Senior QA Tester 7 Month Contract

Connor, Clark & Lunn Financial Group (CC&L); Gurugram District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Connor, Clark & Lunn Financial Group is seeking a proactive Senior QA Tester to lead testing strategy, planning, and execution across complex projects within agile teams. You will own quality outcomes, remove impediments, and drive reliability of systems.

You will collaborate with developers, product owners, and QA peers to design and maintain tests for APIs, web apps, and backend systems, including API testing, automation, UAT, and cloud-based environments.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

QA Strategy

Test Automation

API Testing

UAT Coordination

Azure Cloud

Jira / Azure DevOps

Tools

Selenium

Cypress

Playwright

SQL

Job description

Job Description:

We are seeking a proactive and technically skilledSenior QA Testerto 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

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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.

For a closer look at how you can build your career with us, we invite you to explore cclgroup.com.
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. Please contact [e-mail] if you require accommodation.
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.