Quality Specialist - Pune, India

Q4 Inc; Pune District; Hybrid; INR 1,800,000 - 2,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Q4 Inc in Pune is seeking a Quality Specialist to help ensure product quality through a shift-left QA approach, leveraging AI in daily workflows, and collaborating with Dev and Product across planning, test design, automation, and production monitoring.

You will build AI-enabled test harnesses, define AI-specific quality signals, and contribute to AI-driven test strategies within a hybrid workplace.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in quality assurance for software development.
• Good understanding of Agile development and CI/CD.
• Working knowledge of bug tracking and test case management tools (JIRA, TestRail).
• Solid QA & Quality Engineering practices.
• Experience implementing automated testing in an Agile environment.
• Familiarity with automation tools for testing (Java/Python/JS/Selenium WebDriver).
• Comfortable working in a SCRUM and Kanban approach.
• Committed to continuous growth through learning and self‑improvement.
• This is a hybrid position with a minimum of 2 days per week in office at our Pune location.

Responsibilities

• Quality Engineering Support: Apply and follow quality engineering practices throughout the development cycle.
• Support the maturation of the Product in alignment with other Product line developments in the R&D group.
• Design and execute effective and efficient test cases, ensuring strong coverage throughout product development.
• Collaborate with Product and Dev to support quality strategy and sprint‑level planning.
• Automation Contribution: Build and maintain test automation scripts across relevant layers of the development cycle.
• Contribute to the implementation and adoption of a BDD development model.
• Real‑world Usage Testing: Explore and test real‑world usage scenarios of the product to identify quality risks during POC and development.
• Support the maintenance and enhancement of the QA automation framework integrated into a CI/CD model.
• Quality Control Support: Support quality control activities for software deliverables, up to and including client handover.
• Promote quality assurance standards, culture, and best practices within the team.
• Documentation: Maintain accurate documentation of quality assurance artifacts.
• Serve as an active QA contributor at the squad level.
• Participate in regular sync‑ups with the team and share knowledge with peers.
• AI & Agentic System Testing: Build test harnesses for LLM-backed and agentic features — prompts, chains, tool‑use, multi‑agent flows.
• Define and implement AI‑specific quality signals: hallucination rate, instruction fidelity, context leakage, output consistency.
• Design exploratory AI agents and LLM‑as‑judge patterns to scale coverage beyond scripted suites.
• Agentic Test Orchestration: Build and operate AI‑powered test planning and orchestration workflows — use agents to explore product surfaces, generate test conditions, and prioritize risk dynamically.
• Design LLM‑as‑judge patterns and autonomous exploratory agents to scale coverage beyond scripted suites.
• Partner with Dev to define quality gates in CI/CD — you set the coverage contracts; Dev implements the automation.
• Drive test observability: coverage trends, flake rates, regression velocity, release readiness signals.
• Additional Tasks: Participate in all relevant sprint rituals; Maintain test suites and documentation; Provide regular metrics; Report defects/bugs and contribute to retro discussions.

Skills

QA/Quality Assurance

Agile development

CI/CD

JIRA

TestRail

Automation testing

Selenium WebDriver

Java

Python

JavaScript

SCRUM/Kanban

AI testing

Hybrid work

Tools

JIRA

TestRail

Job description

At Q4, we make an impact together, obsess over our customers, operate with integrity, and bring big ideas to life.

Q4 is charting a bold new path for investor relations as the first AI-driven IR Ops Platform, providing everything an IR team needs to succeed on a single, powerful platform. The Q4 Platform enables public companies to attract, manage, and understand investors - all in one place. Over 2,600 customers, including many of the most respected brands in the world, trust Q4 to help drive premium valuations for their companies. Only Q4 offers a tech stack holistically designed to equip IR teams with data, insights, and smart workflows that power remarkable outcomes. Learn more at q4inc.com .

We hire smart, curious, and talented people to push boundaries, reimagine what’s possible, and turn challenges into opportunities. All while keeping the needs of our clients at the heart of everything we do.

Come grow with us!

The Role: Quality Specialist

As a Quality Specialist, you will help ensure the quality of our products by supporting a shift-left approach to development, while actively leveraging AI to multiply your impact. You will work closely with Dev and Product to apply quality engineering practices across the full development cycle: planning, test design, automation, and production monitoring. You are expected to use AI tools as a core part of your daily workflow, for generating and evaluating test cases, accelerating automation development, exploring edge cases, and analyzing quality signals, not as an occasional convenience.

You bring both strong QA/QE fundamentals and agentic, AI-forward skills that make you significantly more effective than a traditional QA engineer.

Responsibilities

• Quality Engineering Support:
• Apply and follow quality engineering practices throughout the development cycle.
• Support the maturation of the Product in alignment with other Product line developments in the R&D group.
• Design and execute effective and efficient test cases, ensuring strong coverage throughout product development.
• Collaborate with Product and Dev to support quality strategy and sprint‑level planning.
• Automation Contribution:
• Build and maintain test automation scripts across relevant layers of the development cycle.
• Contribute to the implementation and adoption of a BDD development model.
• Real‑world Usage Testing:
• Explore and test real‑world usage scenarios of the product to identify quality risks during POC and development.
• Support the maintenance and enhancement of the QA automation framework integrated into a CI/CD model.
• Quality Control Support:
• Support quality control activities for software deliverables, up to and including client handover.
• Promote quality assurance standards, culture, and best practices within the team.
• Documentation:
• Maintain accurate documentation of quality assurance artifacts.
• Serve as an active QA contributor at the squad level.
• Participate in regular sync‑ups with the team and share knowledge with peers.

AI & Agentic System Testing

• Build test harnesses for LLM-backed and agentic features — prompts, chains, tool‑use, multi‑agent flows
• Define and implement AI‑specific quality signals: hallucination rate, instruction fidelity, context leakage, output consistency
• Design exploratory AI agents and LLM‑as‑judge patterns to scale coverage beyond what scripted suites can reach

Agentic Test Orchestration

• Build and operate AI‑powered test planning and orchestration workflows — use agents to explore product surfaces, generate test conditions, and prioritize risk dynamically
• Design LLM‑as‑judge patterns and autonomous exploratory agents to scale coverage beyond scripted suites
• Partner with Dev to define quality gates in CI/CD — you set the coverage contracts; Dev implements the automation
• Drive test observability: coverage trends, flake rates, regression velocity, release readiness signals

Additional Tasks

• Participate in all relevant sprint rituals.
• Maintain test suites and relevant documentation for the Product.
• Provide regular metrics on quality for sprints and overall Product.
• Report defects/bugs found during sprints and contribute to sprint retro discussions for analysis and improvement.

Required Skills

Please note: Q4 rigorously distinguishes between "Years of Experience" (time served) and "Level of Expertise" (actual mastery). We evaluate candidates based on their proven execution capability, not just their tenure.

• 5+ years in quality assurance for software development.
• Good understanding of Agile development and CI/CD.
• Working knowledge of bug tracking and test case management tools (JIRA, TestRail).
• Solid grounding in Quality Assurance & Quality Engineering practices.
• Experience implementing automated testing in an Agile environment.
• Familiarity with automation tools for testing (Java/Python/JS/Selenium WebDriver).
• Comfortable working in a SCRUM and Kanban approach.
• Committed to continuous growth through learning and self‑improvement.
• *Please note: This is a hybrid position. A minimum of 2 days per week in office is required at our Pune location.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please con tact us.