Our Story

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Our Benefits

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Great Place to Work

Thanks to the work of every colleague, Alight has received multiple awards of recognition including “Great Place to Work” for the past 7 years and Fortune’s “Best Companies to Work For.” To learn more about our company culture and awards Click Here.

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(THE ROLE)

The Senior Testing Specialist is accountable to test and sign off on the quality of CBA solutions, ensuring that delivery meets client requirements and acceptance criteria. The role leverages deep domain expertise, test design discipline, realistic test data setup, defect analysis, and stakeholder communication to identify quality risks and support production-ready releases. This updated role also requires responsible use of AI as a productivity accelerator for data quality analysis, test design, SQL validation, issue summarization, and documentation.

AI capability requirement

Candidates must demonstrate practical, responsible use of generative AI to accelerate data profiling, data quality rule design, test case creation, SQL analysis, and issue summarization. AI-generated checks, summaries, or SQL must be validated, corrected, and explained before use.

(RESPONSIBILITIES)

Primary Responsibilities

· Participate in requirements meetings to understand client impact, acceptance criteria, testing coverage, environment needs, non-functional requirements, and testing effort.

· Participate in sprint planning by reviewing user stories, identifying testing tasks, providing estimates, and confirming readiness of test data and environments.

· Create, document, execute, track, and report manual and automated test cases for assigned projects, enhancements, and defects.

· Create realistic participant, provision, configuration, and environment data needed for development, functional testing, regression testing, and UAT preparation.

· Capture, analyze, log, and retest defects; identify quality risks; and partner with developers, product owners, and solution leaders to resolve issues or prioritize backlog items.

· Execute functional and non-functional testing, including regression, data validation, configuration validation, and release-readiness testing.





· Support UAT by preparing environments and test participants, validating test scenarios, and documenting results, risks, and required follow-up.

· Use AI-assisted QA and data analysis tools to accelerate test design, data quality checks, SQL validation, issue summaries, and documentation while independently validating outputs.

Required Skills and Experience

· Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, MIS, Engineering, Math, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

· 4-6 years of software quality assurance, data testing, or related experience.

· Experience with SQL-based testing and data validation.

· Experience creating and executing manual tests, with exposure to test automation or automated data-validation approaches; familiarity with Agile testing methodologies, test planning, test case creation, defect management, and release validation.

· Experience with QA automation frameworks, test-management tools, or automated SQL/data-quality validation is a plus.

· Strong knowledge of CBA domain, product behavior, environment setup, test data preparation, client impact, and quality risk analysis.

· Ability to analyze requirements, identify edge cases, distinguish true defects from expected business variance, and communicate findings clearly.

· SQL and data quality fundamentals, including joins, aggregations, exception queries, duplicate detection, null analysis, referential integrity checks, record-count validation, and trend analysis.

· Strong secure data handling discipline, including preventing confidential, proprietary, client, colleague, production, PII, or PHI data from being entered into public AI tools.

AI Required and Preferred Skills.

(REQUIREMENTS)

Skill Area

Requirement / Posting Language

AI-assisted data analysis

Experience using generative AI tools to accelerate data profiling, SQL analysis, data quality rule design, query explanation, documentation, and issue summarization.

Prompt engineering

Ability to write clear prompts for data validation scenarios, anomaly detection logic, SQL troubleshooting, reconciliation checks, and data quality reporting.

AI output validation

Ability to critically review AI-generated SQL, data quality rules, test cases, and summaries for accuracy, completeness, privacy, and business relevance.

Data analysis and RCA

Ability to profile datasets, identify patterns, isolate root causes, document evidence, and recommend corrective actions.

Preferred AI usage

Experience with ETL validation, source-to-target reconciliation, data lineage, data observability, BI/report validation, data governance, and automated data quality checks.

Application and Interview

By applying for a position with Alight,



you understand that, should you be made an offer, it will be contingent on your undergoing and successfully completing a background check consistent with Alight’s employment policies.

Background checks may include some or all the following based on the nature of the position: Government ID validation, education verification, employment verification, and criminal check, search against global sanctions and government watch lists, credit check, and/or drug test. You will be notified during the hiring process which checks are required by the position.

Alight requires all virtual interviews to be conducted on video. Please be aware that Alight is a camera-on culture and may require occasional travel to one of our physical office locations.

Our commitment to Inclusion

We celebrate differences and believe in fostering an workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and supported. We know that diverse teams are stronger, more innovative, and more successful.

At Alight, we welcome and embrace all individuals, regardless of their background, and are dedicated to creating a culture that enables every employee to thrive. Join us in building a brighter, more inclusive future.

As part of this commitment, Alight will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodation for the hiring process. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact [email protected].

Equal Opportunity Policy Statement

Alight is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against anyone based on sex, race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital or domestic partner status, citizenship, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics or conduct covered by federal, state, or local law. In addition, we take affirmative action to employ disabled persons, disabled veterans, and other covered veterans.

Alight provides reasonable accommodation to the known limitations of otherwise qualified employees and applicants for employment with disabilities and sincerely held religious beliefs, practices and observances, unless doing so would result in undue hardship. Applicants for employment may request reasonable accommodations/modifications by contacting their recruiter.

Authorization to work in the Employing Country

Applicants for employment in the country in which they are applying (Employing Country) must have work authorization that does not, now or in the future, require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the Employing Country and with Alight.

Note, this does not restrict management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities of this job to other entities; including but not limited to subsidiaries, partners, or purchasers of Alight business units.

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📌 Senior Testing Specialist (Noida)
🏢 Alight Solutions
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