Key Responsibilities

Requirement Analysis & Risk Identification: Deeply read and interpret requirements, perform gap analysis, ask clarifying questions, assess complexity, and track dependencies. Proactively identify project risks and define positive, negative, and edge-case scenarios.

Hands-On Functional & Integration Testing: Actively perform exploratory, functional, and regression testing. Specialize in end-to-end UI, API, and DB integration testing to identify defects before they reach production.

API & Database Validation: Validate RESTful APIs (including strict checks on authorization and authentication, payloads, and status codes) and leverage your solid understanding of SQL Databases to ensure data integrity across the platform.

Web Automation: Design, build, and maintain scalable end-to-end UI automation frameworks from scratch using Cypress.

Agile & JIRA Workflow Management: Embed deeply into Agile processes. Manage QA workflows in JIRA by reading story details, utilizing comments/attachments, linking stories/bugs/tasks, and managing sprint boards.

Release Readiness:



Lead and participate in crucial Pre-Release and Release Readiness activities to ensure high-quality deployments.

Digital Assurance & CI/CD: Own the end-to-end digital quality of the product. Embed automated test suites into DevOps pipelines to enable continuous testing, while exploring AI/LLM tools to accelerate testing cycles.

Required Qualifications

Experience & Testing Acumen: 7+ years in Quality Engineering/SDET roles. Well-versed in all fundamental testing concepts with a proven track record of applying them effectively in daily tasks.

Domain Expertise: Good knowledge of the Healthcare domain, enabling a deep understanding of customer needs and pain points.

Core Automation: Deep, hands-on experience with the Cypress tool for UI automation (JavaScript/TypeScript).

Technical Stack: Strong experience with REST APIs, SQL Databases, and basic knowledge of Cloud concepts.

Communication: Strong communication and clarification skills to bridge the gap between technical and business requirements.

📌 Lead Software Engineer (Hyderabad)
🏢 Virtusa
📍 Hyderabad