Job Description

• Pune, India

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

• • Define and create functional test scenarios, regression tests, negative and usability tests
  • Report the progress of test execution and provide timely communication on the test results to key stakeholders on a regular basis
  • File defects with appropriate supporting information for development to investigate and prepare a fix
  • Work with Developers during the product life cycle, participate in the Agile/SCRUM process
  • Cooperate with UX, UI and PO for specifications, user interaction and graphic design
  • Write automated tests over existing automation frameworks
  • Work according to high execution standards, while adhering to project goals and
  • ensuring high quality
  • Work smoothly with local and remote R&D teams, while keeping high visibility
  • and effective communication
  • 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 software development life cycle and SQA methodologies and practices
  • Meticulous attention to detail
  • 8 to 10  years of overall experience in testing Web-based applications, including 3 years in test automation using Selenium, Java, TestNG etc.
  • Analytical, problem-solving, and creative thinking skills
  • Good knowledge of OOP, Java, Selenium Webdriver
  • Good experience of writing Selenium scripts and strong Java programming knowledge
  • Up to speed with modern software engineering tools: version control systems (Git), issue tracking (JIRA), test management (TestRail), 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