Job Description

Designation: QA Engineer

Experience 3-8 years of relevant experience 

Location Gurgaon/Chennai

Job Summary:

The QA Engineer ensures the execution of functional test activities as part of the development team in agile set up. This function ensures that a stable and correct test environment is available, and to perform functional/system/performance related tests for the product. This function also involves automating the provisioning & execution of test activities for regression purposes.

Responsibilities & Tasks:

• Responsible for the quality of the product
• Develops test cases and also able to review written by others
• Drives Test improvement plans
• Assigned test activities are realized within approved cost, time and quality
• Maintenance and update of test documents
• Keep description of the test environment (both HW & SW) up-to-date. Track all software and hardware licenses and inventory.
• Handling the Test environment (including simulators, tools, test server)
• Actively participate in project meetings to provide feedbacks, about faults and limitations in the product documentations
• Participate in Project Planning, Test Effort Estimation, Functional & Performance testing strategy
• Participate in forum and work groups, representing the test area
• Drive Continuous Improvements of Products and Processes
• Clearly communicates the status with all the stakeholders
• Demands excellence form self and team

Position Qualifications:

Core Competencies:

• Good knowledge of Test tools and Test environment
• Good Knowledge of Product Development Life Cycle and Software Test Life Cycle
• Business Understanding: Have an ability to connect to the big picture, i.e. visualizes how the product will be used by the customer
• Lean and Agile Knowledge and Skills
• Candidate’s presence in the team must boost the positive environment in the team. Must be able to provide constructive feedback within the team
• Adapting and Responding to Change
• Should be able to think differently and come with out of the box solutions for day to day problems
• Candidate must be result oriented and always push for excellence
• Self-Planned and Organized: Candidate must have the capability to plan his/her own work and also is organized so that the status is also transparent to the team members

Minimum Qualification and Experience Requirements

• Bachelors / Masters of Engineering in Computer Science or Electronics
• 3 – 8 Years
• Basic know how of Java
• Good knowledge of scripting languages
• Must have worked with different type of deployments, virtualization, stand alone, cluster, redundancy and so on.
• Very good knowledge of systems, platforms and Unix admin tasks
• Fluent in verbal and written communication in English