BlueOptima Hiring for Qa Associate ( Automation Tester) at Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Full Time

Job Description

Company Description
BlueOptima’s vision is to become the global reference for the optimisation of the performance of Software Engineers across all industries. We provide industry-leading objective metrics in software development. We enable large organisations to deliver better software, faster and at lower cost, with technology that pushes the limits of what has been done before. We are a global company which has consistently doubled in headcount and revenue YoY, with no external investment. We currently are located in 4 countries: London (our HQ), Mexico, India and the US. A total number of 180+ employees (and increasing every day) from 22 different nationalities and with over 25 languages spoken. We promote an open minded environment and encourage our employees to create their own success story in this high performance environment.

Location: Bangalore/Gurgaon, India
Department: Engineering Job summary: Our groundbreaking technology requires highly skilled and talented Engineers to understand the depth of the problem and devise a solution for it.

We are seeking a QA Associate to join our growing company and be a part of our success story, with experience in manual testing (some exposure in automation) for web application components, which are remotely deployed. We are looking for a talented QA Associate with deep experience of software testing procedure and analytical skills to join our research and development team in India. Your team: The Manual Testing team at BlueOptima caters to all current and upcoming product changes in Developer Analytics and Predictive Assessment, which are the core competencies of BlueOptima. You will be responsible for all aspects of our test procedures and work closely with the Scrum masters, Product Owners and Development teams to identify the best strategies for designing, developing and maintaining testing strategies for testing UI, Web Services and Testing of Web Services, writing and maintaining test suites. The QA Associate will be part of a high-performance global software development team and should have strong interpersonal, communication and analytical skills.
Responsibilities and tasks: The challenges that you will be working on, will be as follows, but not limited to
Develop and execute test cases

• Work with Engineering & Product team to understand use cases and create tests
• Defect management. Understand functional requirements, Perform QA tasks to meet customer needs, provide testing analysis
• Maintaining and improving current Testing strategies and suites.
• Coming up with out of box scenarios to edge cases for features
• Familiarity with Windows and Linux development environments
• Maintaining smooth flow of releases with Team Leads
• Owning critical pieces of application
• Design, develop and maintain Automation frameworks for testing UI and API
• Creating, updating and managing tests (automated)
• Working experience with JIRA
• Having basic knowledge of programming in Java, Selenium, Rest-Assured or similar modern test automation tools and frameworks

Qualifications
What You Need to Succeed at BlueOptima:

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science or equivalent with minimum 1+ years’ experience in QA and testing
• Strong knowledge of QA methodologies, tools and processes
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Having expertise in defect management and reporting
• Having exceptional analytical and problem solving skills
• Experience in Ad-hoc, Functional, Regression and Sanity/Smoke testing
• Experience in Automating Web Application Testing using Selenium .
• Experience in Java Programming, Selenium Web Driver, JUnit and TestNG

Good to have

• Knowledge of Jenkins and integration test suite with Jenkins
• Experience with testing distributed systems
• Experience testing on Web Services and UI technology
• Knowledge of testing APIs with Postman or similar tool
• Able to write basic SQL queries
• Understanding of Agile methodology

Your career progression: In BlueOptima, we strive to strengthen your skills, widen your scope of work and develop your career fast. For this role, you can expect development in both Manual and Automation QA, as well as acquiring knowledge in the latest technologies. Your role propagates to a senior role and eventually to a module owner.
Additional Information
Why join our team? Culture and Growth:

• Global team with a creative, innovative and welcoming mindset
• Rapid career growth and opportunity to be an outstanding and visible contributor to the company’s success
• Freedom to create your own success story in a high performance environment
• Training programs and Personal Development Plans for each employee

Benefits:

• Competitive Salary
• Flexible Work from Home policy – 2 days home p/w
• Free drinks and snacks in the office
• International travel opportunities
• Global annual meet up (most recent meetups have been held in Cancun and India)
• High quality equipment (Ergonomic chairs and 32’ screens)

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