Software Consultant -Testing

Department: Development
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: Pune, India
Reporting To: Sagar Shintre
Description
ParentPay Group is Europe’s leading software product company and the UK’s largest education technology business. We are on a mission to bring next-generation innovation to positively impact on the lives of millions of parents, teachers, and students every day in over 49 countries.
Our market leading products use cutting edge cloud-based technology to streamline school processes, including secure web and mobile apps that enable secure online payments for school items such as meals, trips, clubs and uniform, improve parental engagement, simplify meal management and - through our product SIMS - collect and manage a database of student information and core school operations.
ParentPay Group’s new offices in Pune are a fantastic tech hub for those looking to boost their careers in software product development.
Our bright team FastTrack their career with international exposure and ways of working based on agile development best practices from globally renowned technology consultancies.
Key Responsibilities
User stories and acceptance criteria are an acceptable standard
Assist Developers in Implementing unit testing and static analysis
Onboarding new testers
Exploratory testing performed in a meaningful, value-driven approach
Coaching and advising the team on techniques, tools etc.
Implementation of new testing tools
Leading Automation initiative and creation of framework whilst ensuring the correct standards for scripts
Test reporting in line with Group QA requirements e.g. product risk
Testing within the sprints
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
Required Skills
Experience in developing automated testcases in at least one programming language.
Proven 3+ years of work experience in software quality assurance, especially web applications
Hands-on experience with automated testing tools (Selenium, Testcafe, Supertest, Gatling, Browserstack, etc)
Hands-on experience in API testing and API test automation.
Strong knowledge in common web application technologies
Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes
Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test cases
Knowledge of Non-functional testing Performance testing, Usability testing etc
Ability to create and execute End to end test scenarios.
Strong communication skills to report and document test results.
Cross functional requirements testing
Collaboration and coordination skills to work with stakeholders and development teams.
Key Skills
Web application testing
Test automation
Usability Testing
Database testing
Manual exploratory testing
Quality strategy
Good To Have
BDD framework
javascript
Performance Testing

Work arrangement
Hybrid