Lead QA Engineer

At SmartBear, we deliver the complete visibility developers need to make each release better than the last. Our award winning and industry favorite tools   TestComplete, Swagger, Cucumber, ReadyAPI, Zephyr   are trusted by over 16 million developers, testers, and software engineers at 32,000+ organizations – including world-renowned innovators like Adobe, JetBlue, FedEx, and Microsoft.   Lead QA Engineer - ReadyAPI   Build and shape development practices on a tangible industry, a leading API development product. Play a critical role in technical implementation, customer usage models, and the development of test plans and test suites. Tech stack: JavaScript, HTTP, REST, Websockets, GraphQL, SOAP, gRPC, Apache Kafka, Git, Docker The successful candidate will work from our Bangalore office in hybrid model Product intro   ReadyAPI  allows teams to create, manage, and execute automated functional, security, and performance tests in one centralized interface.  With ReadyAPI development teams around the world (e.g. NASA, FedEx, ...) can test API types like REST, SOAP, Apache Kafka, MQTT.  Record live API traffic, or virtualizing web services to remove pipeline dependencies. Finally integrates with GIT, JIRA, Slack, Jenkins and many more development tools.  Go to our product page if you want to know more about  ReadyAPI   You can even have a free trial to check it out 😊   About the role   As Lead QA Engineer you will work with acceptance testing, regression testing, test automation and overall providing the highest quality experience to users.  Identify business requirements and work closely with the product owner, developers to find solutions, providing feedback and ensuring they are fit for purpose  Write acceptance criteria for requirements  Perform manual testing (exploratory and non-functional) and log results  Review results of automated tests and log defects  Performance, stress test  Identify, maintain and drive bespoke test automation solutions  Monitor and measure test coverage to improve test scenarios  Provide feedback/input on the techniques, solutions and tools used throughout projects  We are looking for you if you have:    5+ years of experience with JavaScript for test automation, tools and frameworks such as SoapUI, ReadyAPI or other API testing tools, Cypress  BDD approach to software development Experience in test automation within an Agile environment  A risk-based approach to testing  Non-functional aspects of web application testing, such as UI, Accessibility, Security and Performance Experience in following would be a big plus: MQTT, JIRA, OAuth2, JMS, Jenkins, AWS  Why you should join the SmartBear crew:   You can grow your career at every level.  We invest in your success as well as the spaces where our teams come together to work, collaborate, and have fun. We love celebrating our SmartBears; we even encourage our crew to take their birthdays off. We are guided by a People and Culture organization - an important distinction for us. We think about our team holistically – the whole person.  We celebrate our differences in experiences, viewpoints, and identities because we know it leads to better outcomes.  Did you know? Our main goal at SmartBear is to make our technology-driven world a better place.  SmartBear is committed to ethical corporate practices and social responsibility, promoting good in all the communities we serve.  SmartBear is headquartered in Somerville, MA with offices across the world including Galway Ireland, Bath, UK, Wroclaw, Poland and Bangalore, India.  We’ve won major industry (product and company) awards including B2B Innovators Award, Content Marketing Association, IntellyX Digital Innovator and BuiltIn Best Places to Work. SmartBear is an equal employment opportunity employer and encourages success based on our individual merits and abilities without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, ancestry, mental or physical disability, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, medical condition, sex, sex stereotyping, pregnancy (which includes pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), or any other legally protected status.   #LI-JC4