Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Role Overview

We are seeking a Senior QA Engineer who will take end-to-end ownership of quality across products and releases. This role demands a strong quality mindset, hands-on testing expertise, and the ability to define strategy, mentor team members, and continuously improve QA practices across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the QA strategy, test planning, coverage, and overall release quality
• Define and execute risk-based, regression, and exploratory testing
• Validate user experience, workflows, and edge cases
• Perform API and backend testing , including authentication, authorization, and error handling
• Design, develop, and maintain automation frameworks for web and API testing
• Conduct database and data validation using SQL
• Perform defect analysis, root cause identification, and prevention
• Collaborate closely with engineering, product, and DevOps teams
• Mentor junior QA engineers and promote best practices

Required Skills

• Strong ownership of quality strategy and QA processes
• Expertise in manual and exploratory testing
• Hands-on experience with REST API testing
• Strong database testing skills using SQL
• Experience with web and API automation testing
• Ability to build and scale maintainable automation frameworks
• Solid understanding of test coverage, release readiness, and quality metrics

Nice to Have

• Messaging systems: Kafka / OpenSearch validation and log analysis
• Cloud exposure: AWS testing (CloudWatch, S3, Cognito)
• CI/CD pipeline integration for automation
• Experience with shift-left testing practices