Quality Engineer

The candidate will have responsibilities across the following functions:

Product Understanding and Quality Planning:

• Know the domain/business: Understand business workflows, customer journeys, business objectives, product requirements and key operational processes.
• Participate in requirement reviews, backlog grooming, sprint planning, and design discussions.
• Identify quality risks, dependencies, and test coverage requirements during the early stages of development.
• Apply risk-based testing principles to maximise quality and coverage.
• Design test strategies, test scenarios, test cases, and test data for assigned features and releases.

Quality Validation and Release Support:

• Own quality validation for assigned modules and releases.
• Execute functional, integration, regression, exploratory, and end-to-end testing.
• Validate business rules, workflows, user journeys, and data integrity.
• Perform API, UI testing and defect management with clear impact analysis.
• Participate in defect analysis, perform root cause analysis of escaped defects and contribute to preventive actions.
• Ensure quality during QA, UAT support, release rollout, and post-release validation.

Automation and Engineering Excellence:

• Adopt an engineering-first mindset towards quality and test automation.
• Develop, maintain, and execute automated UI and API test cases.
• Identify regression scenarios suitable for automation.
• Promote shift-left quality practices, early defect prevention and continuous process improvement.
• Work closely with Product, Engineering and DevOps teams to continuously improve quality practices.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, Computer Science, IT or equivalent.
• 2-4 years of experience in Software Testing / Quality Engineering.
• Strong manual testing experience for business applications.
• Hands-on experience with Java, Selenium, TestNG and Rest Assured.
• Good understanding of API, integration, end-to-end testing and defect management.
• Basic SQL and database validation skills.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and communication skills.

Good to Have:

• Experience in B2B Commerce, Retail, Marketplace, Supply Chain or Fintech domains.
• Exposure to Microservices and Cloud-based applications.