Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Job title : Senior QA Engineer (Mobile Team)Experience level : 5 to 8 yearsLocation : Kochi (Onsite with 5 days a week)Employment Type : Full-timeAbout the Company :Portrave Solutions Pvt. Ltd. is an India-based offshore software development partner with over 18 years of experience, serving 350+ global clients across 20+ countries. They specialise in building highly skilled virtual teams of developers, designers and marketers, delivering services in domains such as mobile apps, custom software, web development, cloud and DevOps. Their mission is to empower businesses by leveraging state-of-the-art technology, design innovation and strategic digital marketing to bring ideas to life.Responsibilities : - Be a key member of the software quality assurance team helping to ensure the quality and reliability of our mobile apps and SaaS platform.- Ensure that the work you and other team members produce is fit for use by our customers.- You will join our Quality Assurance team and you will report to the Senior Quality Assurance Manager.- Benefit from working in a multi-disciplinary team, that uses modern software and product development techniques, and values continuous improvement.- Maintaining up-to-date knowledge and documentation of tests.- Working with Colleagues to ensure the platform and data are tested and maintained in the on a continuous basis.- Learn new skills to test and maintain automation tests to maintain product quality for our customers.- Work independently, without needing a set of already formulated acceptance criteria or test cases to further explore the application and find possible coverage gaps.- Gain deep knowledge of product functionality.- Be a creative thinker and problem solver and collaborate and communicate with team members and community; we welcome people who are willing to challenge established norms.- Define your career path and embrace the opportunity to grow and learn.Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required :- BS degree in Engineering or Computer Science or equivalent experience- This Senior QA Engineer role, which focuses on test automation, is also applicable to Software Development Engineers in Test (SDETs) with a strong background in automation frameworks and coding.- Experienced candidates with 5+ years in both Test Automation and 3+ years of experience in Manual testing working in Senior QA Engineer or similar role.- Experience in using Android and IOS devices which includes real and mobile emulators setup.- In depth understanding of both manual and automation testing and show examples of learning new skills in the past.- Results based individual with a proven track record to proactively identify issues/ problems and provide solutions.- An innovative team member able to think outside of the box who possesses the ability to proactively identify risks and potential issues whilst having the ability to resolve them.- An individual who can prioritise workload and can work on tasks in parallel.- Ability to acquire subject matter expertise in assigned area of business.- Hands on experience with aspects of both functional and non-functional test phases.- Ability to work and collaborate in a team-based environment.- A thought partner with the ability to drive initiatives to completion with no supervision.- Good understanding and previous working experience of Appium and Dart programming and design pattern experience in Page Object Model.- Experience using Google Firebase, TestFlight and Android Studio.- Previous experience working with BrowerStack, Lambda test and/or similar tools to support cross browser, simulators for test automation.- Experience using Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment pipelines and code repositories with tools such as Jenkins and GitHub.- Knowledge and understanding of SQL syntax and ability to write SQL queries.- Ability to read, write, maintain, and execute both manual and automation tests.- Contribute to the QA Guild and sharing best practices.- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.- Individual has the proven experience and ability to support operations team by resolving production incidents which are assigned to them in an appropriate time framework.- Proven experience in supporting, coordinating, and ensuring all releases in Production have been validated successfully.Nice to have :- An individual having previously testing experience of Flutter, Native and SDKs applications.- Experience of using Ubuntu.- Building CI/CD pipelines for post deployment verification.- Hands on experience in security testing- Experience in Contract testing.- Use of confluence JIRA, and X-Ray Test Management Tool.Working Conditions :Office based : 5 days in Kochi office and shift time will be from 11 am to 8pm IST. (ref:hirist.tech)