QA Lead

Overview

Company name: Appsmith | HQ Location: San Francisco, California | Website | LinkedIn

Role: QA Lead

• Salary: Rs. 50-65 lakhs per year
• Experience: 8+ years
• Location: Remote
• Type: Full-time

You will be responsible for mentoring and upskilling the team in testing expertise. Your responsibilities will also include writing best practices and ensuring they are followed. Additionally, you will develop processes and ensure adherence to them. You'll contribute to driving major engineering initiatives define quality metrics and help QA engineers grow professionally.

It will be your duty to ensure bug prevention through shift left testing and acting as a champion for quality within the organization. You will advocate for the adoption of quality-focused practices across all stages of the development lifecycle. You will work closely with QA, SDET, PM, and Engineers to ensure the success of the product.

What you need to bring

1. 8+ years of experience testing software built using React/Angular for a SaaS product. This experience helps you understand the software development life cycle and the pitfalls of buggy software.
2. Hands-on experience with SQL and NoSQL databases.
3. You should have a keen eye for identifying UI bugs and UX challenges.
4. Has previous experience in mentoring and working within an organization that utilizes a shift-left testing methodology.
5. Appsmith’s client-side code is written in React. Your experience with cross browser testing will ensure that you are able to understand and communicate the nuances of the product with the rest of the development team.
6. Software products are only as stable as the APIs they are built on. You should have a good understanding of RESTful APIs and should have worked on API testing tools like Postman before.
7. You should be able to design and execute test cases.
8. We follow agile methodology for software development. You should be able to plan and execute work as per sprints.
9. Should have good problem solving ability.
10. Past experience with testing applications built using Java will be useful.
11. You should be well-versed in identifying and tracking software metrics.

Nice to have skills

1. Having worked on developer-focused products is an added bonus. This helps you understand our users and their requirements better.
2. We love open source. Any contributions that you’ve made to any open source projects will hold you in good stead.

About us
Appsmith is an open-source low-code application platform that simplifies custom application development for businesses, allowing them to streamline operations, automate processes, quickly integrate multiple apps and data, and enhance legacy applications with new features. Unlike traditional low-code platforms, the Appsmith platform is lightweight, extremely developer-friendly, and designed to fully integrate within modern SDLC processes.

Appsmith easily connects to a wide range of databases, APIs, and SaaS applications, and provides drag-and-drop UI building tools that are 10x faster than UI development using Angular or React frameworks. Appsmith pairs low-code speed with full-code flexibility and control. Developers can customize business logic, data sources, and UI elements using JavaScript, import their own JavaScript libraries, and manage code in a centralized IDE.

Appsmith allows full-stack and backend developers, systems administrators, and data teams to quickly build highly-functional dashboards, admin panels, customer 360, IT automation, and service management tools that span multiple data sources.