Senior QA Engineer

Quick Facts About the Role

Role: Senior QA Engineer

Location: Hyderabad

YOE: 6+ years

Skills: Manual testing, Automation testing, performance testing, Tricentis, QA Test, Spira, Quality Center, Test Rail, Playwright (C#), Selenium, Opkey, Rapise, Testim, Postman, Toad, SSMS, DbVisualizer

Benefits: Learn more about our perks below

Compensation: Competitive compensation as per industry standards.

Who we are

We are Foxsense Innovations - a bunch of passionate developers that love solving complex business problems through products and tools we build from scratch. We've been at it for over 7 years now, and we've serviced over 50 happy customers around the world, while also building several in-house micro-SaaS tools for the market (all of this while being bootstrapped and profitable). Our team is rapidly growing, and we're in an exciting phase of our 1-10 journey. This is an opportunity for anyone who wants to experience this journey with us.

About the role:

The Senior QA Engineer is an experienced individual contributor responsible for independently ensuring the quality, reliability, and usability of the Firm’s custom, enterprise-scale software solutions. This role partners closely with delivery teams to plan, execute, and evolve testing approaches across features and applications, with an increased emphasis on automation, risk assessment, and quality advocacy. The position represents a fully independent QA professional who exercises sound judgment, influences delivery outcomes, and supports the development of less experienced QA team members.

Technical Environment & Delivery Context:

Quality Assurance team members operate within cross-functional delivery teams, often aligned to DevOps-based practices, supporting custom, enterprise-scale applications used across the Firm. These solutions primarily consist of modern, web-based platforms built on Microsoft technologies, along with integrated systems that require thorough functional, integration, performance, and regression testing.

The QA function emphasizes a balanced approach to manual and automated testing, with a strong focus on shifting left to build quality into the delivery lifecycle. Team members collaborate closely with Product Owners, Software Engineers, DevOps Engineers, Database experts, and other stakeholders throughout the secure software development lifecycle (SSDLC). Project management and documentation tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Smartsheet, Confluence, and SharePoint are leveraged to support planning, execution, and communication.

Automated testing is a core component of the Firm’s software quality strategy. QA team members leverage automated testing tools such as Playwright, Rapise, and Opkey, along with test management tools such as Spira, to design, execute, and maintain reliable test suites. Testing activities are integrated into delivery practices and, where applicable, CI/CD pipelines to support timely and predictable releases.

The blameless culture we are striving for values continuous improvement, pragmatic risk-based testing, clear communication of quality insights, and ongoing development of both technical and domain expertise.

Responsibilities:

Team Contribution & Collaboration

• Serve as an active and influential member of cross-functional delivery teams, participating in planning, refinement, standups, reviews, retrospectives, and release activities.
• Partner with Software Engineers, Product Owners, and other stakeholders to clarify requirements, acceptance criteria, and quality expectations.
• Communicate testing progress, risks, and quality insights clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Quality Assurance & Testing

• Plan and execute end-to-end testing for assigned features, components, or applications.
• Design, maintain, and evolve manual and automated test cases and test suites aligned with delivery priorities.
• Independently execute and analyze automated test results, identifying gaps and opportunities for improvement.
• Perform functional, integration, regression, and exploratory testing to assess quality and risk.
• Identify, document, prioritize, and communicate defects and quality concerns using established defect-tracking tools.
• Contribute to test strategy discussions and provide recommendations to improve test coverage and efficiency.

Automation & Tooling

• Actively contribute to the development and maintenance of automated test suites using Firm-standard tools.
• Collaborate with other QA team members and Software Engineers to improve automation reliability and maintainability.
• Apply automation best practices and promote consistent testing approaches across delivery teams.

Mentorship & Continuous Improvement

• Provide guidance and informal mentorship to team members.
• Share knowledge, testing techniques, and lessons learned with the broader QA community.
• Participate in continuous improvement initiatives related to QA practices, tools, and standards.

Requirements:

• Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC) and Software Testing Lifecycle (STLC)
• Agile delivery methodologies and DevOps-aligned practices
• Test planning, execution, and defect management concepts
• Quality engineering principles and risk-based testing approaches

Bonus Skills:

• Ability to independently plan and execute testing activities across complex features or applications
• Ability to leverage automated testing tools such as Playwright, Rapise, Opkey, or similar frameworks
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail
• Ability to clearly document and communicate test results, defects, and quality risks
• Strong collaboration and interpersonal skills
• Ability to mentor and support the development of less experienced QA team members
• CTFL, CSQA, CSQE or similar certification or demonstrated ability to target testing through techniques such as boundary, equivalence, state transition

Why work with us

When you work with Foxsense Innovations, you donʼt just work a boring job. Our goal is to create a work environment that makes you want to brag about your work to your friends!

Hereʼs why youʼll love working with us:

• Unlimited sick leave policy, and a generous paid leave plan to ensure you get time off work whenever you need it
• A competitive and rewarding start-up culture that motivates you from day one, along with regular team-building activities
• Delicious lunch along with snacks and refreshments at office, so that hunger pangs never affect your A-game
• We have a yearly annual retreat for the team to unwind and enjoy - we went to Kodaikanal this year, who knows where we will go next year!

If that's not enough, there's always more!

• Need a breather? Game with Foxes at the TT. There's a scoreboard!
• Our wholesome health care plans care for you - whenever, wherever.
• Embrace growth! Learn & grow from peers - You'll find budding freshers, seasoned veterans - you name it.
• We take unwinding as seriously as we do hustling - game nights are our way of downtime.
• Collaboration is vital for us - your value isn’t limited to your responsibilities! Feel free to lurk in other departments and share your thoughts!

Weʼre glad you've made it this far! If you’re passionate about building scalable and impactful software while growing in a dynamic environment, we’d love to have you on board.