Lead Quality Assurance Engineer

Company Description

An exciting opportunity to join an established UK based company with 20% year on year

growth rate. A rapidly growing UK based software (SaaS) company dedicated to providing

cutting-edge solutions for the logistics and transportation industry. With ongoing investment

in new products, we offer the excitement and innovation of a start-up coupled with the

stability and benefits of an established business.

Role Description

This is a full-time, on-site role for a Lead Quality Assurance Engineer, based in Kochi. The responsibilities include planning and executing test strategies, conducting manual testing, creating, and managing test cases, and ensuring consistent quality assurance.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required:

• BS degree in Engineering or Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Proven experience of at least 6-10 years as a Quality Assurance engineer or similar role.
• Experienced candidates with 8+ years in Test Automation experience along with 6+ years in manual testing experience.
• In depth understanding of both manual and automation testing and show examples of learning new skills in the past.
• Results based individual with a proven track record to proactively identify issues/problems and provide solutions.
• An innovative team member able to think outside of the box who possesses the ability to proactively identify risks and potential issues whilst having the ability to resolve them.
• An individual who can priorities workload and has the ability toworkon parallel tasks.
• Ability to acquire subject matter expertise in assigned area of business.
• Hands on experience with aspects of both functional and nonfunctional test phases.
• Ability to work and collaborate in a team-based environment.
• A thought partner with the ability to drive initiatives to completionwith no supervision.
• In depth understanding of using and maintain test frameworks suchas Playwright, Java and TypeScript programming and design patternexperience in Page Object Model.
• Experience using Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment pipelines and code repositories with tools such as Jenkins and GitHub. Senior QA Automation Engineer
• Experience in Agile Software Development environment withDataDriven Testing driven along with a strong knowledge of test management tools, test case management and defect tracking system.
• Ability to work with and vast experience in Rest assured, JUnit 5, Allure, Gradle, Lombok, Mongo Java Driver.
• Hands on experience building test automation frameworks fromscratch to web applications. Experience to manually valid APIs, Web Services, Apps, PostgreSQLusing tools such as Postman, SwaggerUI.
• Ability to read, write, maintain, and execute both manual andautomation tests. Contribute to the QA Guild and sharing best practices.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Individual has the proven experience and ability to support operations team by resolving production incidents which are assigned to them in an appropriate time framework.
• Proven experience in supporting, coordinating, and ensuring all releases in Production have been validated successfully.

Nice to have:

• Building CI/CD pipelines for post deployment verification.
• Experience in Contract testing.
• Experience in Playwright