Senior QA Tester (7 Month Contract)

Connor, Clark & Lunn Financial Group (CC&L); Gurugram District; On-site; INR 2,009,000 - 2,678,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work practices

Learning budget

Paid study days

Wellness credits

Job summary

Connor, Clark & Lunn Financial Group (CC&L) in Gurugram seeks a Senior QA Tester to lead testing strategy across agile teams, ensuring quality outcomes and timely deliveries.

You will design and execute tests for APIs, web applications, and backend systems, coordinating test data and environments, while driving continuous QA improvements. A 7-month fixed-term contract with autonomous collaboration and strong communication is offered.

Qualifications

• Must have extensive QA testing experience in agile environments.
• Ability to design, document, and execute comprehensive test plans.
• Experience leading risk-based testing across APIs, web apps, and backend systems.
• Proven track record in test automation and data validation.

Responsibilities

• Lead risk-based test strategy, planning, and execution for new and existing systems.
• Collaborate with developers, product owners, and BA to clarify requirements and maintain traceability.
• Design, implement, maintain, and execute manual and automated tests for APIs, web apps, and backend systems.
• Coordinate UAT planning, readiness assessments, and sign-off documentation.
• Own defect management from triage to closure and verify fixes.
• Provide release-readiness assessments and communicate test progress and risks.

Skills

QA testing

Test planning

Test automation

API testing

SQL data validation

UAT coordination

Azure DevOps/Jira

Tools

Selenium

Cypress

Playwright

REST API testing

SQL

Azure DevOps

Jira

Job description

We are seeking a proactive and technically skilled Senior QA Tester to lead testing strategy, planning, and execution across complex projects within our agile delivery teams. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, takes ownership of quality outcomes, and actively removes roadblocks through collaboration and initiative.

You will operate with a high degree of autonomy, lead by example, identify quality risks early, ask effective questions, and work across teams to keep testing and delivery moving forward. Your strong communication skills, attention to detail, and technical expertise will be essential in ensuring the reliability and performance of our systems.

Individuals applying for this position must be able to multi-task, have a strong attention to detail, professional demeanor, and be able to adapt into a growing and changing environment.

Position: Senior QA Tester

Duration: 7 Month Contract

Location: Gurugram

What You Will Do

• Lead risk-based test strategy, planning, and execution for new and existing systems, prioritizing coverage based on business impact, complexity, and delivery risk.
• Collaborate with developers, product owners, and business analysts to clarify requirements, remove impediments, and maintain traceability across requirements, test cases, defects, and test evidence.
• Design, implement, maintain, and execute manual and automated tests for APIs, web applications, and backend systems, coordinating the test data, environments, and dependencies required for effective execution.
• Coordinate UAT planning, including readiness assessments, test-scenario preparation, business-tester support, issue triage, progress reporting, and sign-off documentation.
• Own defect management, including clear documentation, triage, root-cause analysis, fix verification, retesting, and closure.
• Assess and communicate test progress, coverage, defect trends, unresolved issues, and risk. Provide release-readiness recommendations.
• Embed quality throughout the agile delivery lifecycle by contributing to planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives, while strengthening QA practices and driving continuous improvement across the team.

What You Bring

• 5+ years of software quality assurance experience, including at least 2 years in a senior or lead role within a fast-paced agile environment.
• Strong experience designing and documenting functional, integration, regression, end-to-end, and non-functional test cases, with practical experience planning and executing performance and load tests.
• Strong test automation experience using frameworks and tools such as Selenium, Cypress, or Playwright, combined with proficiency in RESTful API testing and SQL for data validation, test data management, and backend testing.
• Experience leading UAT and coordinating testing activities, risks, and outcomes with business and technical stakeholders.
• Solid understanding of cloud-based systems, preferably Microsoft Azure, and experience with delivery and test management platforms such as Jira or Azure DevOps.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to ask effective questions, communicate quality risks, work independently, and manage competing priorities with strong attention to detail.

This is a 7 month- fixed term contract

What We Offer

At Connor, Clark & Lunn Financial Group, we’re "invested in our greatest asset, you". Our shared goals reflect what matters most to our people:

• Your community: we foster belonging through collaboration, inclusion and flexibility. Enjoy social events, volunteering and a strong commitment to corporate social responsibility. Our flexible work practices are designed to support work-life balance and provide employees with flexibility in where and how they work
• Your growth: we prioritize your development with meaningful work, continuous learning budgets, paid study days and support for professional designations.
• Recognizing you: your contributions are rewarded with competitive total compensation, retirement savings support, wellness credits, enhanced parental leave, and comprehensive health benefits.

We are committed to providing an inclusive, accessible recruitment and selection process. We welcome and encourage applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the recruitment and selection process.

AI may be used to support certain stages of our screening & recruitment process. These tools support, but do not replace, human judgment and decision-making.