Senior Software Test Engineer
- Smiths
- 2 - 5 years
- Kolkata
- 3 months ago
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Job Description
- Design and develop detailed test plans, procedures, scenarios, and scripts to thoroughly evaluate new products or software updates, ensuring they meet customer requirements and company quality standards.
- Develop comprehensive testing protocols for various areas, including usability, database impact, error detection, regression testing, and real-world implementation scenarios. This includes understanding how software changes may affect the underlying database, ensuring that functionality is not compromised, and that system performance is optimized across all layers.
- Identify and analyze software defects, bugs, functionality issues, and output errors, documenting them in detail and collaborating with developers to resolve issues. Special attention is given to how updates might affect data flow, storage, and retrieval, potentially influencing database performance or integrity.
- Track and document issues, resolutions, and bug fixes throughout the testing process, maintaining a detailed database of defects and successful mitigation strategies, ensuring that potential database-related issues are closely monitored and addressed.
- Create clear and thorough documentation of test procedures for each phase or project to ensure replicability, compliance with standards, and growth of the company s knowledge base, while also factoring in how changes may impact database interactions.
- Communicate effectively with cross-functional teams including developers, product owners, and clients to ensure quick resolution of issues, with particular awareness of potential database-related impacts and their broader implications on the system.
- Provide regular feedback to developers, offering suggestions for improvements, evaluating issues, proposing solutions, and identifying further testing needs, while considering how software changes could indirectly affect database operations.
- Implement and maintain automated testing tools as needed, ensuring they are updated and aligned with current testing requirements, including any necessary updates to address database impact in automated test cases.
Skills and Experience:
- A Bachelor s degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Preferably has experience working with systems and machines, software development, or comes from a systems software background. Experience with kernel space or driver software development is highly desirable.
- At least 5 years of hands-on experience as a software test engineer.
- Strong knowledge of object-oriented design, microservices architecture, system architecture, and the ability to understand and work with software code.
- Solid understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
- Extensive experience in developing Test Plans, Test Cases, and Test Reports.
- Good working knowledge of testing .NET and C++-based desktop applications.
- Strong experience with manual testing and proficiency in various testing methodologies.
- Proficiency in automated testing, including the creation and maintenance of automated test environments, with a preference for experience in simulated test environments.
- Expertise with one or more UI test automation tools such as Selenium, Marathon
- Experience with scripting languages (such as Python)
- Hands-on experience with testing REST APIs.
- Proficient in testing software in Windows environments.
- Good knowledge of SQL and No-SQL databases.
- Familiarity with Agile methodologies, DevOps, and continuous testing environments.
- Ability to handle multiple teams and projects simultaneously while maintaining high standards of quality.
- Quick to adapt and learn complex systems and new technologies.
- Familiarity with open-source toolchains and technologies.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts clearly.
Job Classification
Industry: Industrial Equipment / MachineryFunctional Area / Department: Engineering - Software & QA, Role Category: Software DevelopmentRole: Software Development - OtherEmployement Type: Full timeContact Details:
Company: SmithsLocation(s): Kolkata+ View Contact
Keyskills: software testing automation testing test cases manual testing microservices sql software development life cycle automation tools ui selenium system architecture devops test planning testing methodologies test reporting communication skills
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