Software Test Engineer

Job Description – Senior QA Engineer (Banking & Financial Applications)Position

Job Title: Senior QA Engineer

Experience: 3+ Years

Employment Type: Full-Time

Department: Quality Assurance

Role Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled and proactive Senior QA Lead to take ownership of quality assurance across our banking and financial applications. The ideal candidate will be responsible for planning, managing, and executing end-to-end testing activities while leading a team of QA engineers.

This role requires a strong blend of technical expertise, leadership, client communication, and quality governance. The candidate will be expected to interact directly with customers and stakeholders, manage testing initiatives across multiple platforms, drive quality improvements, and lead the organization's transition from predominantly manual testing to scalable automation testing practices.

The successful candidate must possess excellent communication skills, strong analytical thinking, and the ability to confidently represent the QA function in both internal and client-facing discussions.

Key ResponsibilitiesQuality Assurance Leadership

• Own and manage the complete Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Define QA strategy, testing methodologies, standards, and best practices.
• Establish quality benchmarks and release readiness criteria.
• Ensure delivery of high-quality software across all products and releases.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives within the QA function.
• Monitor product quality metrics and provide regular reporting to management.

Manual Testing & Quality Management

• Design, review, and execute detailed test plans, test scenarios, and test cases.
• Perform functional, regression, integration, system, exploratory, smoke, and user acceptance testing.
• Validate complex business workflows within banking and financial systems.
• Identify, document, track, and verify defects through closure.
• Ensure adequate test coverage across all business-critical features.
• Perform root cause analysis for production issues and quality incidents.

Test Automation Leadership

• Drive the organization's automation testing strategy.
• Identify manual testing areas suitable for automation.
• Build and maintain automation roadmaps and implementation plans.
• Work closely with engineering teams to improve automated test coverage.
• Establish automation frameworks, standards, and coding practices.
• Continuously improve automation efficiency and execution reliability.
• Measure and report automation coverage and effectiveness.

Team Leadership & Management

• Lead and mentor a team of QA engineers.
• Allocate work and monitor team performance and deliverables.
• Conduct test reviews and quality audits.
• Support team development through coaching and knowledge-sharing.
• Establish accountability and ownership within the QA team.
• Assist in hiring, onboarding, and training QA resources when required.

Client & Stakeholder Management

• Act as the primary QA representative in client interactions.
• Conduct customer calls, demonstrations, and quality review meetings.
• Communicate testing progress, risks, issues, and mitigation plans.
• Handle client concerns and escalations professionally and diplomatically.
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Business Analysts, Developers, DevOps teams, and senior leadership.
• Build strong stakeholder relationships through clear and effective communication.

Banking Domain Quality Assurance

• Validate banking, financial, and transaction-based workflows.
• Ensure accuracy of financial calculations, reconciliations, and transaction processing.
• Test security-sensitive and compliance-driven functionality.
• Verify integration with third-party financial systems, APIs, and services.
• Understand business-critical workflows and identify potential quality risks.

Required Technical SkillsTesting Expertise

• Strong experience in Manual Testing.
• Strong understanding of Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Strong understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Experience in Functional Testing.
• Regression Testing.
• Integration Testing.
• System Testing.
• User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Exploratory Testing.
• Smoke & Sanity Testing.
• Defect Lifecycle Management.

Automation Testing

Hands-on experience with one or more of:

• Selenium
• Playwright
• Cypress
• Appium

Experience with:

• Test automation framework design
• Automated regression suites
• Cross-browser testing
• Test execution pipelines
• Automation reporting and analysis

API Testing

• Postman
• REST APIs
• API Validation
• API Automation
• JSON/XML Validation

Database Testing

• SQL
• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• Data Validation
• Query Analysis

Ability to:

• Write and execute SQL queries.
• Validate backend data against application workflows.
• Investigate data-related defects.

Frontend & Backend Understanding

The candidate should possess a good functional understanding of:

Frontend

• HTML
• CSS
• JavaScript fundamentals
• Browser Developer Tools

Backend

• API architecture
• Authentication mechanisms
• Database concepts
• Application logs and troubleshooting
• Client-server architecture

Tools & Platforms

Experience with:

• Jira
• Azure DevOps
• TestRail (preferred)
• Confluence
• Git
• CI/CD Pipelines

Exposure to:

• Jenkins
• GitHub Actions
• GitLab CI/CD

Required Soft SkillsCommunication

• Excellent verbal and written English communication.
• Ability to conduct client-facing meetings independently.
• Strong presentation and documentation skills.
• Ability to communicate technical and non-technical concepts clearly.

Leadership

• Team management and mentoring experience.
• Ownership-driven mindset.
• Ability to drive outcomes with minimal supervision.
• Strong decision-making capabilities.

Stakeholder Management

• Professional and diplomatic communication style.
• Strong customer relationship management skills.
• Ability to handle escalations and difficult conversations effectively.
• Experience coordinating across multiple teams and departments.

Personal Attributes

• Highly proactive and self-motivated.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking abilities.
• Detail-oriented with a quality-first mindset.
• Strong problem-solving capabilities.
• Ability to work in fast-paced environments.
• Excellent organizational and planning skills.
• Strong sense of accountability and ownership.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Banking, FinTech, Payments, Lending, NBFC, or Financial Services domains.
• Experience working with enterprise-scale applications.
• Exposure to security and compliance testing.
• Experience in Agile/Scrum environments.
• ISTQB Certification (preferred).
• Experience driving QA transformation initiatives from manual testing to automation-first testing.

Key Success Indicators

The selected candidate will be expected to:

• Own and drive product quality across all releases.
• Lead and manage the QA team effectively.
• Improve automation coverage and reduce manual testing effort over time.
• Ensure smooth release cycles with minimal production defects.
• Build strong client relationships through professional communication.
• Proactively identify risks and drive timely resolutions.
• Establish a scalable and mature QA process across the organization.

Review Criteria

• Strong UAT / Functional Test Lead Profiles
• Minimum 7 years of overall testing experience, with at least 3 years of recent UAT experience, primarily in manual testing for large enterprise or government project
• Must have worked on minimum 2 national-level e-Governance, public sector, enterprise, or marketplace projects in a UAT lead or ownership role
• 3+ years of team handling experience, leading 7–8 QA/UAT members, including task assignment, review, mentoring, and delivery ownership
• Must have complete ownership of UAT activities, including UAT planning, execution, acceptance sign-off, defect management, retesting, and regression cycles.
• Must have strong hands-on manual testing experience, with the ability to create test scenarios and test cases from BRDs, user stories, functional documents, and Figma/UI screens.
• Must be able to understand HLD/LLD documents and API specifications and perform manual API testing based on business logic.
• Must have BE/BTech/MTech/MBA (BSc/BCA alone is not acceptable; with Bsc/BCA candidates must have a relevant postgraduate degree MCA/MTech)
• Do not consider candidates with automation-heavy profiles or those lacking strong manual UAT and leadership experience
• Candidate must be based within Delhi NCR (100 km radius)

Preferred

• (Certification): ISTQB Advanced Test Manager or equivalent is preferred

Job Specific Criteria

• CV Attachment is mandatory
• Have you worked on at least 2 national-level e-Governance / enterprise / marketplace projects, If yes, Name the projects and company where you did these projects?
• What was the maximum team size of QA you have managed?
• How many years of Manual Testing experience?
• How many years of Automation Testing experience?
• Name two relevant UAT projects you have worked on?
• Are you willing to relocate to Delhi and why (if not from Delhi)?
• Are you available for a face-to-face round?

Role & Responsibilities

• 8 + years’ experience in UAT, with at least 2 National-level e-Governance solutions / Enterprise platforms / Marketplace projects.
• Proficiency in test planning, execution oversight, acceptance criteria definition, defect triage, regression cycle management.
• Proficient in understanding business requirements by going through BRDs, User Stories, Figma screens to define test scenarios and test cases.
• Ability to analyze high level and low-level design documents, API specifications to identify the business logic developed and create test cases to test the APIs.
• Hands-on experience of defining high quality test scenarios, test cases with ability to review and guide the test team members in doing the same.
• Education/Certifications: B.E./ B.Tech. / MTech/ MCA/ MS (Computer Science/IT)/ISTQB Advanced Test Manager or equivalent required.

Ideal Candidate

• 8 + years’ experience in UAT, with at least 2 National-level e-Governance solutions / Enterprise platforms / Marketplace projects.
• Proficiency in test planning, execution oversight, acceptance criteria definition, defect triage, regression cycle management.
• Proficient in understanding business requirements by going through BRDs, User Stories, Figma screens to define test scenarios and test cases.
• Ability to analyze high level and low-level design documents, API specifications to identify the business logic developed and create test cases to test the APIs.
• Hands-on experience of defining high quality test scenarios, test cases with ability to review and guide the test team members in doing the same.
• Education/Certifications: B.E./ B.Tech. / MTech/ MCA/ MS (Computer Science/IT)/ISTQB Advanced Test Manager or equivalent required.

• Managing the solving of problems concerning the test automation infrastructure
• Understand and maintain Test Automation Frameworks.
• Follow the coding standards and code walk through.
• Maintain Automation Standards and Processes documentation.
• Write automated test scripts under the direction of the Test Automation Lead.
• Ability to work independently on tasks / modules assigned related to automation
• Monitoring of and reporting on the progress of the test automation process
• Reporting on the quality of the test object
• Raise risks on time and provide alternate solutions to mitigate the risk
• Advice and support for the implementation of all types of tools

We're looking for a QA Engineer to help with manual testing as well as introduce automation to our processes where possible. Candidates will need to be familiar with and able to write scripts, set up automation processes, and familiarise themselves with the products we build (web and mobile apps).

• The role will also require you to document test cases with an understanding of what the product does and how the end-user might approach it.
• Understand functional and non-functional testing requirements of web and mobile applications.
• Document functional testing scenarios and cases, for manual testing of API functionality using Postman and manual testing of User Interface elements (web, mobile, and mobile web)
• Identify or create data for testing
• Execute test cases and record status
• Log defects identified and track them through retesting and closure
• Debug using ADB commands and tools like Charles Proxy to primarily identify the root cause of failures.

Skill:

• Good understanding of mobile and web applications functionality
• Good understanding of how APIs work functionally
• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes
• Experience in writing clear, concise, and comprehensive test plans and test cases
• Hands-on experience with both white box and black box testing
• Non-functional testing of mobile applications including but not limited to battery analysis, GPU overdraw, responsiveness, etc.

1. Development and Test Automation experience through Test Driven Development (TDD)
2. Establishing and executing Automated testing strategy for mobile apps with Tools like Perfecto Mobile/Appium or Web Driver/Selenium, TestNG and continuous integration tools like Jenkins, Git, Stampede etc.
3. Sound knowledge in JAVA is must have
4. Experience in Mobile AppDev and Test management tool (JIRA, qTest) and
5. Monitoring/Troubleshooting Tools Splunk, DynaTrace, SOAP UI 

1.  2+ of experience in producing test plans and creating test UI scripts/cases
2. Good experience of the management of all or part of the Mobile AppDev and UI Test execution phase in projects
3. Work in Agile methodology with TDD
4. Experience in API and Database Automated Testing
5.  Hands on experience of iOS (Objective C/Swift) and Android (Kotlin) technologies
6. Hands on experience in developing test artifacts and processes. Should have done test reporting with good clarity and no ambiguity
7. Experienced working in an onshore/offshore environment with flexible and adaptable working style to work with aggressive project schedules
8. Good communication and interpersonal skills
9. Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office, Excel, PowerPoint.

• 3+ years demonstrated experience in the Testing Web & mobile applications.
• 1+ Years of experience in Js based Web application testing. (Like: Angular Js, Vue Js, react js)
• Create and maintain API-based automation test scripts using tools like J meter, SoapUI or Postman
• API Automation using Soap UI/Rest assured / Postman (Mandatory)
• Create and maintain API specific test plans
• Conducting Performance and Load tests on the API's and provide detailed report and analysis on metrics like Breakage point etc.
• Participate in creating and clarifying User Stories, and in planning Sprints.
• Maintaining all the testing artefacts in SharePoint.
• Updating test management tools (JIRA / Bugzilla etc) so that the current status of the project can be known at any time by stakeholders.
• Issue tracking, analysis and reporting.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.