Quality Assurance Analyst

at  RATESDOTCA Group Ltd

OPPORTUNITY

We need a highly self-motivated, talented and detail-oriented Quality Assurance Analyst who will be involved in all aspects of SDLC.
You will be reporting to the Manager, Quality Assurance and will contribute to collaboration with peers to deliver high quality automation solutions in a fast-moving agile development environment.
The most important value of our team is that we love solving problems and getting the job done. This means we communicate well amongst each other, love to learn, help each other, find, and implement solutions, and like to have fun. Our team members are intelligent, problem solvers and great communicators. Being effective at this position means, you have a passion to learn and apply those learnings to real problems.

SKILLS/EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS

• 5+ years of proven experience in defining, developing, and owning manual testing.
• Working knowledge in P & C insurance preferred but not mandatory.
• Excellent problem solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Flexible in working as both an individual and a team player.
• Willingness to learn and contribute towards test automation infrastructure for a variety of applications and products.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES (MUST HAVE)

• Should have experience in Manual testing.
• Sound knowledge of Relational Databases (ex. Oracle, SQL server etc.) and should be proficient in Query writing including all kinds of joins and subqueries.
• Should be able to read/write and modify XML and Json docs as required in business workflows.
• Knowledge of manual API testing (conceptual knowledge about soap and Rest)
• Good understanding of Agile framework.
• Execute test cases strategy/plans and update test documentation, create reports/traceability matrix back to requirements.
• Coordinate test planning and support with partners (e.g., Business, Dev, PM’s etc.) and support all testing activities across various products and applications.
• Work on document creation, review, sign-off, defect logging, conducting RCAs for issues, closure reports, entry/exit criteria and gatekeeping.
• Coordinate code deployments, maintenance upgrades and project testing.
• Excellent communicator, ability to focus and prioritize tasks, ensure milestones are completed per schedule.
• Communicate and address scope changes that may impact testing (timeline, cost, risk etc.)
• Propose and own ideas to continuously improve test coverage.
• Identify areas of regression for manual and automation testing per release.
• Good knowledge of test management tools and Jira.
• Participate in estimation, planning and execution of testing tasks.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES (NICE TO HAVE)

• Design, build, and execute Web and API test scripts by translating manual regression test cases into automated test scripts.
• Proficiency leveraging SoapUI, Postman, Rest-Assured or similar testing tools for API testing.
• Willingness to learn JavaScript and automation tools/frameworks like puppeteer/protractor/selenium/Cypress etc., and willingness to learn new languages and tools as per need.
• Familiarity with unit testing frameworks like Mocha-chai/Jest and reporting.
• Involvement to implement/improve CI/CD practices.
• Active participation in building continuous integration and deployment solutions (Gitlab, Bitbucket, Jenkins etc.).
• ISTQB certification preferred.