{"id":1432471,"url":"https://alion.io/job/empower-sr-engineer-quality","title":"Sr Engineer Quality","company":{"id":3694,"name":"Empower","domain":"empower.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/empower","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":100,"open_postings":14,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0.214,"time_to_fill_p50_days":11,"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Industrial Engineering","role_family":"Industrial Engineering","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Bengaluru, India"],"countries":["IN"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":13500,"max_usd":31000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":20},"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"Copilot","optional":false},{"name":"ETL/ELT","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"SQL","optional":false}],"status":"closed","first_seen_at":"2026-09-28T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-28","last_verified_at":"2026-09-29T23:29:24Z","board_verified":false,"closed_at":"2026-09-29T23:29:24Z","days_open":1,"trust":{"level":"not_scored","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":1},"description":"Our vision for the future is based on the idea that transforming financial lives starts by giving our people the freedom to transform their own. We have a flexible work environment, and fluid career paths. We not only encourage but celebrate internal mobility. We also recognize the importance of purpose, well-being, and work-life balance. Within Empower and our communities, we work hard to create a welcoming and inclusive environment, and our associates dedicate thousands of hours to volunteering for causes that matter most to them.\nChart your own path and grow your career while helping more customers achieve financial freedom. Empower Yourself.\nThis role is to drive and implement a comprehensive test strategy using appropriate testing tools and techniques. This\nrole designs and delivers quality tests, automated data testing scenarios, may require development experience in python,\nETL, SQL and others. This role also facilitates knowledge transfers to other testers within the department.\nESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:\nTo work closely with BSAs and developers to understand and define the system requirements/acceptance criteria of user stories and upcoming features. To understand the impact of said software on other areas of the system. To identify gaps in the requirements.\nTo identify the scope of testing including systems integration and regression testing. To apply test techniques to ensure coverage.\nTo work with development to ensure a comprehensive and robust suite of automated tests from unit and integration tests to user journey tests.\nTo identify data requirements to satisfy test cases and create and maintain test data.\nTo ensure continuous exploratory/manual testing of each functional area/user story against different layers of the system such as the web service layer, user interface layer.\nto check outputs including screen, file, and database updates to ensure system effectiveness.\nTo ensure comprehensive test strategies are in place for non-functional areas such as performance and load.\nTo ensure processes used within the team meet quality standards and champion the use of new practices where appropriate.\nTo discuss and review outputs produced by team members and ensure standards across the team are maintained.\nTo demonstrate working functionality/user stories to the product owner and/or during team showcases.\nTo provide input into user story points/estimates.\nQUALIFICATIONS:\nBachelor’s degree or equivalent related experience\nFive plus years’ experience in a QA/Testing technical role.\nProven track record of testing software developments in a structured environment.\nExperience of defect lifecycle and ability to advise on tests to put in place after fixes are made.\nAbility to work in a continually changing environment, adapting to changing requirements and priorities at short notice.\nExcellent understanding of test levels (from unit tests to UAT) and ability to advise the team on what to test (and what not to test) as part of a cohesive testing strategy.\nAbility to propose improvements on project practices and processes to improve effectiveness of the team and delivery of the software.\nSound technical skills; understanding of high-level system architecture components such as application servers, databases, and web services.\nUnderstanding of basic programming constructs.\nExperience in one or more test frameworks and scripting automated functional tests.\nGood team player with excellent written and verbal communication skills. Ability to interact and collaborate with people from development, business analysis, project management and SME disciplines.\nExperience working on user stories and defining clear acceptance criteria.\nGood experience in API and Microservices testing.\nGood experience in test frameworks and scripting automated functional tests.\nExperience with working in an AWS environment preferred\nExperience with creating test cases using GitHub copilot preferred\nGood experience in Accessibility and security testing will be a value add.\nGood experience in Functional Testing, End-to-End, Regression, and Smoke Testing tasks.\nExcellent verbal and written communication skills\nStrong sense of self-motivation, organization and attention to detail; strong analytical and problem-solving skills\nAbility to quickly comprehend project goals/requirements, identify gap/omissions and testing challenges/impediments\nEstablish collaborative relationships with other teams to ensure success of project test phases\nAnticipate problems or issues that may arise, forecast high risk areas in software and drive resolution\nProvide timely and meaningful test result updates to management\nThis job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications of the job. The employer has the right to revise this job description at any time. You will be evaluated in part based on your performance of the responsibilities and/or tasks listed in this job description. You may be required perform other duties that are not included on this job description. The job description is not a contract for employment, and either you or the employer may terminate employment at any time, for any reason, as per terms and conditions of your employment\ncontract.\nWe are an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to diversity. All individuals, regardless of personal characteristics, are encouraged to apply. 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