Senior QA Engineer / QA Lead (6–10 Years Experience)

Role Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior QA Engineer with 6–10 years of experience who can drive end-to-end quality assurance activities across Web, Mobile, and API-based SaaS products. The ideal candidate must possess strong business and functional understanding, exceptional analytical thinking, leadership capabilities, and the ability to proactively identify product risks before they impact customers.

Mandatory Skills & Experience

Functional Testing & Product Understanding

- Strong expertise in Manual Testing with the ability to understand complex business workflows and translate requirements into effective test scenarios.
- Ability to identify requirement gaps, ambiguities, edge cases, and business risks during requirement reviews.
- Strong impact analysis skills to assess downstream effects of changes across modules and integrations.
- Experience owning complete testing cycles from requirement analysis through production validation.
- Proven ability to challenge requirements and provide quality recommendations during design discussions.

Automation Testing

- Hands-on experience with Automation Testing frameworks and scripting.
- Ability to identify automation opportunities and contribute to regression automation strategy.
- Understanding of CI/CD-integrated testing practices is preferred.

SaaS Product Experience

- Minimum 3+ years of experience testing SaaS products.
- Experience validating multi-tenant applications, role-based access controls, configurations, workflows, and subscription-based platforms.
- Understanding of production environments, customer impact analysis, and release quality management.

Leadership & Ownership





- Experience leading or mentoring QA team members.
- Ability to independently drive test planning, estimation, execution, and reporting.
- Strong ownership mindset with proven experience coordinating with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Developers, and Stakeholders.
- Experience reviewing and improving QA processes, standards, and best practices.

Testing Expertise

Hands-on experience in:

- Functional Testing
- Regression Testing
- Integration Testing
- System Testing
- User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- Smoke & Sanity Testing
- Compatibility Testing
- Exploratory Testing
- End-to-End Testing
- Mobile Application Testing (Android & iOS)
- Web Application Testing
- API Testing

Technical Skills

- Strong API Testing experience using Postman, Swagger, or similar tools.
- Strong SQL and Database Testing skills with ability to write complex queries for data validation.
- Understanding of logs, debugging techniques, and root cause analysis.
- Experience validating third-party integrations and backend services.

Process & Methodology

- Strong understanding of SDLC, STLC, Defect Lifecycle, and Release Management.
- Hands-on experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
- Experience participating in Sprint Planning, Grooming, Estimation, Retrospectives, and Release activities.

Key Qualities We Are Looking For

- Robust critical thinking and analytical skills.
- Excellent problem identification and risk assessment capabilities.
- Ability to think from both customer and business perspectives.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Proactive ownership and leadership mindset.
- Ability to work with minimal supervision and drive quality initiatives independently.

📌 QA Engineer (India)
🏢 Deservely Technologies
📍 India