ApplyBoard Hiring for Quality Assurance Engineer at Gurgaon, Haryana Full Time

GURGAON /RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT – QUALITY /FULL-TIME

We’re building a movement – an education revolution.

We’re building a world where anyone, anywhere can have access to the best education regardless of where they were born. At our core, we believe education is a right, not a privilege. To that end, we’re building a company and a suite of products to lead the charge in transforming access to education.

ApplyBoard is an online platform that empowers students around the world to access the best education by connecting international students, recruitment partners, and academic institutions. We simplify the study abroad search, application, and acceptance process. Not only do we help students with their study abroad journey, but we also help academic institutions to find the best students globally. Our goal is to help enable better, more diverse, schools that are enriched with cultures from all over the world.

The Opportunity:
As the Quality Engineer, you are responsible for driving and ensuring the quality of the software. This includes the creation, evolvement, and tracking testing in concert with the establishment of appropriate test plans. The Quality Engineer will work and co-ordinate with the software engineers to measure and track the quality metrics including things such as defects and coverage. This role includes tracking the quality of issues and defects in production and ensuring that the issues are tracked and resolved appropriately.

The quality engineer will coordinate with the other members of the quality team to ensure that quality and testing is inclusive of integrations, system, and regression tests and test coverage is delivered.

What you’ll be doing every day:
Work with DevOPs/Development team to implement overall testing plan including unit testing, API and end to end tests

Create and execute comprehensible, repeatable, and measurable regression test suites for new and existing functionality.

Identify, evaluate, report and document defects during the design and implementation phase.

Escalate issues to Development and QA Management quickly and effectively.

Analyze, epics and stories to validate project requirements to achieve quality end user experience

Enhance enterprise standards where gaps exist

Help with root cause analysis, which may identify issues in the API, DB, reporting, front end or even requirements

Improve the quality and usefulness of existing features, by refactoring, decomposition, bug-fixing and preventive maintenance

Identify and act on opportunities to improve the way we plan, develop, test and deploy our software

Lead by example in the practice and promotion of excellence in software engineering

Serve as an active mentor to less-experienced developers

What you bring to the table:
Minimum 5 years of testing experience, ideally web based applications

Minimum 3 years of experience working in a TDD environment

Several years of practical experience developing and testing web-based commercial software that users love (in any modern tech stack)

Great communication skills. (Yes, everyone writes that – but we really mean it.)

Demonstrated ownership and pride in the quality of the software you work on, and the way that it succeeds in meeting the needs of its users

Work collaboratively in a team environment with Product Owners, Developers, Scrum Masters, DevOps, and IT to ensure delivery of a quality application.

Strong development experience with SQL, UNIX, JavaScript

Good written and oral communication skills

Bachelor of Science Degree or higher education (Computer Science or related field is an asset)

Ideally, you also have experience with some of:
Developing and maintaining products that are used by many thousands or millions of people

Cypress, Postman

Typescript, Node.js, Rails, React, Python

Kafka, Amazon MQ, RabbitMQ or similar streaming or messaging systems

EdTech, eCommerce, or content-management software

Relational databases, ORM frameworks, and their alternatives

Microservices or SOA; RESTful APIs, JSON

AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, ELK stack

DevOps, Observability, Infrastructure as Code

What We Offer:
The opportunity to have an impact on a product that is positively affecting change to thousands of students lives every day

Working alongside a brilliant and globally diverse team

Great compensation and benefits package to keep you healthy and happy!

Life at ApplyBoard:
By joining our team, you have the opportunity to be part of one of the fastest-growing technology companies, not only in Canada but the world. With that, you will have many opportunities for professional growth and advancement. Work alongside a globally diverse team of more than 1,000 team members from 25+ countries, representing 30+ nationalities, and speaking 50+ languages.

Make a difference in the lives of thousands of students as they explore educational opportunities.

About ApplyBoard:
ApplyBoard empowers students around the world to access the best education by simplifying the study abroad search, application, and acceptance process to more than 1,500 institutions across Canada, Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom. ApplyBoard, headquartered in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, has helped more than 200,000 students from more than 125 countries along their educational journeys since 2015.

ApplyBoard was named the fastest-growing technology company in Canada by Deloitte, ranking #1 on the Technology Fast 50™ list in 2019 and #2 in 2020. ApplyBoard was also been named to LinkedIn’s list of Top Startups in 2020 and TechTO’s list of top Canadian Rocketship companies to accelerate your career in the Tech Industry.

In 2021, ApplyBoard announced a C$375M Series D funding on a C$4B valuation. This funding will allow us to further invest in our technology, grow our team around the world, and serve more students on our mission to educate the world. Thank you for your interest in ApplyBoard. Please note that only qualified applicants that have been selected for an interview will be contacted.