QA Engineer

We are looking for a Quality Assurance Engineer to join our Technology team in Chennai

What we do:

Bright-River provides Visual Content services to the larger e-commerce and retail companies around the world. Our 2D and CGI visual experts deliver product visual content daily using our in-house developed platform and applications. Our Business Technology team is a dedicated team of engineers and developers working on our application stack and platform. We are spread across our offices in Chennai, Netherlands, New York and Bangladesh.

What are we looking out for from you?

• Want to work in a product based technology team.
• Passion for your work.
• Understanding the business and gathering requirements.
• Proactively looking for places for improvements.
• Learning new stuff related to your area of expertise is also a part of the job. It's not something you do in your free time.
• Learn constantly and stay up to date with the day to day advancements in your area of expertise.
• Make use of the resources available to you and figure out ways to fulfil the business needs.
• Share what you learn by doing “POC” and “Knowledge Transfer” sessions.
• Don't hesitate to voice out your opinions.
• Be ready to learn from everyone in the team.
• Own the tasks assigned to you.
• Don’t be afraid to take responsibility for things that you feel deserves more attention.
• Think outside of the box.
• Apply what you learn.
• When you see an opportunity to do things better as a team, don't shy away from proposing and setting new standards across the team.

Technical and Professional Expertise:

• 3 to 5+ years of experience as a QA Engineer, Software test engineer or Test manager.
• Ability to understand both functional and non-functional requirements.
• Strong Knowledge in Software QA Methodologies, Tools & Processes, ability to build a new QA environment.
• Experience in writing Clear, Concise & Comprehensive test plans, test cases, performance or security testing.
• Proven work experience in test automation tools as well as manual testing.
• Experience automating tests within cloud environments (AWS, Azure).
• Experience testing RESTful APIs or web services using tools like Postman or Rest Assured.
• Solid understanding of test automation frameworks. Experience in designing and maintaining frameworks is a big plus.
• Knowledge of integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, CircleCI, Azure DevOps, etc.).
• Solid knowledge of MSSQL DB testing, SPA Web applications, API and backend technologies.
• Hands-on experience in Agile/Scrum development processes
• Knowledge on Microsoft Azure Cloud will be added bonus
• Knowledge in implementing CI/CD technology using Gitlab, Azure DevOps ,Octopus, Jenkins.
• Fluent in English

What you own or contribute towards:

• Using outstanding QA and testing skills, you contribute to the deployment and operations of our in-house applications. The applications are used daily by our Bright River colleagues and our customers.

• You will take ownership of leading the quality of an assigned project and its features.

• Prepare detailed٫ comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases

• Review requirements٫ specifications and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback

• Plan and coordinate testing activities٫ thoroughly identifying and documenting bugs

• Build and execute automation scripts using open source tools

• Collaborate with internal teams (e.g. developers, operations and product owner) to identify system requirements

• You advocate the QA best practices and have an automation mindset to assist shaping our practices in the region for the future

• Track quality assurance metrics٫ like defect densities and open defect counts

• Analyse the causes of non-conforming software and train users to implement solutions

• Maintain relevant knowledge about new testing tools and test strategies

• Our teams work with Agile methodologies like Scrum and KanBan.

• DevOps mindset: Applying your DevOps skills to find the right balance between delivery speed and quality. Our aim is to automate everything and deliver on a continuous basis with a high level of quality.

Prerogative when you are a Bright-River employee:

• Plenty of room for development and learning on the job under superlative conditions.
• Being part of a structured and aligned team.
• Joining a growing Business Technology team in a key role. Great opportunity to learn new IT technology.
• The opportunity to be part of a fast-growing international scale-up with offices in 5 cities, across 4 countries and 3 continents.
• Joining a team of passionate. Diligent professionals that also know when and how to relax and have fun.
• You will be rewarded when you are a terrific performer, Friendly and innovative work environment.