Sr Engineer Quality

Empower Retirement; Bengaluru; Sur place; INR 1 400 000 - 2 400 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Empower Retirement in Bengaluru seeks an experienced QA/Testing lead to shape and execute a robust test strategy. You will design automated data testing, drive unit and integration tests, and guide testers across features. Strong coding familiarity, API and microservices testing, and AWS exposure are preferred.

You will collaborate with product and development teams to ensure high quality releases, define acceptance criteria, and continuously improve testing practices in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent related experience.
• Five plus years' experience in a QA/Testing technical role.
• Proven track record of testing software developments in a structured environment.
• Experience with defect lifecycle and advising on tests after fixes.
• Ability to adapt to changing requirements and priorities.
• Strong understanding of test levels (unit to UAT) and cohesive testing strategy.
• Ability to improve project practices and delivery through testing.
• Sound technical skills in system architecture, databases and web services.
• Experience with test frameworks and scripting automated tests.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; collaborative.
• Experience with API and Microservices testing; AWS experience is a plus.
• Familiarity with accessibility and security testing is valued.
• Experience in Functional, End-to-End, Regression and Smoke Testing.
• Strong self-motivation, organization and attention to detail.

Responsabilités

• Define system requirements/acceptance criteria with BSAs and developers.
• Identify gaps in requirements and plan testing scope including integration and regression.
• Apply test techniques for broad coverage and robust automation.
• Collaborate with development to build a comprehensive test suite.
• Determine data needs and manage test data for scenarios.
• Perform exploratory/manual testing across web service, UI, and data layers.
• Validate outputs across screens, files and databases for accuracy.
• Ensure non-functional test strategies for performance and load.

Connaissances

QA Testing

Test Strategy

Automation Testing

UAT

API Testing

Microservices Testing

AWS Experience

GitHub Copilot

Accessibility Testing

Security Testing

Functional Testing

End-to-End Testing

Regression Testing

Smoke Testing

Communication Skills

Problem Solving

Team Collaboration

Test Frameworks

Formation

Bachelor's degree

Outils

GitHub Copilot

AWS tooling

Description du poste

Our vision for the future is based on the idea that transforming financial lives starts by giving our people the freedom to transform their own. We have a flexible work environment, and fluid career paths. We not only encourage but celebrate internal mobility. We also recognize the importance of purpose, well-being, and work-life balance. Within Empower and our communities, we work hard to create a welcoming and inclusive environment, and our associates dedicate thousands of hours to volunteering for causes that matter most to them.

Chart your own path and grow your career while helping more customers achieve financial freedom. Empower Yourself.

This role is to drive and implement a comprehensive test strategy using appropriate testing tools and techniques. This role designs and delivers quality tests, automated data testing scenarios, may require development experience in python, ETL, SQL and others. This role also facilitates knowledge transfers to other testers within the department.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• To work closely with BSAs and developers to understand and define the system requirements/acceptance criteria of user stories and upcoming features.
• To understand the impact of said software on other areas of the system.
• To identify gaps in the requirements.
• To identify the scope of testing including systems integration and regression testing.
• To apply test techniques to ensure coverage.
• To work with development to ensure a comprehensive and robust suite of automated tests from unit and integration tests to user journey tests.
• To identify data requirements to satisfy test cases and create and maintain test data.
• To ensure continuous exploratory/manual testing of each functional area/user story against different layers of the system such as the web service layer, user interface layer.
• to check outputs including screen, file, and database updates to ensure system effectiveness.
• To ensure comprehensive test strategies are in place for non-functional areas such as performance and load.
• To ensure processes used within the team meet quality standards and champion the use of new practices where appropriate.
• To discuss and review outputs produced by team members and ensure standards across the team are maintained.
• To demonstrate working functionality/user stories to the product owner and/or during team showcases.
• To provide input into user story points/estimates.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent related experience
• Five plus years' experience in a QA/Testing technical role.
• Proven track record of testing software developments in a structured environment.
• Experience of defect lifecycle and ability to advise on tests to put in place after fixes are made.
• Ability to work in a continually changing environment, adapting to changing requirements and priorities at short notice.
• Excellent understanding of test levels (from unit tests to UAT) and ability to advise the team on what to test (and what not to test) as part of a cohesive testing strategy.
• Ability to propose improvements on project practices and processes to improve effectiveness of the team and delivery of the software.
• Sound technical skills; understanding of high-level system architecture components such as application servers, databases, and web services.
• Understanding of basic programming constructs.
• Experience in one or more test frameworks and scripting automated functional tests.
• Good team player with excellent written and verbal communication skills. Ability to interact and collaborate with people from development, business analysis, project management and SME disciplines.
• Experience working on user stories and defining clear acceptance criteria.
• Good experience in API and Microservices testing.
• Good experience in test frameworks and scripting automated functional tests.
• Experience with working in an AWS environment preferred
• Experience with creating test cases using GitHub copilot preferred
• Good experience in Accessibility and security testing will be a value add.
• Good experience in Functional Testing, End-to-End, Regression, and Smoke Testing tasks.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong sense of self-motivation, organization and attention to detail; strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to quickly comprehend project goals/requirements, identify gap/omissions and testing challenges/impediments
• Establish collaborative relationships with other teams to ensure success of project test phases
• Anticipate problems or issues that may arise, forecast high risk areas in software and drive resolution
• Provide timely and meaningful test result updates to management

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications of the job. The employer has the right to revise this job description at any time. You will be evaluated in part based on your performance of the responsibilities and/or tasks listed in this job description. You may be required perform other