GDS Consulting_ Testing QA Engineer Senior

The opportunity

As a QA Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring software quality through comprehensive test planning, test design, execution, defect management, and reporting activities. You will collaborate with business stakeholders, developers, and cross-functional teams to ensure solutions meet business and customer expectations. The role demands working knowledge of test automation concepts and tools, with hands-on experience in Java-based automation frameworks.

Skills and attributes for success

• Mandatory experience in the Insurance domain, with Guidewire Property & Casualty (P&C) expertise considered a strong advantage.
• Strong understanding of Software Testing Fundamentals, QA methodologies, testing processes, and industry best practices.
• Ability to analyze business and functional requirements and translate them into effective test scenarios and test cases.
• Hands-on experience in Functional Testing, System Integration Testing (SIT), Regression Testing, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) support.
• Experience executing manual test cases and validating application functionality against defined requirements.
• Conduct end-to-end business process validation across integrated systems to ensure complete functional coverage and data integrity.
• Review and validate test cases, test evidence, and defect quality to improve overall testing effectiveness and coverage.
• Support test planning, test estimation, and testing status reporting for small to medium-sized projects and release
• Proven experience managing the complete defect lifecycle, including defect identification, logging, tracking, retesting, and closure.
• Experience handling change requests, impact assessments, and regression testing activities.
• Working knowledge of test automation concepts and frameworks, with exposure to tools such as Java Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, and RestAssured. Experience in Playwright is an added advantage
• Basic SQL knowledge for data validation and testing activities.
• Design and implementation of scalable automation frameworks.
• Experience integrating automation suites into CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of service virtualization and mock services
• Experience creating, enhancing, maintaining, and executing test assets to support quality assurance objectives.
• Generate Test Summary Reports
• Co-coordinating Test team members and Development team to resolve the issues
• Interacting with client-side people to solve issues and update status
• Able to lead team across geographies

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Graduate/Post Graduate with technical background
• 5-10 years of automation consulting experience across multiple platforms and varied domains
• At least 5 years of experience in test automation is MUST

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Good understanding of test automation frameworks and tools such as Selenium, TestNG, Cucumber, Playwright, Appium, and REST Assured.
• Experience identifying opportunities for test automation and recommending appropriate automation approaches to improve testing efficiency and coverage.
• Exposure to establishing or enhancing QA processes, testing methodologies, and quality assurance practices within projects or programs.
• Experience mentoring junior QA team members and promoting QA best practices within the team.
• Should have excellent communication skills & should be able to articulate concisely & clearly
• Should be ready to do an individual contributor as well as Team Leader role

What working at EY offers

At EY, we’re dedicated to helping our clients, from startups to Fortune 500 companies - and the work we do with them is as varied as they are.

You get to work with inspiring and meaningful projects. Our focus is education and coaching alongside practical experience to ensure your personal development. We value our employees and you will be able to control your own development with an individual progression plan. You will quickly grow into a responsible role with challenging and stimulating assignments. Moreover, you will be part of an interdisciplinary environment that emphasizes high quality and knowledge exchange. Plus, we offer:

• Support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around
• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you

If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

Join us in building a better working world.

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