Principal Quality Engineer

Nomura; Mumbai; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,900,000; Full time

Job summary

Nomura Holdings, Inc. in Mumbai seeks a QA Engineer to support testing for internet banking platform modernization, covering backend migration to Jakarta EE/Spring Boot and a new React-based frontend.

You will design and execute test plans for functional, integration, and UAT testing, validate API integrations, test React UI components, and ensure security and data integrity across systems. Strong automation and test-management experience preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Technology or equivalent degree in Computer Science.
• Minimum of 6–9 years of QA experience in an enterprise environment.
• Strong understanding of QA methodologies (manual and automated testing).
• Experience testing Java/Spring-based backend applications and REST APIs.
• Experience testing React or other modern JS framework-based frontends.
• Familiarity with test management tools (e.g. JIRA, TestRail, Zephyr).
• Experience with API testing tools (e.g. Postman, SoapUI).
• Familiarity with automated testing frameworks (e.g. Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Jest).
• Understanding of banking/financial systems testing requirements (data integrity, security, compliance) is a plus.
• Experience testing legacy-to-modern system migrations is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute test plans/cases covering functional, regression, integration, and UAT testing.
• Validate backend API integrations, including CAPI, ensuring data accuracy and correct error handling.
• Test React-based UI components for functionality, responsiveness, and cross-browser compatibility.
• Perform regression testing to ensure legacy library migrations (Jackson, Log4j2, Hibernate Validator, etc.) do not break existing functionality.
• Validate security-related flows (authentication, session handling, XSS/CSRF protections) relevant to banking systems.
• Log, track, and retest defects; work closely with developers to ensure timely resolution.
• Support automated test script development and maintenance.

Skills

QA testing

Manual testing

Automated testing

REST APIs

Java/Spring

React testing

Education

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science

Tools

JIRA

Postman

Selenium

Cypress

Zephyr

TestRail

Job description

Job Description

Divisional Overview:

Information Technology division supports the dynamic financial business through the development of strategic initiatives. IT partners with business to develop, implement and support sophisticated trading systems as well as middle and back-office systems through the user of state of art technology.

Business Overview:

International Wealth Management (IWM) as an Asian private bank, we have more than 50 years of experience delivering value to high-net-worth clients in Asia.

Position Specifications

• Corporate Title - Associate
• Functional Title - QA tester
• Experience - Refer to table below
• Qualification - Refer to table below

Job Role & Responsibilities

We are seeking a QA Engineer to support testing and quality assurance for the internet banking platform modernization — covering backend migration to Jakarta EE/Spring Boot and the new React-based frontend.

• Design and execute test plans/cases covering functional, regression, integration, and UAT testing.
• Validate backend API integrations, including CAPI, ensuring data accuracy and correct error handling.
• Test React-based UI components for functionality, responsiveness, and cross-browser compatibility.
• Perform regression testing to ensure legacy library migrations (Jackson, Log4j2, Hibernate Validator, etc.) do not break existing functionality.
• Validate security-related flows (authentication, session handling, XSS/CSRF protections) relevant to banking systems.
• Log, track, and retest defects; work closely with developers to ensure timely resolution.
• Support automated test script development and maintenance.

Job Requirements/Experience

• Candidates must have a Bachelor of Technology or equivalent degree in Computer Science.
• Minimum of 6-9 years of QA experience in an enterprise environment.
• Strong understanding of QA methodologies (manual and automated testing).
• Experience testing Java/Spring-based backend applications and REST APIs.
• Experience testing React or other modern JS framework-based frontends.
• Familiarity with test management tools (e.g. JIRA, TestRail, Zephyr).
• Experience with API testing tools (e.g. Postman, SoapUI).
• Familiarity with automated testing frameworks (e.g. Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Jest).
• Understanding of banking/financial systems testing requirements (data integrity, security,

compliance) is a plus.

• Experience testing legacy-to-modern system migrations is a plus.
• Able to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Able to work and organize with sense of urgency under multiple deadlines,
• Self-motivated, responsible and reliable team player.
• Communicates well & across all levels.

Good to have

• Experience with CI/CD pipeline integration for automated testing.
• Familiarity with performance/load testing tools (e.g. JMeter).

Nomura Leadership Behaviours

Exploring Insights & Vision

Comprehensively analyse the nature
of the problems we face and set our
focus toward the future vision

• Gather Intelligence
• Create a vision
• Identify an issue

Making Strategic Decisions

Analyse options and feasibility to resolve issues, in making
judgments and recommendations

• Identify countermeasures
• Assess feasibility
• Make a judgment

Inspiring Entrepreneurship in People

Promotes the vision and goals to others in such a way that inspires commitment and independent contributions

• Influence
• Inspire
• Commit

Elevating Organizational Capacity

Maximize organizational productivity through leadership development and
engagement

• Have an ownership in own development
• Support other‘s growth
• Encourage organizational growth

Inclusion

Respect diverse perspectives and
promote psychological safety
and the creation of a risk culture

• Foster psychological
  safety
• Encourage the active
  participation of all talent
• Foster a risk culture

We are committed to providing equal opportunities throughout employment including in the recruitment, training and development of employees. We prohibit discrimination in the workplace whether on grounds of gender, marital or domestic partnership status, pregnancy, carer’s responsibilities, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, race, color, national or ethnic origins, religious belief, disability or age.

*Applying for this role does not amount to a job offer or create an obligation on Nomura to provide a job offer. The expression "Nomura" refers to Nomura Services India Private Limited together with its affiliates.