? Senior QA Engineer / QA Technical Lead

Position

Senior QA Engineer / QA Technical Lead ? Analytics Application

Experience

8+ years of overall experience in software quality assurance, with strong experience in web application testing, API testing, automation, and analytical/data-driven applications.

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Senior QA Engineer / QA Technical Lead with strong expertise in designing and executing comprehensive testing strategies for enterprise and analytical applications.

The candidate should have hands-on experience in functional testing, automation testing, API testing, integration testing, regression testing, and performance testing, along with the ability to work closely with developers, data engineers, data scientists, business analysts, and stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

- Define and implement QA strategy, test plans, and test approaches for analytical applications.
- Analyze business and technical requirements and prepare comprehensive test scenarios and test cases.
- Perform functional, integration, system, regression, and end-to-end testing.
- Develop and maintain automated test suites for web and API applications.
- Validate analytical dashboards, reports, data processing, and business logic.
- Perform API testing and validate data exchanged between frontend and backend systems.
- Perform database and data validation testing using SQL.
- Identify, document, track, and manage defects through the complete defect lifecycle.
- Work closely with developers and business teams to troubleshoot and resolve defects.
- Perform root-cause analysis for recurring issues and recommend preventive measures.
- Execute regression testing for new releases and enhancements.
- Validate application performance, reliability, scalability, and usability.
- Ensure adequate test coverage and maintain QA documentation and test artifacts.
- Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies and contribute to sprint planning and release activities.
- Provide technical guidance and mentoring to junior QA engineers.
- Conduct test automation framework improvements and code reviews.




- Support production validation and post-release verification activities.

Required Technical Skills

Functional Testing

- Strong experience in functional and system testing.
- Experience creating test scenarios, test cases, test data, and traceability matrices.
- Strong understanding of SDLC and STLC.
- Experience with regression, integration, smoke, sanity, and UAT support.

Automation Testing

- Solid hands-on experience with automation frameworks.
- Experience with Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, or similar tools.
- Experience with programming languages such as Java, Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
- Experience developing reusable and maintainable automation frameworks.
- Experience integrating automation suites with CI/CD pipelines.

API Testing

- Strong experience in REST API testing.
- Experience with tools such as Postman, REST Assured, or similar.
- Validate request/response, status codes, authentication, payloads, and business rules.
- Experience automating API test cases is preferred.

Database / Data Testing

- Strong SQL skills.
- Experience validating data across source, transformation, and target layers.
- Experience testing ETL/data pipelines and analytical applications.
- Understanding of data quality, data reconciliation, and data validation.
- Experience working with large datasets is preferred.

Performance Testing

- Experience with performance and load testing using tools such as JMeter, LoadRunner, or similar.
- Ability to identify application performance bottlenecks and work with development teams on optimization.

Analytics / Data Application Experience

- Mandatory experience working on analytical, reporting, dashboarding, or data-driven applications.




- Experience validating complex business calculations and analytical outputs.
- Understanding of data pipelines, transformations, and analytical models.
- Experience testing BI/reporting applications is an advantage.

DevOps / CI-CD

- Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
- Knowledge of Git/GitHub.
- Exposure to Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar tools.
- Knowledge of Docker/cloud environments is preferred.

Preferred Skills

- Experience with Angular/React-based applications.
- Knowledge of Python and/or Java.
- Exposure to AWS or Azure.
- Experience with Snowflake or other cloud data platforms.
- Knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies.
- Experience with SonarQube and code-quality practices.
- Exposure to security testing is an advantage.
- Experience working with distributed/global teams.

QA Leadership Responsibilities

- Define QA standards and best practices across the project.
- Review and improve the overall test strategy.
- Mentor QA team members and provide technical guidance.
- Drive automation adoption and improve test coverage.
- Identify opportunities to improve QA processes and reduce manual effort.
- Coordinate with development, product, data, and business teams to ensure quality releases.
- Communicate QA status, risks, issues, and release readiness to stakeholders.

Behavioral / Soft Skills

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills.
- Strong ownership and accountability.
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with technical and business teams.
- Robust mentoring and leadership capabilities.

Education

Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.

Key Requirement Summary

8+ years | QA & Testing | Automation | API Testing | SQL/Data Testing | Analytical Applications | Performance Testing | CI/CD | Agile | QA Leadership

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