Company Description

VidyaMohan Software Solutions, based in Pune, India, builds outstanding software for its clients while developing the engineers who build it.

We run on four things: honesty, sincerity, hard work, and ownership. We keep teams small, senior, and empowered, and we care as much about how work gets done as about what gets shipped. Role Description

This is a contract role for a Senior Principal Quality Assurance Engineer / Quality Assurance Architect, working with a US-based product company operating in a regulated, data-sensitive domain. It is a hands-on architect role, not a management or manual-testing role. You will own the quality and automation strategy end to end, extend an existing automation foundation, and — most importantly — design and build automation for complex, event-driven scenarios that go well beyond typical request-response API testing.

This is a remote role with work-from-home flexibility, and requires a daily overlap with US Eastern working hours. What you'll own

Automation-first, always. We are not looking for a manual tester. You may manually test a new feature once to understand its behaviour, but in the same sprint you raise the backlog story to automate it. Automation is not a "later" activity here; it is how we work. If your instinct is to defer automation to a "hardening sprint," this role is not for you.

Design automation for event-driven systems. Our current framework handles typical API endpoints well (built on Playwright). The harder, unsolved work is automating asynchronous, event-driven flows — where a message is published to a queue or topic, one or more services consume it, and the correct outcome only appears after several steps and some delay.

You will design and build the framework for this: producing and consuming events, asserting on eventually-consistent state, correlating events across services, and managing test data cleanly.

Use data as a first-class testing tool. We have a large data estate. You must be genuinely strong at writing complex SQL — joins, aggregations,



window functions — so you can independently traverse that data to design test cases and verify outcomes. You will also handle test data responsibly, using de-identified or synthetic data rather than exposing sensitive records.

Build quality into the pipeline. Integrate automated checks into CI/CD so quality is continuous, not a gate at the end.

Make results visible. Build clear, consolidated test reporting into the end of each CI/CD pipeline run, and publish it where product and stakeholders can actually see it (for example, a report artifact or an S3-hosted results page) rather than leaving results buried in pipeline logs. Given how closely this role works with non-QA people, "what passed, what failed, and what the risk is" needs to be legible at a glance.

Communicate and influence. You will work directly and closely with product owners, stakeholders, and engineering. You must be able to translate requirements into a test strategy, articulate risk plainly to non-QA people, and hold your position with sound reasoning.

Raise the bar for the team. Set standards, introduce practices like contract/schema testing for services, and mentor engineers on writing testable, well-covered code. Must have

15+ years in QA/SDET/quality engineering, with a substantial and recent portion still deeply hands-on in automation — you are writing and designing framework code today, not only reviewing it.

Proven experience designing an automation framework from scratch, ideally for asynchronous, event-driven, or microservices-based systems (message queues, topics, pub/sub) — not only UI or simple REST.

Strong command of a up-to-date automation stack (Playwright, Selenium, Cypress,



REST Assured, or similar) and real fluency in at least one of TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, or Java.

Strong hands-on SQL — able to write and reason about complex queries against a large dataset without hand-holding.

Hands-on with the AWS surface of an event-driven system. You should be comfortable operating and observing the stack, not just reading about it: reading and tracing through CloudWatch logs; working with SNS and SQS to drive and verify message flows; reading from and writing to S3; invoking Lambda functions and interacting with build pipelines; SES for email flows; Valkey / Redis for caching and in-memory data; and containerised workloads (ECS / EKS / Docker). This isn't a "familiarity" ask — you'll use these directly to set up test conditions and confirm outcomes.

Solid working knowledge of compliance in a regulated domain — handling of sensitive/personal data, audit trails, access controls, and the discipline of not using raw production data in test.

Excellent written and spoken English, and genuine comfort working directly with product and US-based stakeholders.

Working fluency with Agile/Scrum, defect tracking, and CI/CD.

Available to start at short notice. Nice to have

Healthcare / health-tech domain experience, and familiarity with HIPAA / PHI handling — a strong plus.

Experience with Kafka or other streaming platforms (if your event backbone goes beyond SNS/SQS).

Contract testing (e.g., Pact), performance and scalability testing (e.g., k6, JMeter, Gatling), and test-container-based approaches.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. Engagement details

Contract engagement; you would be an individual contractor on VidyaMohan Software Solutions' payroll (not a B2B / vendor arrangement).

India-based; Pune strongly preferred for closer collaboration.

2–3 hours of daily overlap with US Eastern time required.

6-month contract, extendable based on fit and performance.

📌 Quality Assurance Architect (Pune)
🏢 VidyaMohan Software Solutions
📍 Pune