Associate QA - Manual Testing

QA Engineer

Who are we? 

The first solution of its kind, BlueOptima provides insights based on the world’s only objective software developer productivity metrics: Actual Coding Effort. It’s a breakthrough for software development.The technology has been implemented by some of the world’s largest organisations including insurance companies, telecoms and nine of the world’s top sixteen Universal Banks. This successful product uptake has led to rapid expansion of the company.

Our HQ is in London, UK with international offices in New York, India and Mexico.

BlueOptima is an Equal Opportunities employer.

Whom are we looking for? 

Our ground-breaking work requires talented software engineers to solve complex technical challenges.

We are hiring for a QA Engineer, to join our growing company and be a part of our success story. We are looking for a talented QA Engineer with deep experience of software testing procedure and analytical skills to join our research and development team in India.

What does the role involve? 

This QA engineer will be responsible for all aspects of our test procedures. They will work closely with Head of Software Development, Development and Sales teams to identify the best strategies for designing, developing and maintaining testing strategies for testing UI, Web Services and Testing of Web Services, writing and maintaining test suites. 
 
The QA Engineer will be part of a high-performance global software development team and should have strong interpersonal, communication and analytical skills.

Responsibilities include

  • Develop and execute test cases
  • Work with Engineering & Product team to understand use cases and create tests
  • Defect management
  • Understand functional requirements
  • Maintaining and improving current Testing strategies and suites.
  • Perform QA tasks to meet customer needs
  • Coming up with out of box scenarios to edge cases for features.
  • Provide testing analysis
  • Familiarity with Windows and Linux development environments
  • Maintaining smooth flow of releases with Team Leads
  • Owning critical pieces of application

Required Skills

  • Minimum 1+ years’ experience in QA and testing.
  • Strong knowledge of QA methodologies, tools and processes.
  • Minimum Bachelor degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills
  • Having expertise in defect management and reporting.
  • Having exceptional analytical and problem solving skills. 
  • Experience in Ad-hoc, Functional, Regression and Sanity/Smoke testing.

Nice to have Skills

  • Working experience with JIRA
  • Having basic knowledge of programming knowledge in Java
  • Having prior basic experience in Automation testing using selenium or similar tool.
  • Experience with testing distributed systems.
  • Experience testing on Web Services and UI technology.
  • Knowledge of testing APIs with Postman or similar tool.
  • Able to write basic SQL queries. 


Why work for us?


  • Above market remuneration
  • Stimulating challenges that fully utilise your skills
  • Travel opportunities to BlueOptima's international offices
  • Work on real-world technical problems to which solution cannot simply be found on the internet
  • Working alongside other passionate, talented engineers
  • Our fast-growing company offers the potential for rapid career progression


Experience Band

1-2 yrs



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