We are looking for a technically strong and detail-oriented QA Engineer to take ownership of product quality for Bondsmart, our digital debt investment platform.

The candidate will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, accuracy, security, and performance of our web applications, backend APIs, database operations, and third-party integrations.

The ideal candidate should have strong manual testing fundamentals, hands-on API testing and SQL skills, and practical exposure to test automation. They should be capable of independently identifying defects, analysing complex business workflows, and working closely with developers and product stakeholders to prevent issues from reaching production.

As a startup operating in the debt investment segment, we are looking for someone who takes ownership, thinks beyond predefined test cases, adapts quickly to changing requirements, and helps establish scalable QA processes as the platform grows.

Skills And Knowledge

Functional &

- End-to-End Testing

- Test end-to-end investor journeys, including registration, login, OTP verification, KYC, bank verification, and profile management.
- Test investment workflows, including bond discovery, investment calculations, order placement, payment processing, order status updates, and transaction history.
- Prepare and execute test plans, test scenarios, test cases, and regression suites based on business requirements.
- Perform functional, integration, regression, smoke, exploratory, and user acceptance testing.
- Identify edge cases, missing validations, inconsistent behaviour, and potential production risks.
- Verify business rules, field validations, error messages, boundary conditions, and application behaviour across different scenarios.
- Ensure that new features and bug fixes do not negatively impact existing functionality.

API &

- Backend Testing

- Independently test RESTful APIs using Postman or equivalent tools.
- Validate API request and response payloads, HTTP status codes, authentication, authorization, and error handling.
- Perform positive, negative, boundary, and invalid-input testing.
- Validate integration behaviour across backend services and third-party providers.
- Test webhook processing, API timeouts, retries, duplicate requests, delayed responses, and failure scenarios.
- Analyse API responses and application logs to identify the root cause of defects.
- Collaborate with developers to reproduce issues, validate fixes, and improve backend reliability.

Database Testing &

- Data Integrity

- Write SQL queries to validate application data and business transactions.
- Verify data consistency across users, KYC records, investment orders, payments, holdings, and related database entities.
- Identify duplicate records, missing data, incorrect status updates, and inconsistent relationships.
- Validate database constraints, transaction records, and data integrity across interconnected workflows.
- Independently verify backend behaviour using database queries rather than relying solely on the user interface.
- Support investigation of production issues by analysing relevant records and identifying data discrepancies.

Fintech &

- Financial Workflow Testing

- Test payment gateway integrations, payment success and failure scenarios, cancellations, delayed payments, and reconciliation workflows.
- Validate investment amounts, bond units, price calculations, applicable charges, rounding, and accrued interest wherever applicable.
- Verify order lifecycle transitions and ensure that invalid or duplicate status changes do not occur.
- Test scenarios involving payment expiry, delayed webhooks, repeated callbacks, concurrent requests, and duplicate order submissions.
- Ensure transaction records remain consistent across application services and payment providers.
- Test integrations with KYC providers, banking services, exchanges, and other external financial service providers.
- Develop an understanding of fixed-income products, including corporate bonds, NCDs,



government securities, and secondary-market transactions.

Test Automation &

- Quality Engineering

- Develop and maintain automated test cases for critical application workflows.
- Build automated API test suites and UI regression tests using suitable frameworks.
- Use Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Postman/Newman, or equivalent tools to reduce repetitive manual testing.
- Identify suitable candidates for automation based on business criticality, frequency, and regression risk.
- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines in collaboration with the engineering team.
- Maintain reusable test scripts, test data, and automation documentation.
- Continuously improve test coverage, execution efficiency, and defect detection.

Security, Performance &

- Production Testing

- Perform basic security testing covering authentication, authorization, session management, input validation, and access-control vulnerabilities.
- Understand common web application security risks, including OWASP Top 10.
- Perform basic performance and load testing using tools such as JMeter or k6, where required.
- Test application behaviour under high traffic, concurrent requests, timeouts, and service failures.
- Assist in investigating production issues using logs, monitoring tools, and browser developer tools.
- Work with developers to improve application reliability, data protection, and overall user experience.

Defect Management &

- Release Quality

- Identify, document, prioritise, and track defects using Jira or equivalent tools.
- Provide clear reproduction steps, expected and actual results, severity, business impact, screenshots, and supporting API or database evidence.
- Perform retesting and regression testing after defect resolution.
- Participate in release planning, pre-release validation, smoke testing, and production verification.
- Define release acceptance criteria and communicate quality risks to relevant stakeholders.
- Investigate recurring defects and recommend preventive measures.
- Maintain QA documentation, test reports, and release sign-off records.

Product &

- Business Collaboration

- Work closely with developers, product managers, business teams, and operations to understand requirements and acceptance criteria.
- Identify ambiguities, missing business rules, and potential edge cases before development is completed.
- Provide early feedback on requirements and proposed solutions from a quality and risk perspective.
- Participate in sprint planning, requirement discussions, and release retrospectives.
- Take ownership of QA activities from requirement analysis through final release verification.
- Help establish practical testing standards and processes suitable for a growing startup.

Skills &
- Competencies

Technical Skills

- Strong understanding of software testing methodologies, SDLC, and STLC.
- Hands-on experience in manual testing, functional testing, regression testing, integration testing, and exploratory testing.
- Strong experience in API testing using Postman or equivalent tools.
- Good understanding of REST APIs, JSON, HTTP methods, status codes, headers, authentication, and authorization.
- Ability to write SQL queries involving SELECT, JOIN, WHERE, GROUP BY, subqueries, and data validation.
- Working knowledge of relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL.
- Practical experience with at least one UI automation framework, preferably Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium.
- Familiarity with API automation and test framework development.
- Understanding of web application architecture, client-server communication,



and browser developer tools.
- Familiarity with Git, Jira, bug tracking, and test management practices.
- Basic understanding of CI/CD pipelines and automated regression testing.
- Good debugging, analytical, and root-cause investigation skills.
- Knowledge of performance testing tools such as JMeter or k6 is an advantage.
- Understanding of application security and OWASP Top 10 is an advantage.
- Familiarity with AWS-hosted applications, logs, and monitoring tools is an advantage.

Fintech &

- Domain Skills

- Understanding of payment gateway integrations, transaction processing, and webhook-based systems.
- Ability to test financial calculations, order processing, payment statuses, and transaction consistency.
- Understanding of idempotency, duplicate requests, concurrency issues, retries, and asynchronous processing.
- Familiarity with banking, stockbroking, investment platforms, payment systems, or financial services is preferred.
- Knowledge of debt instruments, bonds, NCDs, fixed-income products, or capital markets is an advantage.
- Ability to understand complex business workflows and translate them into comprehensive test scenarios.

Behavioural &

- Professional Competencies

- Solid ownership and accountability for product quality.
- Excellent analytical thinking and attention to detail.
- Ability to identify edge cases and anticipate failures beyond predefined test scenarios.
- Proactive approach to defect identification and risk prevention.
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced startup environment.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to prioritise testing based on business impact and risk.
- Willingness to learn financial products, new technologies, and evolving business requirements.
- Focus on continuous improvement, process efficiency, and test automation.
- Key Expectations from the Role
- Own Product Quality –
- Take responsibility for the quality of Bondsmart’s applications, APIs, integrations, and critical business workflows.
- Ensure Financial Accuracy –
- Help prevent incorrect investment calculations, duplicate orders, inconsistent payment statuses, and transaction data discrepancies.
- Build Reliable QA Processes –
- Establish structured test cases, regression suites, release checklists, and practical quality standards.
- Strengthen API &
- Database Testing –
- Independently validate backend behaviour and database records to identify issues beyond the user interface.
- Drive Test Automation –
- Automate repetitive and business-critical test scenarios to improve regression coverage and release confidence.
- Identify Risks Early –
- Proactively identify missing requirements, edge cases, integration failures, and potential production issues.
- Support Safe Releases –
- Ensure critical workflows are adequately tested before deployment and communicate unresolved risks clearly.
- Collaborate with Engineering –
- Work closely with developers and product stakeholders to investigate root causes and prevent recurring defects.
- Adapt to a Startup Environment –
- Take initiative, work with evolving requirements, and help build QA practices that can scale with the business.

Experience Background
- Manual testing of web applications and end-to-end business workflows.
- Functional, regression, integration, exploratory, and UAT testing.
- API testing using Postman or equivalent tools.
- Backend testing and database validation using SQL.
- Test case design, test planning, defect tracking, and test documentation.
- Automation testing using Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or equivalent frameworks.
- Testing RESTful APIs, third-party integrations, and asynchronous workflows.
- Testing payment gateways, transaction processing, and webhook-based integrations.
- Experience with Agile development methodologies and cross-functional teams.
- Experience in fintech, banking, stockbroking, payments, investment platforms, or financial services is preferred.

📌 QA Engineer (India)
🏢 prachay group
📍 India