Senior Associate Engineer, Quality Assurance
Bain & Company
New Delhi, Delhi, India
JOB DESCRIPTION Company Overview : Bain & Company is a global consultancy that helps the world’s most ambitious change-makers define the future. Across 65 cities in 40 countries, we work alongside our clients as one team with a shared ambition to achieve extraordinary results, outperform the competition, and redefine industries. We complement our tailored, integrated expertise with a vibrant ecosystem of digital innovators to deliver better, faster, and more enduring outcomes. Our 10-year commitment to invest more than $1 billion in pro bono services brings our talent, expertise, and insight to organizations tackling today’s urgent challenges in education, racial equity, social justice, economic development, and the environment. Since our founding in 1973, we have measured our success by the success of our clients, and we proudly maintain the highest level of client advocacy in the industry. Position Summary: This position sits on a scrum team and is responsible for conducting quality assurance (QA) on specific software applications. Working with their agile teams, and with support of QA leader, this position plans, conducts and reports results on a variety of tests including manual, exploratory, automated regression, and performance testing. As active member of the scrum team, this position participates in all scrum ceremonies. This role also participates in broader QA initiatives under the guidance of the QA leader Essential Functions: Requirement understanding (20%) Understand functional and non-functional requirements and the business context for which the application is being developed. Participate in meetings and calls pertaining to requirements and clarification of requirement issues. Provide input into acceptance criteria to clarify the user story before work begins Test planning, design, execution, and defect management (50%) Design and document test scenarios, manual test cases for the functional and non-functional requirements. - Write, maintain, and execute automated UI test scripts, with assistance. Maintain a suite of manual and automated regression test cases, ensuring that test cases found missing during internal and external testing are incorporated into this suite. Keep the regression suite updated for all changes in requirement Execute the test cases and prepare test logs. Conduct performance testing to ensure that the application conforms to the defined performance specifications. Interpret the outcome of the testing and escalate any issues in the performance of the application. Report any defect found during the execution using the project's defined defect management tool. Troubleshoot bugs to identify ultimate root cause and then document findings in bug tracking software. Also clearly understand the impacted areas due to resolution suggested/provided by the development team. Work with the team to ensure bugs found in testing are resolved and retested. Update the status accordingly Collaboration (10%) Provide input into application test strategy, including amount of manual, exploratory, and automated tests, working with both QA leadership and scrum team Raise concerns, roadblocks, and impediments to scrum team and management in a timely manner Participates fully in all scrum ceremonies, including sprint reviews Help scrum team ensure sprint goal is met, including activities outside QA function when requested Support application deployment as necessary Take ownership Qualifications : Education and Work Experience: Bachelor's/Master's in Computer Applications, Computer Engineering, Business, Information technology 2-4 years of experience Individual Contributor Functional testing, Regression testing, Smoke testing, Automation testing, Java, JavaScript, C#, Python, Strong reasoning skills, Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Scrum ban, Bug Reporting, Test Execution, Test case writing Few short travels could be required for business/team collaboration Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: Good understanding of basic testing concepts Should be able to write functional automated test scripts Knowledge of any of the programming language like Java, JavaScript, Python, C# with a test automation tool Working knowledge of test management tool Strong written and verbal communication skills Ability to establish trusted partnerships with product heads, and executive level stakeholders Comfort with agile operating models Attention to detail and aptitude for analytical problem resolution Strong critical thinking skills Demonstrated interest in and aptitude for technology Ability to work independently and with teams
