Lead Solution Testing And Automation

National Payments Corporation Of India (NPCI); Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

National Payments Corporation Of India (NPCI) is seeking a QA specialist to lead SDK testing, security validation, test automation, and API validation for mobile SDKs and related components. The role focuses on ensuring compatibility across devices, secure operations, and robust release quality.

The candidate will build automated test suites, validate backend interactions, and work closely with R&D, product, and security teams to strengthen QA processes and governance.

Qualifications

• Experience designing test strategies for Android/mobile SDKs.
• Experience validating security features in mobile apps and SDKs.
• Experience building automated test frameworks and suites.
• Strong understanding of APIs, integrations, and platform features.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and execute test strategies for Android/mobile SDKs and related components.
• Validate SDK functionality across Android versions, devices, and OEM environments.
• Create detailed test plans, test cases, and traceability matrices for SDK features.
• Perform integration testing for host applications embedding the SDK.
• Ensure backward compatibility and stability of SDK releases.

Skills

SDK testing

Security testing

Test automation

API validation

Performance testing

Defect management

Collaboration

Tools

CI/CD

Emulators

Device farms

Job description

Job Description:

Key Responsibilities

1. SDK Testing and Quality Assurance

• Design, develop, and execute test strategies for Android/mobile SDKs and related software components.
• Validate SDK functionality across multiple Android versions, device types, OEM environments, and integration scenarios.
• Create detailed test plans, test cases, test scenarios, and traceability matrices for SDK features and enhancements.
• Perform integration testing to verify SDK behavior when embedded into host applications.
• Ensure backward compatibility and stability of SDK releases across supported environments.
• Validate SDK installation, configuration, initialization, runtime behavior, error handling, and upgrade paths.

2. Security Validation and Secure QA Support

• Perform validation of security-sensitive features, including authentication flows, secure storage, device binding, cryptographic operations, token handling, and session management.
• Verify implementation of mobile security controls such as certificate pinning, root/jailbreak detection, tamper detection, obfuscation, and secure communication.
• Support review and validation of security requirements in SDK and mobile application workflows.
• Work closely with engineering and security teams to identify vulnerabilities, weak controls, insecure configurations, and risk areas early in the development lifecycle.
• Participate in security testing activities, including negative testing, abuse-case testing, and misconfiguration validation.
• Assist in validating compliance with secure coding and mobile security best practices.

3. Test Automation

• Build and maintain automated test frameworks for SDK and application validation.
• Develop automated functional, regression, integration, and API test suites.
• Automate repeatable test scenarios for SDK releases and continuous validation pipelines.
• Integrate automated test execution with CI/CD pipelines to improve release quality and reduce manual effort.
• Contribute to test infrastructure for emulator, real-device, and device farm-based testing.

4. API, Integration, and Platform Validation

• Validate SDK interaction with backend APIs, device services, and platform capabilities.
• Perform testing for network handling, retries, resilience, transaction integrity, and failure scenarios.
• Verify interoperability between SDK components and dependent systems.
• Support testing of mobile components involving NFC, device security modules, cryptographic interfaces, and secure communication layers where applicable.
• Ensure consistency of behavior across sandbox, UAT, and production-like test environments.

5. Performance, Reliability, and Resilience Testing

• Conduct performance, stress, load, and stability testing for SDKs and related mobile components.
• Validate app/SDK behavior under low memory, poor network, device interruptions, and edge-case conditions.
• Test for battery impact, startup latency, SDK footprint, crash resilience, and transaction reliability.
• Assess release readiness from a non-functional quality standpoint.

6. Defect Management and Quality Governance

• Identify, document, reproduce, prioritize, and track defects with clear technical detail.
• Work with developers to troubleshoot issues, validate fixes, and prevent regression.
• Maintain structured QA documentation including release reports, quality dashboards, and defect metrics.
• Support root cause analysis and continuous improvement initiatives for recurring quality issues.
• Contribute to definition and monitoring of QA gates and release acceptance criteria.

7. Collaboration and Process Improvement

• Work closely with R&D developers, product managers, architects, security teams, and external stakeholders.
• Participate in requirement reviews, design discussions, sprint planning, and release readiness reviews.
• Recommend improvements in QA processes, tooling, test coverage, and product quality standards.
• Contribute to a quality-first engineering culture within the R&D organization.