QA Automation Architect

at Simpplr

Gurugram, India

**Who We Are**:
Simpplr provides employee experience software that helps companies connect and align employees. With what Simpplr calls Live EX, the platform helps companies communicate better in a distributed world and measures an organization’s heartbeat by understanding employee alignment and sentiment in real time. Ultimately, Simpplr aims to enable more positive work environments by helping organizations be more open and caring.

Trusted by leading brands, including DocuSign, Eurostar, and AAA, our customers are achieving measurable productivity gains, increased employee engagement and retention, and accelerated business performance.

Simpplr is headquartered in Redwood Shores, CA, with offices in the UK, Canada, and India, and is backed by Norwest Venture Partners, Salesforce Ventures, and Tola Capital. Simpplr is widely acknowledged as one of the fastest-growing, most innovative, and most liked solutions in our market. We boast numerous top-tier accolades and encourage you to check us out on various review sites.

**QA Automation Architect**:
**About Simpplr**:
Simpplr is an employee experience company that helps companies connect and engage employees across the enterprise. The Simpplr platform helps employees better communicate with coworkers, find information, and transfer knowledge. Simpplr was built to help businesses not only create an immersive and inspiring digital workplace but also to reinforce their unique culture. We aim to break the barriers of traditional work environments to deliver a better workplace, anywhere.

Trusted by leading brands, including DocuSign, Eurostar, and AAA, our customers are achieving measurable productivity gains, increased employee engagement and retention, and accelerated business performance.

Simpplr is headquartered in Redwood Shores, CA with offices in the UK and India, and is backed by Norwest Venture Partners and Salesforce Ventures.

**The opportunity**:
This is a hands-on individual contributor role, wherein you would not be managing any people, but would be responsible for driving the technical excellence for the quality team. You will be responsible for setting the QA best practices for everyone in the organization, and defining the QA automation strategy for the organization.

**What will you be doing?**
- Have complete technical ownership of the QA automation efforts within Simpplr
- Ensure that QA automation is an integral part of our CI/CD process, and we are able to ship code to production daily
- Involved in hands on coding/implementation of automation tests, implementing new test frameworks, and improving the existing ones
- Recruit, hire, scale and act as a leader for a growing QA automation team.

**What makes you a great fit for us?**
- 12+ years of overall experience in software testing or development
- 10+ years of experience in automation testing
- Expertise in designing & implementing automation frameworks ground up
- Experience in testing for localisation and internationalization
- Hands-on experience with Selenium and Appium is a must
- Good programming skills & understanding of Java
- Good knowledge of API testing tools like REST Assured, JMeter and Postman
- Proficiency with SQL & relational databases
- Strong understanding of software testing methodologies
- Exposure to Agile / Scrum methodologies
- Prior experience in leading & mentoring a small team of testers
- Good interpersonal and communication skills

**We’d specially love to hear from you if**
- You believe that building a culture of learning trumps everything else
- Your current or previous avatars include working with product based startups
- You have prior experience in working with microservices-based architectures
- You are absolutely focused on providing the best user experience for your customers

**Benefits**:
Simpplr provides a competitive compensation package along with other benefits. We believe in work-life integration and offer a flexible work environment. These benefits, coupled with an amazing team who believes in our mission, and values transparency, autonomy, and inclusiveness, make Simpplr an incredible place to work.

**See what our employees say about working at Simpplr**: Glassdoor Reviews

**Benefits**:
Simpplr provides a competitive compensation package along with other benefits. We believe in work-life integration and offer a flexible work environment. These benefits, coupled with an amazing team who believes in our mission, and values transparency, autonomy, and inclusiveness, make Simpplr an incredible place to work.