Lead Associate - Quality

Davies; Pune District; On-site; INR 700,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Davies Group in Pune is seeking a Lead Associate - Quality to join the IT department. The role focuses on ensuring high-quality software delivery through planning, testing, and automation.

You will design test strategies, automate regression and performance tests, collaborate with developers, document results, and help advance the QA framework with innovative approaches. Experience in data validation and system integration will be valued, with strong communication across stakeholders to deliver

Qualifications

• Experience as a Software QA Engineer with automation focus.
• Ability to plan, implement, and automate testing strategies.
• Knowledge of regression, functional, data validation, and integration tests.

Responsibilities

• Plan and implement testing for new and existing functionality.
• Automate test cases and create environments for repeated tests.
• Collaborate with developers to design testing strategies and integrate QA into development.
• Document results, reproduce defects, and verify fixes.
• Support user acceptance testing and perform exploratory testing.

Skills

QA Testing

Automation

Test Planning

Collaborative Work

Exploratory Testing

Tools

Selenium

JMeter

CI/CD

Job description

Lead Associate - Quality

Department: IT

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Pune

Description

Davies is looking for an experienced Software Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer (Testing). Reporting to the Senior manager of Development, you will be accountable ensuring high-quality software delivery by planning, implementing, and automating quality assurance testing.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan and implement testing (e.g., regression, functional, data validation, system integration, load, or performance tests) for new and existing functionality.
• Automate test cases for unit testing + future use by writing scripts and create automation environments for repeated tests.
• Work closely with development teams to design testing strategies and integrate testing into the development process.
• Plan, create, execute, and automate test cases, working with business partners, developers, and other stakeholders.
• Document and analyze test results and recommend corrective action.
• Isolate, reproduce, manage, and maintain defects and test case databases, and verify fixes.
• Support user acceptance testing conducted by business partners or end users.
• Conduct exploratory testing and risk analysis for complex features, e.g., those that span across platforms or teams.
• Identify opportunities to reduce testing time and effort by automating repeatable tests.
• Enhance and maintain the test automation framework.
• Understand and apply automated testing approaches such as model-based testing or record-and-replay.
• Research, recommend, and implement new testing technologies and practices, such as incorporating machine learning.
• Define and champion quality and test best practices among development teams.
• Collaborate and share information with other software QA engineers, e.g., by participating in a community of practice.