SDET-2 (Backend Tester)

Company Introduction:

Games24x7 is India’s leading and most valuable multi-gaming unicorn. We’re a full-stack gaming company, offering awesome game playing experiences to over 100 million players through our products - RummyCircle, India’s first and largest online rummy platform, My11Circle, the country’s fastest growing fantasy sports platform.

A pioneer in the online skill gaming industry in India, Games24x7 was founded in 2006 when two New York University trained economists Bhavin Pandya, and Trivikraman Thampy met at the computer lab and discovered their shared passion for online games. We’ve always been a technology company at heart, and over the last decade and a half, we’ve built the organisation on a strong foundation of ‘the science of gaming’, leveraging behavioural science, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to provide immersive and hyper-personalised gaming experiences to each of our players.

Backed by marquee investors including Tiger Global Management, The Raine Group, and Malabar Investment Advisors, Games24x7 is leading the charge in India’s gaming revolution, constantly innovating and offering novel entertainment to players!  

Our 800+ passionate teammates create their magic from our offices in Mumbai, Bengaluru, New Delhi, Miami, and Philadelphia.

*Games24x7 is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by the law.*

For more information and career opportunities you may visit www.games24x7.com.

Summary of Role

This position is for a tester with strong coding skills who likes challenges - someone who is constantly striving for excellence in software test automation and tool development.

Responsibilities include:

·            Participate in Requirement Analysis. Identify areas of focus during testing and QC; and communicate these clearly to product owners and senior management.

·            Understand and Analyze the Functional & Regression scope of Product Development items. Assign resources to various projects so that their utilization is maximized.

·            Good in designing different automation framework/Architecture based on project need.

·            For any new type of feature or technology able to make progress without any guidance on both fronts.

·            Come up with technology suggestions and implementation ( Tools & Framework improvements)

·            Coordinate across teams for complete feature deliverables.

·            Explore, Implementation & usage of code coverage tools

·            Responsiveness: Availability to work on critical issues in any area, during time of stress.

·            Curiosity & appetite to learn: Would have acquired detailed understanding of the overall system. Number of secondary code reviews performed Always discussing alternatives for the existing automation tech stack to keep it current.

·            Mentoring: Demonstrated an ability to mentor junior members of the team, and leading thought-provoking technical conversations, be it pertaining to the current tech stack or new emerging technologies.

·            Good to have: Knowledge of CI/CD & Agile process.

·            Good to have: Performance/Load testing experience

Minimum Job Qualifications:

·            Bachelor’s degree or better in CS or related field, with 4+ years experience in software test development, including creating/maintaining test automation frameworks from scratch

·            Exposure to best practices in SQA and software development, including code reviews, debugging, troubleshooting and CI processes

·            Experience in front-end (APP & Web) & API automation, preferably using tools like Selenium/Rest Assured with a framework like TestNG

·            Strong in Core Java fundamentals and Object Oriented Programming concepts.

·            API-Testing: Knowledge of API-level testing in Java, including but not limited to RESTful web service testing.

·            Excellent communications and technical presentation skills

·            Initiative to research and build solutions to tough problems in domains like Flash, OpenGL, WebGL where off-the-shelf automation tools might not be available

·            Some experience/comfort with working in a Linux/Unix environment

·            Excellent analytical, problem-solving, troubleshooting skills.

Non-Technical Skills

·            Must be a good communicator in oral and written modes.

·            Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail. Applicant will be required to demonstrate the ability to break down a complex problem into a set of simpler ones.

·            The applicant must display superior ownership levels and the ability to think out of their own or their team’s area of responsibility.

·            The applicant must have a history of taking up more and more challenging assignments over the years. They should be able to demonstrate their contribution to the quality of the products they were responsible for.

·            Knowledge of Gaming domain and products is desirable.