SDET

Location

Hyderabad | India

Job description

GradRight is the world’s first SaaS platform that brings together students, banks and universities to power smarter ‘Selection and ‘Financing’ of college education. 

Using data science, technology and strategic partnerships across the industry, we are enabling students to find the ‘Right University’ at the ‘Right Cost’. We are on a mission to aid a million students to find their best-fit universities and finance them at the lowest cost, by 2025.

Our flagship product - FundRight is the world’s first student loan bidding platform. In a short span of 10 months, we have facilitated disbursements of more than $ 50 million in loans this year and we are poised to scale up rapidly. Our second product - SelectRight is an innovative approach to college selection and student recruitment for students and universities, respectively. The product rests on the three pillars of data science, transparency and ethics and hopes to create value for students and universities. 

In just two years, GradRight has enabled students to get the best deals on a $ 1.75 Billion of loan requests and facilitated disbursements of more than $ 175 Million in loans. GradRight was Ranked 1 in the HSBC Fintech Innovation Challenge supported by the Ministry of Electronics & IT, Government of India & were among the top 7 global finalists in The PIEoneer awards hosted by The PIE News, UK.

GradRight’s team of 200+ members is led by alumni of IIT Delhi, BITS Pilani, IIT Roorkee, ISB Hyderabad and University of Pennsylvania and has significant experience in building successful brands in the education sector of India. GradRight is a USA registered company with a wholly owned subsidiary in India.

Brief:

Quality is paramount at GradRight and as an SDET, you’ll own it. You will have a 360-degree view of how software quality impacts the entire business, with which you’ll identify and address problem areas, contribute to testing efforts on a daily basis as well as participate in setting up an impeccable QA organization for the long term.

Responsibilities:

1. Participate in sprint ceremonies and work with engineers, PMs and UX designers to understand feature requirements that can be converted into test cases
   

2. Write/maintain test suites for new features, products and feature updates
   

3. Contribute to discussions around writing testable code and ensure that sprints come to a successful closure while taking QA into consideration
   

4. Constantly strive to keep test coverage to the highest possible level
   

5. Be the release owner - create test plans, monitor execution, report on test execution and work with engineers to ensure that bugs are fixed before releases
   

6. Build testing frameworks to help improve the velocity of QA efforts across the organization
   

7. Work with production support engineers to troubleshoot issues before handing them off to the engineering team, while owning issue resolution
   

Requirements:

1. At least 3 years experience as an SDET
   

2. Expertise in various testing methodologies like functional, integration, black box, performance, etc
   

3. Expertise in writing end to end automation tests for both mobile and web applications using frameworks like Selenium, Appium, Nightwatch, REST-Assured, etc
   

4. Experience in designing QA strategy and developing corresponding test automation scripts/frameworks
   

5. Passion for documentation and writing clean code
   

6. Strong understanding of software development workflows and agile tools like JIRA
   

7. Proficient in at least one programming language
   

8. Exposure to software design principles and patterns
   

9. Excellent written and verbal communication skills
   

Good to have:

1. Experience in CI/CD and cloud infrastructure management
   

2. Worked on products that addressed an international audience
   

3. Worked on products that scaled to millions of users
   

Requirements

Responsibilities:

1. Participate in sprint ceremonies and work with engineers, PMs and UX designers to understand feature requirements that can be converted into test cases
   

2. Write/maintain test suites for new features, products and feature updates
   

3. Contribute to discussions around writing testable code and ensure that sprints come to a successful closure while taking QA into consideration
   

4. Constantly strive to keep test coverage to the highest possible level
   

5. Be the release owner - create test plans, monitor execution, report on test execution and work with engineers to ensure that bugs are fixed before releases
   

6. Build testing frameworks to help improve the velocity of QA efforts across the organization
   

7. Work with production support engineers to troubleshoot issues before handing them off to the engineering team, while owning issue resolution
   

Requirements:

1. At least 3 years experience as an SDET
   

2. Expertise in various testing methodologies like functional, integration, black box, performance, etc
   

3. Expertise in writing end to end automation tests for both mobile and web applications using frameworks like Selenium, Appium, Nightwatch, REST-Assured, etc
   

4. Experience in designing QA strategy and developing corresponding test automation scripts/frameworks
   

5. Passion for documentation and writing clean code
   

6. Strong understanding of software development workflows and agile tools like JIRA
   

7. Proficient in at least one programming language
   

8. Exposure to software design principles and patterns
   

9. Excellent written and verbal communication skills
   

Good to have:

1. Experience in CI/CD and cloud infrastructure management
   

2. Worked on products that addressed an international audience
   

3. Worked on products that scaled to millions of users
   

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