About Circles

Founded in 2014, Circles is a global technology company that’s reimagining the telco industry with its SaaS platform, Circles X, and helping operators launch and operate successful brands.

Today, Circles is partnering operators in 13 countries to deliver delightful digital experiences to millions of people through our businesses.

With Circles.Life, our digital lifestyle brand, we empower and delight customers across the world by offering digital experiences that go beyond traditional telco services.

With Circles X, our digital telco technology empowers operators to launch digital telco brands from anywhere in the world. Built for operators by an operator, Circles X powers both Circles.Life and our partner operators’ digital telco brands.

Circles is backed by global investors such as Sequoia, Warburg Pincus, EDBI and Founders Fund – renowned institutions with a track record of backing industry-shaking innovators.

Job Description

Circles.Life is looking for candidates with a passion for Quality & Excellence, who possess superior analytical skills, energy, drive and attention to details, to drive the development of automation frameworks and high test automation coverage for our backend systems.

Do you want to continually make code quality go up and raise the bar for everybody! Do you believe in and enforce Test Driven Development, get to define testing strategies, and get a kick out of uncovering those hard-to-find bugs. If you are up to the challenge then this is for you.

As a key member of our team, your responsibilities include:

• Understand the use cases for products and come up with changes to the automation framework and platform APIs that will help us automate relevant scenarios faster and more reliably.
• Enhancing and maintaining automation frameworks for scalability, stability, and performance.
• Be obsessed about automated test coverage for backend APIs & workflows and strive to incorporate a wide range of functional and end-to-end scenarios into automated test suites.
• Interacting and collaborating with the product team and QA teams to identify and understand testing requirements to automate.
• Partner with CI/CD team and SRE teams to ensure that automated tests contribute effectively to the deployment pipeline and site availability needs.

Requirements

• Having worked on 1 or more backend languages like Java (Must have), Golang, NodeJS etc.
• Knowledge of tools, concepts and methodologies of testing (Unit, Functional Testing, Component Testing, Integration Testing) and where each one applies.
• Exposure to any open source testing tools like Rest Assured (API automation), Cucumber, Appium, Selenium Web driver, etc.
• Automation scripting, development of test frameworks and platforms is a plus.
• Must understand the fundamentals of Automation frameworks and how they fit into the quality infrastructure and deployment pipelines.
• Work experience and knowledge of architectures involving databases (SQL, NoSQL), Message Queues and Caching technologies.
• Familiar with SDLC/STLC or Agile processes.
• Aptitude for functional testing and ensuring a high-quality user experience for products.
• Aptitude for understanding and reviewing the system design & architecture, to come up with effective automation coverage.
• Must be able to debug logs, troubleshoot databases, aptitude for operations principles and comfortable interacting with SRE & DevOps teams.
• Hands-on experience in mobile app automation is a plus
• Minimum 1 -3 years of experience in SDET domain

Nice to Have

• Exposure to Continuous Deployment pipelines
• Knowledge of docker, and implementing the automation tests in dockerized containers in a Kubernetes environment

What’s on offer

We provide a great environment and platform for employees to build their career. In this role, you can expect:

•       Unique opportunity to be a part of innovating the telecommunications industry.
•       Once in a lifetime chance to help shape a brand from the ground up.
•       Autonomy in the role and in managing your own portfolio.
•       Exposure to the fast-paced world of high-tech start-ups.
•       Attractive experience and compensation.
•       Working with passionate, smart and driven colleagues in a vibrant environment.
•       Get continuous mentoring to fast-track your career.