Head - Quality Assurance - IT

- Work with some of the sharpest minds from Silicon Valley and build a team

Client Details:

Our client is a well-funded Gurgaon and San Francisco based start-up that analyses data to help investors make better decisions. They build tools, processes, and algorithms to power investors with cutting-edge proprietary insights. Their customers are some of the biggest and best names out there managing multiple billions of dollars of money.

Job Description:

- Be responsible for the end to end ownership of a QA team, including setting the technical vision for developing test frameworks and automation for our systems

- Be responsible for ensuring quality of a large and complex financial data application

- Work with the product team to anticipate and devise test planning and look for potential pitfalls right from the ideation stage

- Understand specifications; estimate, prioritise, generate comprehensive test plans and test scripts

- Build a comprehensive suite of reusable and automated test cases to provide full test coverage for our applications

- Coordinate and lead efforts for cross functional testing and/or third party integration tasks

- Create processes and tests to check data correctness and completeness

Profile:

- 6+ years of hands-on experience with defining test strategy, writing test plans, and designing and executing software tests

- Solid knowledge of QA testing techniques to determine appropriate number of test iterations and applying risk-based testing concepts

- Experience testing both web applications and back end services, including functional API testing, integration testing, and UI functionality and usability testing

- Strong problem-solving skills

- Experience with distributed systems handling large amount of data

- Excellent coding skills in Java/J2EE or equivalent technology

- Good understanding of relational and NoSQL databases

- Should have experience working in product companies

Job Offer:

- Opportunity to work with some of the sharpest minds in the data analytics space across the globe