Senior QA Engineer - Functional System Testing & Contact Center Domain
Location: Pune
Experience Level: 7+ Years
Job Type: Full-Time
Industry: SaaS / Contact Center Software
Role Overview
We are seeking a highly skilled and detail-oriented Senior QA Engineer with deep expertise in Functional System Testing, End-to-End (E2E) Validation, Integration Testing with Contact Center domain workflows ina SaaS cloud platform. The ideal candidate must possess strong critical thinking abilities, exceptionalexploratory testing mastery, and a proven track record of uncovering complex, customer-impacting defectsacross distributed enterprise systems.This role focuses heavily on validating real-world customer journeys, multi-system integrations,omnichannel workflows, backend processing, APIs, data consistency, and enterprise-scale businessscenarios within a cloud-based contact center platform.The candidate must demonstrate an investigative testing mindset with the ability to challengeassumptions, identify hidden risks, design high-value test scenarios, and execute advanced exploratorytesting techniques across complex integrated systems.
Core Responsibilities
- Design and execute comprehensive Functional, System, Integration, and End-to-End testscenarios for complex contact center workflows.
- Expertise in heuristic-driven, Mind Map Driven Test Exploration and advanced risk-basedexploratory testing across distributed enterprise systems
- Proven capability in identifying intermittent, concurrency, resiliency, and workflow integrationdefects.
- Validate omnichannel customer journeys including voice, chat, email, routing, reporting,analytics, agent desktop, and supervisor workflows.
- Perform deep integration testing across APIs, microservices, databases, event streams, backendservices, and third-party systems.
- Apply advanced exploratory testing techniques to uncover edge-case defects, workflowinconsistencies, concurrency issues, and hidden integration failures.
- Drive critical-thinking-based testing by identifying risk areas, unusual user behaviors, negativescenarios, and high-impact business failure points.
- Design extensive test permutations and combinations across configurations, workflows, userroles, deployments, and data variations.
- Perform backend validation using SQL/NoSQL databases and log analysis to validate dataintegrity and transaction consistency.
- Analyze production-like customer workflows and simulate real-world operational scenariosunder complex enterprise configurations.
- Execute regression, impact analysis, sanity, and cross-functional validation for releases, patches,and hotfixes.
- Collaborate closely with Product Management, Development, DevOps, and Architecture teams toclarify requirements and improve product quality.
- Create high-quality defect reports with strong root-cause analysis, reproducibility, businessimpact assessment, and troubleshooting details.
- Participate actively in Agile ceremonies, release readiness reviews, and quality risk discussions.
Key Technical Expectations
- Strong expertise in Functional Testing, System Testing, Integration Testing, and End-to-EndTesting methodologies.
- Strong understanding of Contact Center domain workflows and enterprise communicationplatforms.
- Hands-on experience validating distributed cloud-based applications and microservicesarchitectures.
- Excellent exploratory testing capability with investigative and analytical mindset.
- Experience designing complex test matrices, scenario permutations, and workflow combinations.
- Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills using logs, APIs, databases, and monitoring tools.
- Good understanding of REST APIs, backend validation, and integration points.
- Experience validating customer-facing workflows across UI, backend, and data layers.
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments with fast-paced release cycles.
- Ability to independently drive quality initiatives and identify product risks proactively.
Preferred Experience
- Prior experience in Contact Center, Unified Communications, CX, or SaaS platforms.
- Exposure to omnichannel communication systems and enterprise workflow validation.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.
- Understanding of enterprise-scale integrations and distributed systems behavior.
- Knowledge of monitoring, observability, and production diagnostics tools.
Behavioral Expectations
- Strong ownership mindset and accountability toward product quality.
- Exceptional analytical and critical-thinking skills.
- Ability to challenge assumptions and think beyond documented requirements.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills across cross-functional teams.
- Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple parallel testing activities.
Ideal Candidate Profile
The ideal candidate is a highly investigative QA professional who thrives on breaking complexsystems, uncovering hidden defects, and validating enterprise-grade customer workflows withprecision and depth. The candidate should demonstrate strong domain understanding, technicalcuriosity, exceptional exploratory testing capability, and a relentless focus on delivering high-quality,stable, and customer-centric releases.