Principal QA Engineer

The Job in short
You will join a team of QA Engineers with a focus on best practices in quality, test automation and CI Spaces, and work to ensure the organization is always running smoothly. These practices include metrics to monitor code coverage, bug prevention strategies and other quality measures.
Meet the job
You will be a part of our Customer Success team and ensure we deliver quality solutions during the entire SDLC of the project and that the product is implemented successfully for our customers;
● Develop, enhance and execute Manual and Automated tests;
● Test features on different test levels (Integration, System, Functional, Exploratory testing, Regression, Smoke and Sanity);
● Create and maintain Test Plan, Test Strategy documents for the release;
● Participate and get involved in agile ceremonies such as refinement; planning, daily standups, reviews and retrospectives and other activities such as a bug triage, product demo etc;
● Meet with the QA Guild (Chapter) team to share and experiment with new QA Standards and techniques;
● Constantly strive and collaborate to improve the process;
● Participate in defining internal QA goals such as the evaluation of new tools, Setting up new processes, Training new hires etc.
● For Principle/Senior role :
->Ability to mentor or guide peers;
->Perform code review and ensure best practices are followed;
->Participate in QA Hiring and enablement.
● Be flexible to adapt and learn new tools and tech-stack in short time;
● Produce defect metrics and reporting on the full QA process;
● Prepare different Test-suites like Smoke, Regression (manual);
● Regression (automated), etc. and maintain throughout the Release;
● Raise risk and blockers at the earliestv;
● Promote quality assurance in your team by owning the testing process and making quality an important deliverable;
● Hands-on and meet with clients.
How about you
● Strong communication skills in English (spoken and written), As you have to act as mediator between the business and technical team;
● Understanding exploratory testing and when to implement it;
● You have a good amount of programming skills in Java;
● Experience in testing across multiple platforms Mac OS & Windows;
● Solid understanding of the Agile Methodologies;
● Exposure in Android Studio and XCode;
● Mobile -> Experience in creating automation framework using Appium (Android & IOS);
● Experience working on End-to-End testing on Mobile Applications;
● Hands-on experience configuring, maintaining, and using Appium servers for mobile device automated testing;
● Strong functional knowledge of Android & IOS;
● Design and develop automated UI tests with XCUI/Espresso/Selenium Appium;
● Hands on experience in Cloud Based Infrastructure tools-Browserstack/Saucelabs/Lambdatest;
● API Testing -> Experience in testing API via Postman, RestAssured, SoapUI, etc;
● You understand continuous integration with an end to end automated testing on web and mobile;
● Experience with Jenkins, GitHub Actions (Jobs, Pipelines);
● Experience with working on version control systems (SVN/Git/GitHub/Bitbucket);
● Experience with NFRs such as Accessibility, Localization, Cross Browser, Cross Platform, etc;
● Familiar with Defect Management Tools ex. JIRA.