QA Engineer II

Careem is building the Everything App for the greater Middle East, making it easier than ever to move around, order food and groceries, manage payments, and more. Careem is led by a powerful purpose to simplify and improve the lives of people and build an awesome organisation that inspires. Since 2012, Careem has created earnings for over 2.5 million Captains, simplified the lives of over 70 million customers, and built a platform for the region’s best talent to thrive and for entrepreneurs to scale their businesses. Careem operates in over 70 cities across 10 countries, from Morocco to Pakistan.

About the team

At Careem, the mission for the NextGen Programme is to help grow our engineers by learning how to support the QA function within Careem, write Clean Code and use SOLID principle techniques. The ultimate goal is to train new engineers to build excellent foundations with high standards. Our Programme covers vast areas in engineering:  QA, Backend, Frontend, Web, Mobile, Data Analysis, MLOps, Infrastructure and Cyber Security.

About the role:
Our QA engineers support the QA function for a squad within Careem.
New successful candidates should be passionate and an experienced QA Engineers. They should be brimming with enthusiasm and have brilliant testing ideas.

What you`ll do:

• Reviewing functional and design specifications to ensure full understanding of individual deliverables.
• Working with the project team to provide Testing Estimates
• Holding & facilitating test plan/case reviews with cross-functional team members
• Executing & evaluating manual and/or automated test cases and report test results
• Holding & facilitating bug triaging meetings with cross-functional team members
• Participating in root cause analysis meetings with cross-functional team members
• Ensuring that validated deliverables meet requirements.
• Contributing proactively in sprint ceremonies or any ceremonies the squad follows

What you`ll need:

Qualifications:

• A Computer Science degree, equivalent qualification or practical experience
• Minimum of 2.5 years and maximum of 4 years of experience in QA.
• Testing certifications ISTQB - CTFL

Characteristics:

• Passionate about quality delivery embrace Quality testing mindset
• A solid understanding of QA/Testing technology including SDLC - STLC and Defect life cycle.
• Experience in programming languages such as JavaScript - Python and Java
• Ability to problem solve, multi-task effectively and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
• Ability to work independently with a strong sense of focus, task-oriented and importantly, a team player.

Knowledge and experience in:

• Strong practical knowledge and experience of testing methodologies; Agile , Kanban & Waterfall
• Strong Knowledge in development practices and Process including Unit Testing
• Strong practical knowledge and experience of testing techniques; integration - E2E - UAT- UI
• Strong practical knowledge and experience in testing methods such as Exploratory and Risk based.
• Strong practical knowledge and experience of generating test cases from requirements.
• Strong practical knowledge and experience of defect management.
• Strong practical knowledge and experience of testing mobile apps (Android - IOS) and Web based sites
• Strong practical knowledge and experience of testing different API methods and able to differentiate between the error codes. 

Desirable:

• Practical knowledge and experience of test automation tools; Sofy, BDD, Maestro, JMeter, Postman, Rest-assured and Selenium.
• Practical knowledge in CICD pipelines and deployment process in a Cloud based environment in addition to tools such as Jenkins and Bitrise
• Practical knowledge and experience of distributed version control systems including GIT

What we’ll provide you

We offer colleagues the opportunity to drive impact in the region while they learn and grow. As a full time Careem colleague, you will be able to:

• Work and learn from great minds by joining a community of inspiring colleagues.
• Put your passion to work in a purposeful organisation dedicated to creating impact in a region with a lot of untapped potential.
• Explore new opportunities to learn and grow every day.
• Work 4 days a week in office & 1 day from home, and remotely from any country in the world for 30 days a year with unlimited vacation days per year. (If you are in an individual contributor role in tech, you will have 2 office days a week and 3 to work from home.)
• Access to healthcare benefits and fitness reimbursements for health activities including gym, health club, and training classes.