Manual QA-Testing - Pune (Sept 2021)

  • Full-time

Company Description

Customized Energy Solutions (CES), a privately-held company, is a leading service provider of market intelligence and operational support services to companies participating in the retail and wholesale electric and natural gas markets. Utilizing deep know-how developed since the inception of the deregulated energy markets, CES provides accurate & timely analysis on regulatory changes, market opportunities, and operational efficiencies for electricity and natural gas commodities.

Join a rapidly growing company in an exciting and dynamic work environment. As one of the top 100 fastest growing companies in the Philadelphia region, Customized Energy Solutions offers an opportunity for significant professional growth. Our team of associates at CES is highly motivated, innovative, and passionate about providing excellent Services to our clients. We look for individuals interested in growing with our company, and working in an exciting, open and collegial work environment. Our main office is in Philadelphia, with satellite offices in various U.S. states, Canada, Japan and in India.

Job Description

The Manual QA is responsible to ensure solution quality through testing. One of their key responsibilities is to write tests (manual and/or automated).
The tester has full responsibility and authority to decide if a feature developed by the team is completed or not. The tester needs to quickly gain intimate knowledge of the product to ensure that his feedback to the team is aligned with the business vision of Applications.

 

Responsibilities

  • Build functional Test Plans and Test Cases based on the business requirements and user stories
  • Document bugs in Defect-Tracking system and re-test the fixed bugs
  • Assist other team members, as necessary, with Requirement Clarification, Test Design and approach, understanding of functional user perspective etc.
  • Design and execute Functional and non-functional tests for Web and mobile applications, APIs and Web Services, Relational Databases through SQL
  • Cross train and mentor other QA team members
  • Responsible for on time, quality releases of software application
  • Work closely with Development team to resolve issues

 

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of experience with testing in fast-paced sprint cycles including manual acceptance testing at story level and exploratory / creative testing
  • Skilled at finding hidden requirements, edge cases, and a “desire to break” attitude
  • Strong analytical and quantitative skills
  • Experience with both Agile/Scrum and Waterfall system development life cycle methodologies 
  • Excellent verbal and written skills to communicate in a clear and effective manner in the English language
  • Ability to work independently and collaboratively
  • Understand the role of testing within the software development lifecycle and business-related project constraints, and effectively advocate for the best possible customer experience of product quality within those parameters.
  • Update test execution status following agreed-upon processes as part of
  • Regularly scheduled test status updates.
  • Responsible for quality of Software applications at all times.
  • Ability to work well in a deadline-driven team environment

 

Preferred  

  • Advanced degree in Computer Science Engineering, or Information Technology 
  • Experience with writing Functional, Non-functional, edge cases using Test Strategies
  • Understanding of Wholesale Energy and Ancillary Services, Billing, and Settlements  
  • Experience with Atlassian SDLC tools, particularly Jira
  • Industry standard testing certification, such as Certified with ISTQB, or equivalent

 

 

Additional Information

Customized Energy Solutions offers competitive salary commensurate with experience.  Benefits include performance bonuses, profit sharing, Medical Savings Accounts, comprehensive health Insurance, disability insurance, life insurance, EPF, and tuition reimbursement.

In current pandemic situation , work from home is permitted and working in the office will be based on the prevailing government permissions.