Quality Analyst (QA)

Understand product requirements and translate them into effective test cases.

Perform manual functional, regression, UI, and integration testing.

Conduct thorough API testing using tools like Postman or Swagger.

Perform database validation using SQL queries to verify data integrity.

Create, manage, and execute detailed test plans and test cases.

Log and track defects using tools like JIRA, Bugzilla, or Azure DevOps.

Participate in Agile ceremonies (daily standups, sprint planning, retrospectives).

Collaborate closely with the development and product teams to reproduce issues and validate fixes

About Phi Commerce

Founded in 2015, Phi Commerce has created PayPhi, a ground-breaking omni-channel payment processing platform which processes digital payments at doorstep, online & in-store across variety of form factors such as cards, net-banking, UPI, Aadhaar, BharatQR, wallets, NEFT, RTGS, and NACH. The company was established with the objective to digitize white spaces in payments & go beyond routine payment processing.

Phi Commerce's PayPhi Digital Enablement suite has been developed with the mission of empowering very large untapped blue-ocean sectors dominated by offline payment modes such as cash & cheque to accept digital payments.

Core team comprises of industry veterans with complementary skill sets and nearly 100 years of global experience with noteworthy players such as Mastercard, Euronet, ICICI Bank, Opus Software and Electra Card Services.

Awards & Recognitions:

The company innovative work has been recognized at prestigious forums in short span of its existence:

• Certification of Recognition as StartUp by Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion.
• Winner of the "Best Payment Gateway" of the year award at Payments & Cards Awards 2018
• Winner at Payments & Cards Awards 2017 in 3 categories - Best Startup Of The Year, Best Online Payment Solution Of The Year- Consumer And Best Online Payment Solution Of The Year-Merchant,
• Winner of NPCI IDEATHON on Blockchain in Payments
• Shortlisted by Govt. of Maharashtra as top 100 start-ups pan-India across 8 sectors

About the role:

We are seeking an experienced and dynamic QA Manager to lead our quality assurance team in delivering high-quality software products for our organization. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in manual and automation testing, with hands-on experience in SQL, UNIX commands, STLC/SDLC, and managing QA for critical financial systems. You will be responsible for test strategy creation, resource planning, stakeholder communication, and ensuring process adherence to deliver robust and secure systems.

Key Responsibilities:

Team & Test Management

• Lead and manage a team of manual and automation testers, providing guidance, mentorship, and performance feedback.
• Define and execute test strategies and plans for each product release in alignment with business goals and timelines.
• Oversee test case design, execution, and test data management to ensure full coverage across all functionalities.
• Plan and manage QA deliverables in coordination with release and sprint planning.

Process & Quality Oversight

• Ensure compliance with STLC, SDLC, and Defect Management processes.
• Maintain and manage QA environments, ensuring they are up-t-date and aligned with production-like conditions.
• Implement best practices and continuously improve QA processes for efficiency and quality

Stakeholder & Communication Management

• Serve as a primary point of contact for all QA-related updates across internal teams and external partners.
• Provide regular DSR (Daily Status Reports) and WSR (Weekly Status Reports) to stakeholders.
• Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders regarding quality issues, risks, and expectations.

Technical Responsibilities

• Work with SQL for data validation and backend testing.
• Use UNIX commands for system checks, log analysis, and troubleshooting.
• Collaborate closely with developers, product managers, and release engineers to ensure high-quality deliverables.

Required Skills & Experience:

Technical Skills:

• Strong hands-on experience with SQL and UNIX/Linux commands.
• Proficient in manual test case creation and automation testing processes.
• Good understanding of QA tools like JIRA, TestRail, Confluence, and defect tracking systems.
• Knowledge of test automation frameworks and scripting languages (optional but a plus).

Domain Expertise:

• Solid understanding of payment systems, including ATM, E-commerce transactions, settlement, and reconciliation workflows.
• Experience in testing APIs, transaction flows, chargebacks, refunds, and financial reporting systems.

Leadership & Soft Skills:

• Proven experience in leading QA teams and managing test resources effectively.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to identify root causes of defects and quality issues.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills for effective collaboration across teams and stakeholders.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of total QA experience with at least 2 years in a QA leadership/ managerial role.
• Experience in fintech, banking, or payment processing environments is strongly preferred

• Design appropriate test strategy and test cases
• Timely delivery of software projects, support incident fixes
• Effective communication of requirements, issues, reports on regular basis
• Proven experience in manual testing
• Solid understanding of QA processes, approaches, methodologies and software development life cycle, and ability to apply the knowledge in daily operations
• Experience specifying, establishing, and managing test environments and test data for Manual testing projects
• Ability to document and troubleshoot errors
• Experience in delivering software using Agile methods
• Expertise in using Jira
• Ability to analyze & maintain existing solutions
• Knowledge or experience in Selenium, Java, BDD Test Design

• Defining, implementing and executing regression and stress automation tests focused on embedded software and device firmware level
• Analyzing automation test results for failures, identifying issue trends and quantifying impact
• Isolating and reporting defects effectively quantifying customer impact and verifying fixes through regression testing and other test methodologies
• Working cross-functionally with other QA teams, Developers and Project Managers

Desired Candidate Profile

• BE– CS/ECE, MS, ME, MTech
• 2+ years of QA experience, preferably on consumer hardware/ software products
• Automation experience in modern scripting or compiled languages (Python, JavaScript, C etc.)
• Experience with hardware and/ or software development lifecycle processes
• Knowledge of Unix and Unix shell scripting
• Ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience
• Deep understanding of SQA methodologies and practices
• Ability to solve hard problems with creative and sustainable solutions
• Be detail-oriented and strive for the best product for our customers
• Self-motivated with the ability to drive features to delivery
• Should have strong hands on experience in developing applications
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Good logical sense, strong technical skills and the ability to learn new technologies quickly    

Skills:

* Should have excellent manual testing skills.
* Good knowledge in automation testing using Selenium WebDriver.
* Should have good written & communications skills to write the test cases and documentation.
* Good Analytical skill, Proactive, Capability of thinking through a scenario.
* Knowledge in mobile automation testing using Appium is a plus point.

Responsibilities:

• Creation of automated test scripts to reduce the amount of time and effort spent on testing.
• Strongly adhere to specification and style guides.
• Ensure the application meets the performance, quality and targets.
• Leverage new and established testing methodologies.
• Translate the given design document into proper Test Cases for maintainability.
• Work hand-in-hand with developers to understand the flow of modules and document it.

• Execution of test cases/test scripts for manual/automation testing.
• Should have working knowledge of SQL server.
• Design and create test conditions and scripts to address business and technical use cases.
• Analyze data and results of tests, record defects, provide status.
• Document, track and escalate issues as appropriate, using JIRA or similar tools/means.
• Participate in troubleshooting and triaging of issues with different teams to drive towards root cause identification and resolution.
• Build Deployment on Test Environment.

Requirements:

• Experience in end-to-end user testing for minimum 1-2 yrs.
• Have prior experience with manual testing in web and Android applications.
• Logging bugs, detailed test reports, screenshots, and videos in the bug tracker during pre-release and post-release testing.
• User & usability testing on the design prototypes being passed to the development team.
• Well versed with Agile testing methodologies.
• Opportunity to define, design, tool and implement entire Automated testing using Selenium/TestNG/Appium or any other tool of choice.
• Ability to stick to deadlines.
• Manage regular exploratory testing campaigns by employing a large number of short-term remote testers.
• Ability to operate in white-spaces where ambiguity or lack of knowledge might be imminent in tackling problems. In short, love the entire startup experience.
• Good Knowledge of Core Java.
• Good Knowledge in Selenium.
• Troubleshoot problems related to scripts, framework components,application changes, etc., and repair issues.
• Experience in working with Agile Projects and Scrum Process.
• Enable and/or perform development of test automation by designing and writing automated test scripts based on defined test cases,including the definition of test data for consumption by scripts during test execution.
• Must have experience in writing TDD and BDD test cases.
• Analyze test logs, and report test results/metrics.