Senior quality assurance engineer

Job Description Job Title Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
Location Pune/Remote
Qualification BCA/ MCA/ BE/ BTech (Preferably in Comp Sc/IT)
Years of Experience 4+ years
Technical Skills Required
Manual Testing (4+ years in manual testing)
i. Good knowledge of manual testing methodologies, techniques
ii. Good understanding of QA processes and management
iii. Hands on experience of designing test plans, test strategies
iv. Proven ability to manage team and assigning tasks
v. Defect Management, Defect Prioritization, Test Case Management
vi. Good knowledge of test management and defect management tools
Domain
I. Working knowledge of either the OSI layers, Routing/Switching, DNS, DHCP, and Firewalls OR any of the virtualization platform like VMware Workstation/ESXi or Microsoft Hyper-V etc including its Expert-level configuration
II. Strong understanding of PKI (Public Key Infrastructure), Ciphers, Digital certificates and Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) principles
Reporting and communication
Understanding the test metrices, prepare and share with stake holders
Ability to communicate effectively with team and management
Hands on experience in releasing products/builds to customers with supporting documents
Hands on experience in documentations of product communication flows and product guides
System
Good understanding of server configurations
Good networking concepts and analytical skills
Good To Have
Automation Testing
Hands on experience in automation
Hands on experience in framework designing and reporting
Knowledge of performance testing tools like JMeter or any other
Knowledge of Web Services testing
Hands on experience of client server model-based products and desktop clients.
Exposure to mobile applications testing
Kubernetes and Container technologies
Having domain experience of virtualization especially Nutanix, VMware, Microsoft
Soft Skills Required
Strong communication skills (verbal and written both)
Proactive
Self-motivated
Logical bent of mind (Analytical)
Team player & quick learner
Flexible/adaptable
Multi-Tasking
Excellent team player
Role And Responsibilities
Act as key point of contact for all QA aspects of releases, providing QA services and coordinating QA resources internally and externally.
Lead and mentor QA team members, as well as manage outside contract testers.
Perform root-cause analysis on complex issues related to networking or virtualization
Lead and mentor QA team members, as well as manage outside contract testers.
Guide teams for understand requirements and provide pointers for designing boundary cases and efficient test model
Understand automation structure in place, help team to make it better
Understand customer requirements, coordinate with development team and get it implemented with general availability in mind
Establish and evolve QA processes for efficiently delivering products to market with best of quality Good domain knowledge or at-least end user expectations
Oversee all aspects of quality assurance including establishing metrics, applying industry best practices, and developing new tools and processes to ensure quality goals are met.

Work arrangement
Yes