Senior QA Analyst in Chennai, भारत

Responsibilities

• Participate in story refinement, clarify requirements, identify risks, and define testable acceptance criteria.
• Analyze requirements and technical implementations to determine impacted areas and appropriate test coverage.
• Create and maintain test strategies, test plans, test matrices, test scenarios, test cases, and test results.
• Execute manual and automated functional, UI, API, integration, regression, UAT, smoke, and post-deployment tests.
• Validate end-to-end workflows across systems and services using SQL queries, API responses, logs, and monitoring tools.
• Maintain regression suites and investigate, reproduce, and perform root cause analysis for testing and production issues.
• Document defects in Jira and collaborate with developers and support teams to triage and resolve them.
• Assist with testing tool and environment setup, installation, configuration, deployments, and configuration changes.
• Communicate testing progress, risks, results, defect summaries, and quality metrics to stakeholders and management.
• Expand automation coverage with Playwright and identify opportunities to reduce manual testing through scalable automation.
• Use AI tools, prompts, reusable AI skills, and workflows to improve test planning, execution, automation, and quality analysis.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• At least 5 years of software quality assurance experience testing complex applications and integrations.
• Experience with Agile or Scrum development environments and software testing methodologies.
• Understanding of test design techniques, defect management, databases, tables, relationships, and stored procedures.
• Ability to execute SQL queries and analyze application logs and system behavior for troubleshooting.
• Experience testing REST and SOAP APIs with Postman or similar tools, including authentication and error handling.
• Familiarity with test automation frameworks, automated testing practices, TestRail, Jira, and deployment tools such as Bitbucket or Octopus.
• Ability to use Playwright to automate functional tests and identify practical automation opportunities.
• Experience using AI tools for test case creation, test data generation, defect analysis, and QA documentation.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to collaborate with developers, product owners, and cross-functional teams.

Benefits

• Five days per week in the Chennai office with an assigned workspace, company-issued equipment, and hands-on training.
• Earned, sick, casual, national holiday, maternity, paternity, bereavement, and adoption or surrogacy leave.
• Group medical coverage for employees and dependents, personal accident insurance, wellness allowance, and annual health check-ups.
• Broadband reimbursement, meal card support, and commuting allowance.
• Provident fund, gratuity, voluntary provident fund, and pension benefits.
• Support for philanthropic initiatives, fun contests, and an inclusive work environment.