About the role

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.

Quality Engineer