FanCode - Software Development Engineer - Test III - Automation Testing (7-10 yrs)

FanCode is India's premier sports destination committed to giving fans a highly personalised experience across content and merchandise for a wide variety of sports.

Founded by sports industry veterans Yannick Colaco and Prasana Krishnan in March 2019, FanCode has over 100 million users.

It has partnered with domestic, international sports leagues and associations across multiple sports.

In content, FanCode offers interactive live streaming for sports with industry-first subscription formats like Match, Bundle and Tour Passes, along with monthly and annual subscriptions at affordable prices.

Through FanCode Shop, it also offers fans a wide range of sports merchandise for sporting teams, brands and leagues across the world.

Technology @ FanCode

We have one mission, Create a platform for all sports fans.

Built by sports fans for sports fans.

We're at the beginning of our story and growing at an incredible pace.

Our tech stack is hosted on AWS and is built on Cloudfront / AWS API Gateway, NGINX, Node.js / Java, Redis / ElastiCache and MySQL / Cassandra as our end to end stack.

Besides these, we heavily use Kafka, Spark, Redshift and other cutting edge tech to keep improving FanCode's performance.

As a data-driven team, we also use R, Python and other big data technologies for Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics.

SDET @ FanCode

As a key member of the Test and Release Engineering team, Driving both quality excellence and delivery velocity is important , you will work on building and optimizing the testing processes through automation and tooling.

You will be partnering with the dev teams to understand challenges in testing systems and come up with strategies to overcome those challenges to release faster with fewer bugs.

You'll be working closely with platform teams at FanCode to set up tools to not only ensure that releases are fast and stable but also that the required performance criteria is met.

Responsibilities :

- Design and deliver automaton and automation framework for products with a quality mindset

- Provide oversight through code and design reviews for features delivered by other developers within their scrum teams

- Participate in Test Design Review Board for integrating test plans within and across teams with focus on functional, business, complex scenarios, high impact projects, usability, and accessibility

- Organise and drive cross product testing

- Evangelist for Quality and Testing Innovation and Efficiency

- Monitor product and/or feature-level quality health metrics (testability, test health, test coverage, etc)

- Work closely with Senior developers, PMs, and UX Designers to ensure their features are delivered to meet business and quality requirements

- Troubleshoot production issues

- Provide coaching to leadership and others in your teams, as well as mentor team members.

- Larger participation in the hiring process: breadth of competencies, bringing others upto speed through shadows

Must haves :

- 7+ years of strong background in web application/ REST API automation testing and ability to do design and do code reviews for the work done by the Design & Architecture team

- Ability to write performant code and design automation frameworks and define automation strategy (functional & API) for a product

- Ability to plan projects (scoping, risk mitigation, dependency management, prioritisation, estimation, success criteria, quality metrics) keeping emphasis on automation with objectives.

- Ability to design and develop tools to aid testing Coding

Good to have :

- Ability to define the Testing/Automation strategy in the CI/CD architecture

- Experience in Cloud based infrastructure like AWS, GCP.

- Have gaming background and have good knowledge in any of the sports like Cricket, Kabaddi, Hockey or football

- Worked in a growing start-up environment