Job Description

• Pune

Aera Technology is the Decision Intelligence company. We deliver innovation and services that enable enterprises to operate sustainably, intelligently, and efficiently. Our platform, Aera Decision Cloud™, integrates with your existing systems to digitize, augment, and automate decisions in real time. Aera helps enterprises around the world transform decision making – delivering millions of recommendations that have resulted in significant revenue gains and cost savings for some of the world’s best-known brands.

We’re looking for a talented Automation QA Engineer who is passionate about test automation. This is an excellent opportunity for people who enjoy working on the full cycle of test automation, including risk analysis, creating automation strategies & plans, creating & executing automation suites and automation scripts, finding/logging/verifying defects, supporting releases and helping with on-going product maintenance.

The candidate hired for this position will be a part of a highly collaborative team that works with innovative technologies in a fast-paced, creative and fun environment. You will be working with automation team along with developers, designers, product managers who appreciate each of your bugs - imagine that! You will play a very important role in ensuring the quality and excellence of our product.

Responsibility

• • Work with Product, Design, and Engineering teams on Automation evaluation
  • Establish automation goals for new & existing features
  • Participate in product design reviews to provide input on functional requirements, product designs, test estimates, schedules and potential risks
  • Create and execute automation scripts, and consistently contribute to improve test automation infrastructure and coverage
  • Define and create functional test scenarios, regression tests, negative and usability tests
  • Create test schedules according to the defined software delivery timelines
  • Participate in design and development of test automation frameworks and solutions across our entire stack
  • Be a vocal champion for quality in every phase of the development process
  • Perform software compatibility tests with different software configurations on multiple platforms.
  • Work with our Customer Success team on investigating customer-facing issues and drive issues to closure
  • Perform production post-deployment validations, test and coordinate deployment of the hotfixes

Nice to have

• • Strong knowledge of SDLC, STLC, Defect lifecycle, SQA methodologies and practices
  • 8 to 10  years of overall experience in testing Web-based applications, including 3 years in test automation using Selenium, Java, TestNG etc.
  • Good experience of writing Selenium scripts and strong Java programming knowledge.
  • Up to speed with modern software engineering tools: version control systems (Git/Bitbucket), issue tracking(JIRA), test management (TestRail/Zephyr/ALM), build systems (Gradle/Maven), test tools (TestNG/JUnit), continuous integration (Jenkins) etc.
  • Good knowledge of creating and executing SQL queries and parsing DB results as required experience with API testing, RESTful web services, RESTAssured with JSON payloads
  • Strong sense of ownership, passionate, fast learner, detail-oriented, analytical mindset, perfection seeker
  • Excellent written and verbal communication, people and collaboration skillsAbility to effectively work and communicate with cross-functional teams in multiple locations
  • Self-motivated with an ability to manage multiple tasks with minimal supervision
  • Excellent communication and documentation skills, strong analytical, problem solving and creative thinking skills

Nice to Have

• • Experience working with a globally distributed team
  • Experience with multi-tenant SaaS applications