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This is a great opportunity to join a winning team. CGI offers a competitive compensation package with opportunities for growth and professional development. Benefits for full-time, permanent members start on the first day of employment and include a paid time-off program and profit participation and stock purchase plans. We wish to thank all applicants for their interest and effort in applying for this position, however, only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted. No unsolicited agency referrals please.
Your future duties and responsibilities
Job Title: QA
Position: SSE/LA
Experience: 5yrs to 8Yrs
Category: Software Development
Main location: Hyderabad
Employment Type: Full time
Required qualifications to be successful in this role
Experience: 5–8 years
Location: Hyderabad
Function: Quality Engineering
Primary stack: JavaScript + Cypress / API testing + Azure DevOps + CI/CD
Role overview:
The QA / Quality Engineer protects software quality across complex customer and enterprise platforms. The role combines hands on functional and automated testing with test strategy, API testing, non functional quality, CI/CD quality gates, defect management and production readiness collaboration. The profile is suited to Centrica style Agile and DevOps teams where QA partners closely with developers, product managers, architecture and operations.
Key responsibilities
. Develop and maintain test plans, test cases, test scripts and test data for software products, features and integrations.
. Design and execute functional, regression, integration, end to end and UAT oriented testing across complex platforms.
. Build and maintain automated tests using JavaScript and frameworks such as Cypress, integrating automation into CI/CD pipelines.
. Create and run API tests, validating service behaviour, data contracts, error handling and end to end data movement.
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Assess quality risk and define practical test coverage across functional and non functional requirements.
. Support performance, accessibility and visual testing where relevant to the product and customer journey.
. Integrate automated tests and quality gates with Continuous Integration tooling such as Azure DevOps.
. Identify, document, prioritise and track defects through closure, working closely with developers and product teams.
. Provide clear test results, quality status, risks and recommendations to stakeholders and delivery teams.
. Contribute to release readiness, production validation, root cause analysis and continuous improvement of quality practices.
. Support and mentor other quality engineers/testers where the role has lead responsibilities.
. Participate actively in Scrum, Kanban and other Agile ceremonies, bringing quality considerations into refinement and delivery planning.
Required technical skills
Automation Testing: Strong hands on automation using JavaScript; Cypress or comparable up-to-date framework.
Testing: Functional, regression, integration, end to end, API, performance, accessibility and visual testing.
CI/CD: Azure DevOps or equivalent CI tooling; automated quality gates and pipeline integration.
API Testing: Hands on REST/API testing, test data and validation of upstream/downstream integrations.
Quality Engineering: Test strategy, quality risk assessment, defect lifecycle, metrics and release readiness.
Experience
. Essential: 5+ years in software quality engineering, with strong automation, CI/CD and test strategy experience across complex platforms.
. Essential: 2+ years of experience leading or managing a team of software quality engineers/testers, for senior/lead variants of the role.
. Essential: Demonstrable experience writing tests in JavaScript and using modern automation frameworks such as Cypress.
. Essential: Practical experience of API testing and integration validation.
. Essential:
Experience operating in Agile and DevOps environments and working with CI tooling such as Azure DevOps.
. Good to have: Cloud platform exposure, particularly AWS, and experience testing cloud native services.
. Good to have: Experience testing Salesforce or other CRM platforms in integration heavy enterprise landscapes.
. Education: Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
Behavioural competencies
. Take ownership for quality outcomes from refinement through release and live support.
. Work as one team with Product, Engineering, Architecture, Security and Operations.
. Bring a growth mindset and continuously improve test automation, coverage and delivery feedback loops.
. Use evidence and risk based thinking to make pragmatic quality decisions.
. Maintain strong attention to detail while keeping focus on customer and business outcomes.
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Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you’ll reach your full potential because…
You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That’s why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company’s strategy and direction.
Your work creates value. You’ll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.
You’ll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.
That same commitment to fairness extends to how we use technology. To support our recruitment team, AI tools may be used to help assess applications though they never replace human judgement. All hiring decisions remain entirely in the hands of our recruitment professionals.
Come join our team—one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.
📌 QA / Quality Engineer (Hyderabad)
🏢 CGI
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