly in documenting system architectures and workflows.

Details

• Location: Pune.