– PMO + QA Analyst

Role: PMO + QA Analyst

Experience: 1–3 Years

Location: Bengaluru

Employment Type: Full-time

About the Role

We are looking for a PMO + QA Analyst who can work across Project Management and Quality Assurance functions. The role requires a combination of QA execution, project coordination, release management, stakeholder coordination, reporting, and quality governance .

The candidate will work closely with Product, Engineering, QA, and Business teams to ensure features and projects are delivered on time and with the expected quality .

The ideal candidate should be comfortable managing multiple workstreams, tracking project progress, identifying risks and dependencies, coordinating with stakeholders, and independently driving QA activities for assigned features/releases.

Key Responsibilities

PMO & Project Management

- Track project, sprint, feature, and release timelines.
- Maintain project trackers, sprint trackers, dashboards, and action-item trackers.
- Monitor progress against planned timelines and highlight deviations.
- Track risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies, and blockers (RAID) .
- Coordinate with Product, Engineering, QA, and other stakeholders to ensure timely completion of activities.
- Follow up on pending tasks and ensure closure of action items.
- Coordinate sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, release discussions, and project meetings.
- Track feature readiness across different stages of the SDLC.
- Monitor dependencies between Product, Development, QA, vendors, and other teams.
- Prepare and circulate regular project/sprint status reports.
- Escalate risks, blockers, and timeline concerns to relevant stakeholders.
- Support planning and tracking of multiple projects/releases simultaneously.

QA & Quality Assurance
- Review PRDs, user stories, functional requirements, and acceptance criteria .
- Identify requirement gaps, ambiguities, edge cases, and dependencies before development/testing.
- Prepare and review test scenarios and detailed test cases.
- Execute and coordinate functional, regression, smoke, sanity, integration, and end-to-end testing .
- Perform API testing using tools such as Postman .
- Validate UI, API responses, business rules, validations, and end-to-end workflows.




- Log detailed defects in JIRA with clear steps to reproduce, expected vs actual results, severity, and supporting evidence.
- Track defects through the complete lifecycle and coordinate with Development/Product teams for resolution.
- Perform defect retesting and regression after fixes.
- Validate fixes across relevant environments.
- Monitor QA progress and identify testing risks or gaps.
- Maintain QA metrics such as test execution status, defect status, open blockers, and release readiness.
- Support production issue investigation and RCA activities.
- Ensure adequate regression coverage before releases.

Release & Production Readiness
- Coordinate QA activities for planned releases.
- Track feature readiness across Development, UAT, Pre-Production, and Production environments.
- Ensure required QA activities and documentation are completed before release.
- Track test execution, open defects, blockers, and pending dependencies before release.
- Coordinate QA sign-off/release readiness with relevant stakeholders.
- Support production deployment validation and post-release verification.
- Track production issues and ensure appropriate RCA and closure.
- Maintain release documentation, test reports, and sign-off records.

Quality & Process Improvement
- Identify gaps in existing QA and project execution processes.
- Recommend improvements to testing, tracking, documentation, and release processes.
- Ensure standard QA and PMO processes are followed across projects.
- Identify recurring defects, process gaps, and quality risks.
- Contribute to improving test coverage and release quality.
- Help establish and maintain project and QA metrics.
- Support implementation of quality gates and production-readiness checks.

Required Skills
- 1–3 years of experience in QA, PMO, Project Coordination, or a combination of these.
- Strong understanding of SDLC, STLC, Agile/Scrum, and software delivery lifecycle .




- Hands-on experience with functional and regression testing.
- Experience in API testing using Postman or similar tools.
- Valuable knowledge of JIRA and project/task tracking.
- Strong knowledge of Excel / Google Sheets and reporting.
- Good understanding of defect lifecycle and release management.
- Ability to review requirements and identify gaps.
- Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.
- Ability to manage multiple projects, features, and priorities simultaneously.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent documentation and follow-up skills.

Good to Have
- Knowledge of SQL/MongoDB .
- Experience with automation tools such as Selenium, TestNG, Karate, or REST Assured .
- Basic understanding of performance/load testing.
- Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins.
- Experience with monitoring/logging tools such as Kibana.
- Experience working with API-driven products.
- Experience in FinTech, Banking, SaaS, or enterprise technology products .
- Understanding of production-readiness and release-governance processes.

Key Competencies
- Ownership: Takes responsibility for assigned features, releases, and deliverables.
- Coordination: Effectively works with Product, Development, QA, and Business teams.
- Attention to Detail: Identifies requirement, testing, and process gaps.
- Communication: Clearly communicates progress, risks, blockers, and dependencies.
- Problem Solving: Investigates issues and drives them toward resolution.
- Planning: Can prioritize and manage multiple activities simultaneously.
- Quality Mindset: Focuses on preventing issues rather than only identifying defects.
- Execution: Ensures planned activities are tracked through completion.

Success in This Role The person should be able to independently:
- Drive QA activities for assigned features/releases.
- Maintain accurate project and QA trackers.
- Identify and escalate risks, blockers, and dependencies.
- Coordinate effectively with Product, Engineering, QA, and other stakeholders.
- Ensure testing and release activities are completed on schedule.
- Provide clear visibility into project status, quality status, and release readiness .
- Contribute to improving the overall QA and project execution process

📌 Quality Assurance Specialist (Bengaluru)
🏢 Signzy
📍 Bengaluru