Senior Associate

Job Description & Summary:

Location- Pune

Note- This is a direct contractual role with PwC India for 1 year.

We are looking for senior QA Engineer to work with development team in testing area to deliver business value, taking direction from the QA Lead. In addition to the skills outlined for a Senior QA, we expect the following,

Responsibilities:

Engage with stakeholders to understand user stories and determine requirements.

Participate in daily operational activities to ensure that the platform is up to date.

Broad understanding of QA Process, software development process including design, programming, and documentation

Create and maintain detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test cases and test suits.

Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activities.

Design, develop and execute automation scripts using open-source tools.

Perform thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved.

Liaise with internal teams (e.g., developers and product managers) to identify system requirements.

Monitor debugging process results.

Investigate the causes of non-conforming software and train users to implement solutions.

Track quality assurance metrics, like defect densities and open defect counts.

Stay up to date with new testing tools and test strategies.

To assist in testing process to discover errors and issues in business processes, documentations, and user's lack of experience.

Prepare business test cases their execution and test reports.

Knowledge of testing tools to optimize the process and code quality.

Should have experience in working on at least one of the automation tools such as Selenium, Playwright, Qualtech, test Rigor

Work on automating test cases, automation execution, reports and updating existing scripts based on enhancements.

Track quality assurance metrics, like defect densities and open defect counts.

Stay up to date with new testing tools and test strategies.

Proficient in Functional testing process (SDLC, Test Plan/Strategies, Test Reports, and defect management

Mandatory skill sets:

Core Automation Testing:

Selenium Webdriver

Test Automation Framework Development

Data driven framework

Automation script Development/Optimization

API Automation:

REST API Testing

API Automation(Rest Assured)

Postman/Newman

JSON/XML Validation

CI/CD:

Jenkins CI/CD Integration

GIT/GITHUB

Preferred skill sets:

Conceptual skills

Ability to articulate and test the desired business outcome.

Service orientation with a focus on quality and customer satisfaction.

Unit and regression testing to strive for first time right deployments.

Troubleshooting and Diagnostics

Conceptual skills

Communication skills (verbal and written)

Type script, Exposure to build automation framework and building CI/CD pipeline will be an advantage.

Exposure to Agile/Scrum/SAFe framework.

Years of experience required:

5+ yrs

Education qualification:

Any Ug/Pg