The Associate Quality Assurance Engineer is responsible for developing and implementing functional test plans and test cases, and performing various testing activities to verify, validate and document the performance of all software to ensure that only high-quality products are delivered to clients. He/she participates in management, development, and design meetings as appropriate, to ensure that quality objectives are addressed at appropriate phases within the software development lifecycle.

Skillset Requirements

• Exceptional comprehension skills, and ability to learn and contribute with minimal oversight - a initiative-taker.

• Ability to think in abstract and quickly grasp the essence of the job at hand.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, dealing with technical data

• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills.

• Excellent diligence and follow-up.

• Initiative-taking, strong initiative and flexible.

• Ability to work methodically in a fast-paced, time sensitive environment.

• Should have exceptional time management, planning and organizing skills.

• Enthusiastic, attitude towards teamwork and ability to work with little guidance.

• Proven ability to meet deadlines, goals, and objectives within assigned time limits.

• Effective communication skills, including the ability to understand and communicate highly technical concepts to all levels of the organization

• Ability to work with cross-functional teams, including global peers across Europe, UK, US, and India.

• Interact closely with members of cross-functional feature teams for product success.

Educational Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or appropriate combination of education and experience. Any graduate - BCA /MCA/ B. Tech/ MTech (CS or IT) with relevant experience.

Technical Requirements

• Experience in the range of 0-2 years.

• Knowledge in manual testing will be an added advantage.

• Knowledge of Automation tools / scripting is a nice to have.

• Knowledge of RDBMS and OOPS Concepts.

• Knowledge of general relational database concepts

• Knowledge of Quality Assurance methodologies and SDLC is required.

• Knowledge of creating and executing functional test plans and test cases will be preferred.

• Knowledgeable in basic MS Office applications.

• Knowledge of Configuration Management and Bug tracking tools

• Good data analysis, defect reporting, analytical and critical thinking skills.

Job Responsibilities

• Develop Quality Assurance test plans and test cases to thoroughly evaluate the business applications based on the clients’ requirements and the development release documents.

• Develop Automated Test Scripts for testing changes introduced in the product

• Document and perform functional, regression, and integration testing for all releases.

• Break down requirements documentation into basic components for effective testing.

• Engineer test data to be used in the various testing types throughout the software development lifecycle: configuration testing, installation testing, performance testing, fail over testing, stress testing, and volume testing.

• Work closely with the project management team to design tests that will ensure the release’s goals are met prior to final deployment.

• Work closely with all other technical teams to ensure effective cross-team coordination during the testing process.

• Identify and document software discrepancies.

• Identify, log, report and track bugs found in the release. Prepare clear and concise written reports on bugs/defects found during QA process.

• Communicate test plan status to the manager to promote effective critical path decisions for the release.

• Participate in all phases of test execution and documentation including functional, regression, performance, usability, integration, and acceptance testing.