Senior QA Engineer (remote, India) owns product quality at Nurdsoft: designing test plans and automation frameworks with tools like Cucumber and Mocha, running regression, API and web testing, and logging defects in Jira/Asana within a fast-paced Agile startup environment.
A Senior Test Engineer is responsible of ensuring the highest quality the highest quality of product is delivered. This role primarily focuses on building testing strategies and frameworks to improve coverage and rapid regression testing including designing test plans, bug reporting and tools development.
Responsibilities
Review product specifications and technical design documents to create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases
Working independently, estimating, prioritizing, planning and coordinating quality testing activities with different teams
Capable to work in a fast-paced Agile environment
Design, develop and execute automation scripts using any open source tools such as Cucumber and Mocha
Identify and document defects using Jira, Asana or similar tools
Perform regression testing when bugs are resolved and prior to releases
Continuously identify risks and solutions to improve team process and product quality
Help define standards and best practices for testing and automation
Thrive in a startup environment who can adopt new technologies with minimal guidance and capable to work independently
Passionate about solving difficult technical problems and building quality products
Requirements
5+ years of Software Quality Assurance or relevant experience is required
Experience with QA techniques including black box, white box approaches for smoke, regression, functional, user acceptance testing
Familiarity or experience working with automation
Extensive knowledge in API testing and web testing
Excellent troubleshooting skills
Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities
Thrives in a fast-paced IT environment
Must be a self-starter able to take initiative and collaborate on a distributed team
Outstanding time management and prioritization
Knowledge of Jira, Git, GitHub and other debugging tools
JavaScript experience is preferred
Qualities
Out of the box thinker with a passion for doing things right the first time
Should have non-negotiable urge towards 100% automation, and zero-trust policy towards security
Strong urge towards investigation of problems, and ability to conduct independent research
A self-starter, data-driven with excellent analytical & problem-solving ability to conceptualize and drive end-to-end development solutions that provide customer value
Motivation to learn new concepts and proactively develop domain knowledge
Strong decision-making skills; take-charge personality with ability to drive a plan to completion
Smart individual who is readily approachable and be able to work effectively with multisite cross functional teams, having excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal skills