Quality Assurance Engineer

Summary

Join Nagarro, a rapidly scaling digital product engineering company, as a Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer. You will be responsible for the QA/Testing portion of project deliverables, ensuring user requirements are met and releases are defect-free. This role involves analyzing and testing software throughout the Software Development Lifecycle, including functional, integration, regression, and acceptance testing. You will lead testing activities, write comprehensive test plans and cases, develop test data, and document issues clearly. The position requires strong technical and communication skills, experience with various testing methodologies, and the ability to work both independently and collaboratively. You will also contribute to improving QA processes and promoting testing best practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, MIS, Business Administration, or related field
• Minimum 3 years of relevant experience in QA
• Must possess excellent technical and non-technical verbal and writing skills
• Must effectively communicate testing metrics, progress, schedules, issues impacting delivery and changes found during testing
• Poses a strong familiarity with HTML and JavaScript and can write moderately complex SQL queries as needed to verify test results and analyze problems
• Demonstrates an understanding of business and technical process flows and how to support them
• Ability to work productively both independently and in a team environment
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Excellent interpersonal and problem-solving skills
• Ability to drive results and make decisions
• Ability to train other testing resources
• Passion for quality and a continuous improvement mindset

Responsibilities

• Responsible for producing and delivering high-quality, structured, fully tested solutions on time, and by business requirements and IS standards
• Review business requirement documents and work closely with business analysts and the development team to review and clarify functional and non-functional aspects of the application
• Leads the delivery of functional (integration and system), regression, and user acceptance testing activities
• Writes clear, concise, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test cases
• Estimates, prioritizes, plans, and coordinates testing activities
• Writes and executes test cases that will ensure comprehensive test coverage
• Develops necessary test data
• Develops and maintains manual test suites and test cases
• Responsible for finding, reproducing, and documenting issues for a product team clearly and thoroughly
• Verifies defect fixes and performs follow-up work to resolve issues
• Performs thorough regression testing
• Tracks and reports quality assurance metrics, like defect densities and open defect counts
• Provides support (24x7 on-call) for production systems
• Recommends and/or implements testing automation tools and approaches
• Designs, develops, and executes automation scripts
• Champions testing adoption and promotes testing usage to all areas of IS, both inside and outside the areas of application development
• Defines and governs testing-related standards
• Researches and introduces new testing tools and test strategies
• Establishes QA processes and guidelines
• Cultivates and disseminates knowledge of QA best practices

Preferred Qualifications

• Extensive Jira Experience
• Test Release Planning
• Subject 7 / Automation Platform Experience
• Test Case Management Background
• PBI Dashboard Experience
• Utilization of Existing APIs (analyzing available API documentation)
• Front End Testing (UI)
• Back End Testing (API End Points / Database)