Roles & Responsibilities

What you'll do

Design, write, and maintain test plans, test cases, and test data for web, API, and AI-driven features

Perform functional, regression, integration, and exploratory testing across releases

Build and maintain automated test suites for UI and API layers

Validate AI/ML outputs — accuracy, consistency, edge cases, bias, and graceful failure handling

Test REST APIs and data pipelines, verifying data quality and integration correctness

Log, track, and triage defects clearly, and verify fixes through to closure

Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and report on quality metrics

Partner with product, data science, and engineering to embed quality throughout the sprint

Ideal Candidate

Strong QA Engineer Profile with manual + automation testing across web, API, and AI-driven features

Mandatory (Experience 1): Must have 2+ years in QA / software testing, covering both manual and automation testing

Mandatory (Experience 2): Must have experience designing, writing, and maintaining test plans, test cases, and test data for web, API, and AI-driven features

Mandatory (Experience 3): Must have experience performing functional, regression, integration, and exploratory testing across releases

Mandatory (Tech skill 1): Must have hands-on automation experience with a framework such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, or similar

Mandatory (Tech skill 2): Experience testing AI/ML or data products (validating accuracy, consistency, edge cases, bias, graceful failure handling)

Mandatory (Tech skill 3): Must have API testing experience with tools like Postman, REST Assured, or equivalent, and experience testing REST APIs and data pipelines





Mandatory (Tech skill 4): Must have working knowledge of Python, JavaScript, or Java for test automation

Mandatory (Tech skill 5): Must have SQL and data skills — able to write queries to validate data and back-end behaviour

Mandatory (Skill 1): Must have a strong grasp of QA methodologies, SDLC/STLC, and Agile/Scrum practices.

Mandatory (Skill 2): Must have an analytical mindset with sharp attention to detail and explicit defect communication

Mandatory (Skill 3): Must have strong communication skills

Mandatory (Company): B2B Tech consulting/B2B Tech services/AI Tech consulting companies

Mandatory (Note): Candidate should be willing to work during EST shift (9.30 PM-6.30 AM) if needed as the client is based in US and they have US clients

Preferred (CI/CD): Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions)

Preferred (Domain): Cloud/AWS and insurance domain exposure

Pay: ₹317,964.68 - ₹1,500,000.00 per year

Application Question(s)

- If not in Hyderabad, are you open to re-locate to Hyderabad for this role?
- It is a hybrid work set-up. Are you open to visiting office 3 days a week?
- What is your official Notice period? (30)
- If you are serving the NP, when is your last working day?
- What is the reason you want to switch from your current company?
- Do you have any offers in hand? If yes please provide the details. (Where is the offer based of, what is the offer CTC breakdown, is it an accepted offer, when is your tentative joining there)
- What is your current CTC in LPA?
- What is your expected CTC in LPA? (15)

Experience:
- overall: 2 years (Required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Hyderabad, Telangana

📌 QA Engineer (Manual+Automation, AI Exposure) (Hyderabad)
🏢 OptimHire
📍 Hyderabad