Fynd - Software Development Engineer I/II - Test - Manual/Automation Testing (3-6 yrs)

Fynd is India's largest omnichannel platform and multi-platform tech company with expertise in retail tech and products in AI, ML, big data ops, gaming+crypto, image editing and learning space. Founded in 2012 by 3 IIT Bombay alumni: Farooq Adam, Harsh Shah and Sreeraman MG. We are headquartered in Mumbai and have 1000+ brands under management, more than 10k stores and servicing 23k + pin codes.

What will you do at Fynd ?

- Play an active role in SDET during all phases of our product development from requirements elaboration, design/development, test and deployment

- Responsible for manual and automated testing activities for a multi-tier web-based platform. This includes writing test cases based on business requirements, test data creation, creating and maintaining automated scripts to test front-end, API's and database changes

- Execution of the test phase consistent with the overall project schedules

- Direct interaction/facilitation of bug resolution with engineering teams

- Works effectively within a dynamic team environment following standards and best practices and ensure the highest level of quality

- Ability to understand the technical architecture, its implementation, design patterns, data representations and infrastructure powering these systems.

- Work closely with SDEs and solution architects to understand the tech stack, design and accordingly build the test frameworks, setup infra and build execution models to drive the end-to-end quality efforts of backend systems/services and client apps

- Should be able to debug test failures, read through logs, network calls and make preliminary root cause analysis of defect/bug

- Should be able to develop test plans, test cases, test design documents with good coverage and optimised testing approach

- Should be able to identify the test cases qualifying for test automation

- Creating and maintaining all QA related documentation throughout the process

- Use of tracking tools to log, manage, resolve and report on

Some specific Requirements :

- Proficiency in Python

- Good understanding of REST APIs and a solid experience in testing APIs. Should have built APIs at some point and practical knowledge on working with them

- Must have experience in API testing tools like Postman and in setting up the prerequisites and post execution validations using these tools

- Ability to develop applications for test automation

- Should have worked in a distributed micro-service environment

- Hands-on experience with Python packages for testing (preferably pytest). Should be able to create fixtures, mock objects and datasets that can be used by tests across different micro-services

- Proficiency in git

- Strong in writing SQL queries

- Tools like Jira, Asana or similar bug tracking tool, Confluence - Wiki, Jenkins - CI tool

- Excellent written and oral communication and organisational skills with the ability to work within a growing company with increasing needs

- At least 2 - 4 years of professional experience in quality assurance or/and software application development

- Proven track record of ability to handle time-critical projects

Good to have :

- Good understanding of CI/CD

- Knowledge of queues, especially Kafka

- Ability to independently manage test environment deployments and handle issues around it

- Performed load testing of API endpoints

- Should have built an API test automation framework from scratch and maintained it

- Knowledge of cloud platforms like AWS, Azure

- Knowledge of different browsers and cross-platform operating systems

- Knowledge of JavaScript

- 2+ years experience in test automation using tools like TestNG, Selenium Webdriver (Grid, parallel, SauceLabs), Mocha_Chai front-end and backend test automation

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / IT / Computer Applications