Job highlights

- We are seeking a highly driven QA & Product Specialist who can work crossfunctionally across testing,product analysis,requirement clarification,and functional validation
- Participate in requirement discussions and backlog grooming
- Required Skills & Experience
- Bonus / Preferred Skills
- Someone who ensures the product not only works u2014 but works right

We are seeking a highly driven QA & Product Specialist who can work crossfunctionally across testing, product analysis, requirement clarification, and functional validation. This hybrid role is ideal for someone who understands both user requirements and technical execution and can ensure that features deliver the right business value with uncompromised quality.

Key Responsibilities

QA / Testing Responsibilities

Create, maintain, and execute endtoend test plans and test cases

Perform manual functional testing, UAT, regression, smoke and sanity testing

Work directly with developers to reproduce and resolve issues

Validate data workflows, UI/UX flows, and backend integrations

Document critical bugs with detailed reproduction steps and severity ranking

Product Responsibilities

Understand business requirements and translate them into functional test cases

Perform gap analysis between expected functionality and delivered functionality

Participate in requirement discussions and backlog grooming

Interact with stakeholders, endusers, internal teams to refine product needs

Provide insights for product improvements, feature enhancements,



and UX suggestions

Assist in writing product specifications & acceptance criteria

Validate user journeys and edgecase scenarios

Required Skills & Experience

27 years of professional experience in QA and/or Product roles

Strong analytical ability to understand endtoend business processes

Good understanding of Agile, Scrum, and product lifecycle

Experience with bug tracking tools: JIRA, Azure DevOps, Bugzilla, etc.

Understanding of APIs, JSON, Postman, and basic data debugging

Solid documentation and communication skills

Ability to collaborate with business and engineering teams

Experience validating UX flows and usability metrics

Bonus / Preferred Skills

(Not mandatory but adds value)

Experience in writing acceptance criteria (Gherkin / User Story format)

Exposure to automation frameworks (Selenium/Cypress etc.)

Basic SQL for database validation

Experience with userfacing interviews or UAT coordination

Knowledge of wireframing tools (Figma, Balsamiq etc.)

Understanding of product metrics & usage analytics

Soft Skills

Ownership mentality

Customerfirst mindset

Processoriented and detailfocused

Ability to challenge requirements when needed

Strong critical thinking and presentation ability

Ideal Candidate Persona

Someone who can think like a user and test like a QA

Someone who acts as a bridge between business & engineering

Someone who ensures the product not only works u2014 but works right

📌 Senior QA & Product Analyst (Bengaluru)
🏢 Kots
📍 Bengaluru