Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Ekkomd; Chennai, Tiruchirappalli, Coimbatore District, Bengaluru, Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Ekko Medical Solutions Private Limited is hiring for an inaugural Senior QA Engineer to shape our QA practice for a fast-moving AI healthcare product. You’ll be hands-on from week one, writing tests and automating across web app, browser extension, and backend services, reporting to the CTO.

You’ll lead QA processes, ship robust test pipelines, and mentor a junior QA engineer while embedding quality earlier in development cycles in a startup environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in QA, with at least 2 years in senior/lead role.
• Hands-on automation with Playwright (preferred) or Selenium in TS or Python.
• API and database testing: REST APIs, JSON schema validation, SQL checks.
• AI/LLM output validation experience and ground-truth comparisons.
• Experience defining QA processes from scratch.
• Mentoring junior QAs and owning quality across a small team.
• Comfort with startup pace, ownership, and shipping over perfection.

Responsibilities

• Define testing strategy across unit, integration, end-to-end, and AI output validation.
• Establish standards for test design, defect triage, release gates, and regression coverage.
• Set up CI/CD-integrated test pipelines.
• Write Playwright-based end-to-end tests for web app and browser extension.
• Develop API test coverage for backend services.
• Implement SQL-based data validation for clinical workflows.
• Design evaluation frameworks for LLM pipeline performance.
• Build automated comparisons between AI outputs and ground-truth references.
• Define and track clinically-relevant quality metrics.
• Pair with a junior QA engineer; review scripts and mentor.
• Embed quality earlier in development cycles and conduct defect triage.

Skills

Playwright automation

Selenium automation

TypeScript

Python

API testing

SQL checks

QA process design

Mentoring

Startup pace

Tools

GitHub Actions

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Ekko is an AI-powered healthcare product that turns clinical conversations into structured documentation. Our pipeline transcribes audio, generates clinical notes, and extracts structured data using LLMs. We ship across three surfaces — a web app, a backend service, and a browser extension — used by clinicians who depend on accuracy. We're a small, early-stage team.

This is Ekko's inaugural Senior QA Engineer position. You won't be walking into a mature QA process — you'll define it. From week one you'll be hands-on writing tests, not drawing up strategy decks. You'll report directly to the CTO and work alongside a junior QA engineer, setting the quality bar for a fast-moving clinical AI product.

Architect QA Processes

• Define testing strategy across unit, integration, end-to-end, and AI output validation
• Establish standards for test design, defect triage, release gates, and regression coverage
• Set up CI/CD-integrated test pipelines

Build Automation Suite

• Write Playwright-based end-to-end tests for web app and browser extension
• Develop API test coverage for backend services
• Implement SQL-based data validation for clinical workflows

Validate AI Output Quality

• Design evaluation frameworks for LLM pipeline performance
• Build automated comparisons between AI outputs and ground-truth references
• Define and track clinically-relevant quality metrics

Mentor & Partner

• Pair with a junior QA engineer on test design and automation
• Review test scripts and support team development
• Embed quality earlier in development cycles
• Conduct defect triage, root cause analysis, and advocate for quality in sprint planning

What You Bring

• **5+ years in QA,** with at least 2 years in a senior or lead role
• **Strong hands-on automation** with Playwright (preferred) or Selenium, in TypeScript or Python
• **API and database testing**: REST APIs, JSON schema validation, SQL backend checks
• **AI/LLM output validation experience** — you've tested generative AI outputs and know the difference between "passes the test" and "is actually correct." Familiarity with techniques like semantic similarity, structured output validation, RAGAS, or DeepDiff-style comparison
• **Experience defining QA processes from scratch**, not just executing within an existing one
• **Track record of mentoring junior QAs** or owning quality across a small team
• **Comfort with a startup pace** — ambiguity, ownership, and shipping over perfection

Nice to Have

• Healthcare or clinical software background
• Compliance knowledge (HIPAA, NABH, DPDP)
• Browser extension testing experience
• Collaboration with AI/ML engineers
• CI/CD experience (GitHub Actions)

Why join Ekko

• Real ownership. You're Ekko's inaugural QA leader — you define the quality bar, not inherit it.
• AI product depth. You'll tackle testing problems most QA roles never touch — LLM output validation in a live clinical setting.
• Direct impact. Small team, fast feedback, decisions made in days not quarters.
• Good people. We take the work seriously and ourselves a lot less so.