Quality Assurance Product Owner

Role: Quality Assurance Product Owner

Experience: 8+ Years

Location: Noida, Gurgaon, Bangalore, Pune, Hyderabad, Chennai, Mumbai

Notice: Immediate

Job Description:

Key Responsibilities:

Product Ownership:

• Collaborate closely with onshore Product Owners, Business Analysts, and stakeholders to understand product vision, goals, and priorities.
• Act as the voice of the customer for offshore teams, clarifying requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Participate actively in Agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Track and communicate progress, risks, and impediments to onshore Product Owners and project managers.
• Facilitate effective communication between onshore and offshore teams to ensure alignment on product goals.

Quality Assurance:

• Develop, maintain, and execute comprehensive test plans, test cases, and test scripts based on product requirements.
• Perform functional, regression, integration, and user acceptance testing (UAT) to ensure product quality.
• Identify, document, and track defects using bug tracking tools; work with developers to ensure timely resolution.
• Advocate for quality throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Collaborate with developers and DevOps teams to support automated testing efforts where applicable.
• Ensure compliance with company quality standards and best practices.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Proven experience as a Product Owner, Business Analyst, or QA Analyst in Agile software development environments.
• Strong understanding of Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban) and Agile tools (JIRA).
• Hands-on experience writing user stories, acceptance criteria, and managing product backlogs.
• Solid experience in manual testing, defect tracking, and test case management.
• Familiarity with automation testing tools (e.g., Selenium, Postman) is a plus.
• Excellent communication skills to bridge onshore-offshore collaboration effectively.
• Ability to work independently and proactively in a distributed team environment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Basic understanding of the technology stack (C#, React, Python) is a plus but not mandatory.

Preferred (Optional) Skills:

• Experience working in distributed/onshore-offshore teams.
• Knowledge of API testing and performance testing.
• Exposure to DevOps practices.
• Familiarity with SQL and database testing.
• Prior experience in financial services, SaaS, or related industry.