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.

Location: Ahmedabad (Temporary WFH)

Designation: QA Engineer

Experience: Fresher to 3 Years

Salary: As per market standards

Responsibilities

1-Should have played a vital role in Setting up Automation Frameworks, Processes, and Standards.

2-Expert proficiency in automation scripting using Java or other scripting languages.

3-Experience in using automation tools like Selenium/Webdriver, Sikuli, Junit/JMeter, etc.

4-Good expertise in System, Regression, Smoke, Sanity, Ad-Hoc, Browser Compatibility, and Interface testing.

5-Prepare test case for Functional, Non-Functional, Integration and Usability, UI.

6-Experienced with a defect and bug tracking tools like Bugzilla, JIRA, etc.

7-Hands on experience in Test Planning, Test designing, and Test Execution, Defect Tracking & Defect Reporting.

8-Experience working in an agile development environment and scrum methodologies.

9- Involvement in setting up Test Environments, Requirements Management, Requirement Analysis.

10-Good understanding of database.

11-Should have experience in API testing.

12- Should have knowledge of payment gateway testing.

13- Good Knowledge of Performance Testing, Regression Testing, DataBase testing, Android Testing.

Qualifications

Education: B.E/B.Tech BCA/MCA

• 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 are seeking a talented QA automation engineer to design testing procedures for our software applications. In this role, will be responsible for analyzing the functionality of applications and designing automated tests to validate their performance. You will also be required to identify bugs, install databases, and collaborate with the software design team.

To ensure success as a QA automation engineer, you should have advanced programming skills, a keen eye for detail, and excellent project management skills. A skilled QA automation engineer can design and write efficient test procedures for every software application.

QA Automation Engineer Responsibilities:

• Meeting with the software design team to discuss verification protocols.
• Identifying software application weaknesses and target areas.
• Sketching out ideas for automated software test procedures.
• Reviewing software bug reports and highlighting problem areas.
• Writing automation scripts and implementing software applications.
• Designing and installing software databases.
• Troubleshooting automation software and finalizing system procedures.
• Identifying quality issues and creating test reports.
• Collaborating with the design team to solve application faults.

QA Automation Engineer Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or a similar field.
• Previous experience working as a QA automation engineer.
• Advanced programming skills including automation systems and databases.
• Must have worked on Selenium,Cucumber,Maven
• Familiarity with programming script languages including Java and VBScript.
• Excellent analytical skills.
• Detailed knowledge of application functions, bug fixing, and testing protocols.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Good project management skills.

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.

We are seeking a skilled QA engineer who has experience in automation. Candidates from startup eco-system will be preferred.

Requirements:

• Have worked on JS based automation framework i.e. Protractor or Puppeteer.
• Have minimum of 2 years of strong experience in front-end automation.
• Understand how Single Page Apps work.
• Experience of automating API tests (our current automation is via C#).
• Understand how CI/CD works.
• Learn-ability and a good team player.