Software Quality Assurance (with Automation Experience)

We are seeking an experienced Senior Software Quality Assurance (Automation) to drive end-to-end quality for a Trade, Supply Chain, and Microfinance platform. This role will lead test strategy, automation, and release readiness, ensuring delivery of a secure, stable, and production-ready system.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and execute the test strategy, including test planning, environments, and release readiness

• Lead test planning, defect triage, and quality reviews

• Design and implement automated tests (UI & API) and maintain automation frameworks

• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps) with defined quality gates

• Oversee functional, integration, and performance testing

• Ensure data accuracy through validation and reconciliation

• Monitor quality metrics (defects, coverage, automation results) and provide clear risk reporting

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and vendors to resolve quality issues

• Support UAT, release decisions (go/no-go), and final test reporting

Qualifications (Tech Stack Focus)

✅ Core Requirements

• 6+ years' experience in QA / Testing (Agile environment). Experience as test manager is an advantage.

• Strong experience with test automation frameworks

• Test automation knowledge and experience is highly preferred.

• Must have experience as Test Lead in Agile software development.

• Must have proven business process and requirements analysis skills to support effective preparation of test scenarios and test cases

• Experience in testing regulated financial systems

• Awareness of data privacy, security, and audit requirements

• Experience supporting internal or external audits (advantage)

• Proficiency in Selenium or Playwright test automation frameworks is required

• Hands-on expertise in:

• Azure DevOps (Test Plans, Pipelines)

• Selenium + Cucumber (or similar UI automation tools)

• PowerAutomate

• API Testing (Postman, SoapUI)

• Performance testing (JMeter, Datadog Synthetics)

• Experience integrating automation into CI/CD pipelines with quality gates

• Solid understanding of API, UI, and integration testing

• Proficiency in SQL for data validation and testing

• Intermediate level SQL proficiency with joins capability is required for data validation and testing

• Experience testing web applications (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React/Angular)

• Experience testing backend systems (Node.js, Java, Python)

✅ Domain & Additional Skills

• Experience in financial services / banking systems (required)

• Exposure to regulated systems, security, and data privacy

• Strong experience in system integration and data migration testing

• Familiarity with reporting and dashboard testing

• Skilled in stakeholder reporting and risk escalation

Work Setup

• Hybrid (2-3x a week)

• May support critical release windows