QA Engineer Full Time

JOB PURPOSE – WHAT WILL YOU DO: 

Our team is looking for a talented, innovative, and results-oriented Quality Assurance Engineer (QAE) to test the front-end/ back-end features and large-scale services.

Quality Assurance Engineers at Urban test cutting-edge applications and products at the user level and code level, both manually and with automated tools. Our QAEs are not pure black box testers, they are able to understand software internals, debug problems using log files, and write automated tests with scripting tools and/or user-level automated tools. QAEs at Urban are excellent individual contributors capable of taking up tasks from start to completion with minimal help. QAEs at Urban are responsible for understanding the domain as well as the product in detail, designing the test strategy/planning, developing the test cases, and driving the test case sign-off processes with the stakeholders, contributing to code-level unit tests, test execution, and reporting.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES – WHAT YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR: 

• Develop automated test suites. Participate in design and code inspections.
• Create and maintain a set of automated test scripts (using Java, JUnit, Selenium, etc.) to validate UI-based software, non-UI-based software, and build related processes.
• Develop and maintain a dynamic test coverage matrix for all supported mobile devices, operating systems, software versions.
• Perform manual testing, the scope of which will encompass all functionalities of services as a prequel to automation.
  Perform API level and integration testing. 
• Analyze test logs; create test reports, co-ordinate with stakeholders.
• Constructively identify problems and propose solutions, taking on projects that identify and mitigate risk while measuring software quality.
• Enjoy working in a fast paced and challenging environment. Just like a visionary startup.
• Ownership and responsibility of work.
• Bring a professional attitude at work and belief in team effort.
• Stay up to date with new testing tools and test strategies

SKILLS/COMPETENCIES REQUIRED – WHAT YOU WILL NEED:

• Understanding of QA methodologies, life cycle and processes.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated experience in writing clean scripts/code quickly. Preferably Java coding.
• Strong organizational skills, able to track multiple test executions simultaneously and synthesize the results.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to communicate cross-functionally and across management levels in formal and informal settings to report on test progress, metrics, issues, and risks.
• Automation framework development experience.
• Experience in Agile/Scrum.

JOB PREREQUISITES (EDUCATION, PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE ETC)

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science / Engineering or related field.
• 5+ years of experience software quality assurance.
• Hands-on experience writing code (JAVA)
• Experience testing/exercising REST APIs
• Experience with testing frameworks such as JUnit and TestNG.
• Working knowledge of testing fundamentals such as TDD & BDD.