Sr QA Test Engineer

Huron Consulting Group Inc.; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

401(k) with employer match

Paid time off

Parental leave and adoption assistance

Wellness program

Job summary

Huron Consulting Group Inc. seeks a Senior QA Test Engineer in India to own manual and automated testing for enterprise applications. You will design API and performance tests with JMeter, build UI automation with Playwright and TypeScript, and collaborate with Product Management and Engineering in an Agile setup.

The role requires strong SQL data validation, troubleshooting, and QA leadership to ensure reliable, high-quality software across releases.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional QA/Test Engineering experience in manual and automation testing.
• Strong API testing and JMeter performance testing proficiency.
• Experience with Playwright automation using TypeScript.

Responsibilities

• Own and execute manual and automated testing across the SDLC to meet quality objectives.
• Design and maintain API and performance test scripts with JMeter and report results.
• Develop UI automation with Playwright/TypeScript and create reusable scripts.
• Analyze results, troubleshoot defects, and drive resolution with engineering teams.
• Contribute to test plans, data preparation, SQL validation, and data integrity checks.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and provide QA guidance throughout the product lifecycle.

Skills

5+ years QA/Test Engineering

API Testing

Performance Testing

Playwright Automation

TypeScript

Agile/Scrum

Test Planning & Debugging

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

JMeter

Playwright

SQL

Azure DevOps/JIRA

Job description

Huron helps its clients drive growth, enhance performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. We help healthcare organizations build innovation capabilities and accelerate key growth initiatives, enabling organizations to own the future, instead of being disrupted by it. Together, we empower clients to create sustainable growth, optimize internal processes and deliver better consumer outcomes. Health systems, hospitals and medical clinics are under immense pressure to improve clinical outcomes and reduce the cost of providing patient care. Investing in new partnerships, clinical services and technology is not enough to create meaningful and substantive change. To succeed long-term, healthcare organizations must empower leaders, clinicians, employees, affiliates and communities to build cultures that foster innovation to achieve the best outcomes for patients. Joining the Huron team means you’ll help our clients evolve and adapt to the rapidly changing healthcare environment and optimize existing business operations, improve clinical outcomes, create a more consumer‑centric healthcare experience, and drive physician, patient and employee engagement across the enterprise.

Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future.

As a Senior QA Test Engineer, you will be a key contributor in ensuring the quality of Huron’s enterprise applications. The successful candidate will help define and ensure that Huron’s applications meet high standards for reliability, usability, and performance. You will work closely with the Product Management and Engineering teams in the design, implementation, release, and maintenance of multi‑user, dynamic, web‑based, and analytics applications. This role requires a passion for delivering exceptional products, the curiosity and drive to understand client application usage patterns and behaviors, the technical skills to develop reusable and automated tests to ensure a high‑quality user experience, and the independence and persistence to own and drive quality throughout the product lifecycle. The role requires strong expertise in API and Performance Testing using JMeter, Playwright Automation Framework with JavaScript/TypeScript, basic database concepts including SQL queries and data validation, troubleshooting and debugging, and experience working in Agile development environments. The successful candidate must also possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

Position Responsibilities

• Own and execute manual and automated testing activities across the complete software development lifecycle, ensuring releases meet quality objectives and timelines.
• Design, develop, execute, and maintain API and performance test scripts using JMeter, including workload modeling, test execution, results analysis, and performance reporting.
• Analyze test and performance results, troubleshoot issues, perform root‑cause analysis, and work closely with development teams to drive defects through resolution.
• Develop and maintain UI automation using Playwright with TypeScript, creating reliable and reusable automation scripts for functional and regression testing.
• Review technical design documents and participate in design and architecture discussions, providing QA perspectives on testability, reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Estimate QA effort for user stories and defects and develop test plans, test scenarios, and test cases.
• Generate and maintain appropriate test data to address testing requirements and data gaps.
• Perform database validation using SQL queries and validate data integrity across application and backend systems.
• Conduct performance testing to identify performance bottlenecks, capacity limitations, scalability concerns, potential performance debt, communicate performance issues to engineering teams.
• Identify and communicate release risks, quality concerns, and potential production‑impacting issues to QA and project leadership.
• Participate in bug scrub meetings, release readiness discussion.
• Evaluate and recommend new tools, techniques, and automation approaches to improve testing efficiency and product quality.
• Review QA deliverables and provide technical guidance and feedback to other QA team members.
• Participate actively in Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily stand‑ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Work closely with Product Management, Engineering, and QA teams members to ensure requirements are testable and comprehensive test coverage is achieved.
• Support QA/UAT environments and understand the build and deployment process.
• Support test execution during release cycles and provide quality status, risks, and defect updates to stakeholders.
• Ensure testing activities align with Huron’s quality standards and contribute to delivering a reliable, usable, and high‑performing product.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of QA practices, automation frameworks, performance testing capabilities, and release processes.

Qualifications Required / Must Have

• 5+ years of professional QA/Test Engineering experience with strong experience in both manual and automation testing.
• Strong hands‑on experience with API Testing and Performance Testing using JMeter.
• Demonstrated ability to develop, execute, analyze, and troubleshoot JMeter performance tests, rather than only having exposure to the tool.
• Strong hands‑on experience developing Playwright automation using TypeScript.
• Experience designing and maintaining reusable automation frameworks and automated regression suites.
• Strong understanding of API testing, including REST APIs, HTTP methods, request/response validation, status codes, authentication, and JSON/XML payloads.
• Good understanding of SQL and database validation, including writing queries to validate application data and backend processing.
• Strong troubleshooting, debugging, analytical, and root‑cause analysis skills.
• Experience with functional, regression, integration, system, API, and end‑to‑end testing.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum software development environments.
• Experience with Azure DevOps, JIRA, or similar tools for test management, defect tracking, and work item management.
• Experience with CI/CD and DevOps practices, preferably using Azure DevOps or similar platforms.
• Strong written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently, take ownership of QA activities, identify risks proactively, and collaborate effectively with cross‑functional teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.

Preferred / Good to Have

• Experience with SoapUI or similar API testing tools.
• Experience with XML, Web Services, and REST APIs.
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline integration of automated and performance tests.
• Experience working with offshore/distributed teams.
• Experience in new product development environments.
• Experience in the Healthcare domain.

Position Level

Associate Country India

At Huron, we’re redefining what a consulting organization can be. We go beyond advice to deliver results that last. We inherit our client’s challenges as if they were our own. We help them transform for the future. We advocate. We make a difference. And we intelligently, passionately, relentlessly do great work together. Are you the kind of person who stands ready to jump in, roll up your sleeves and transform ideas into action? Then come discover Huron. Whether you have years of experience or come right out of college, we invite you to explore our many opportunities. Find out how you can use your talents and develop your skills to make an impact immediately. Learn about how our culture and values provide you with the kind of environment that invites new ideas and innovation. Come see how we collaborate with each other in a culture of learning, coaching, diversity and inclusion. And hear about our unwavering commitment to make a difference in partnership with our clients, shareholders, communities and colleagues.

Huron Consulting Group offers a competitive compensation and benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage to employees and dependents; a 401(k) plan with a generous employer match; an employee stock purchase plan; a generous Paid Time Off policy; and paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Our Wellness Program supports employee total well‑being by providing free annual health screenings and coaching, bank at work, and on‑site workshops, as well as ongoing programs recognizing major events in the lives of our employees throughout the year. All benefits and programs are subject to applicable eligibility requirements.

Huron is fully committed to providing equal employment opportunity to job applicants and employees in recruitment, hiring, employment, compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, training, and all other terms and conditions of employment. Huron will not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, religion, veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, creed, citizenship or any other status protected by laws or regulations in the locations where we do business. We endeavor to maintain a drug‑free workplace.