Senior QA Test Engineer
Job Description
Key Responsibilities
Quality Assurance & Testing
- Analyze requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria to identify test scenarios.
- Create, maintain, and execute comprehensive test plans, test cases, and test data.
- Perform Functional, Integration, Regression, Smoke, and UAT support testing.
- Validate complex business workflows across eLIMS-BPT and integrated applications.
- Ensure complete test coverage and traceability between requirements and test evidence.
Test Automation
- Design, develop, and maintain automation frameworks and automated test suites.
- Improve automation coverage to reduce manual testing effort and increase release confidence.
- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
- Analyze automation failures and continuously improve test reliability.
Defect Management
- Identify, document, prioritize, and track defects through closure.
- Perform detailed root cause analysis for escaped defects.
- Work closely with developers and business stakeholders to validate fixes.
Release & Validation Support
- Support release planning, validation activities, and controlled deployments.
- Participate in release readiness reviews and risk assessments.
- Ensure required evidence is generated and maintained for regulated environments.
- Support audit and compliance activities when required.
Collaboration & Leadership
- Collaborate with Product Owners, Developers, Business Analysts, Functional Analysts, and Support teams.
- Mentor junior QA engineers and guide testing best practices.
- Participate actively in grooming, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
- Drive process improvements to improve product quality and team efficiency.
Quality Engineering
- Define and track quality metrics such as defect leakage, automation coverage, and test effectiveness.
- Recommend improvements in testing strategies, tools, and processes.
- Promote a quality-first mindset across delivery teams.
Required Skills & Experience
Technical Skills
- 5–8+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance.
- Strong experience in Functional and Regression Testing.
- Experience with Test Automation tools such as WebDriver IO ( preferred) or Selenium or Playwright, or equivalent.
- Experience with scripting language such as Java script/ Type script ( preferred) or C# or Java , or equivalent.
- Good understanding of API testing using Postman or similar tools.
- Experience with SQL and database validation.
- Knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies.
- Experience using Azure DevOps or similar ALM tools.
- Understanding of CI/CD concepts and release management practices.
Domain Knowledge
- Experience in Healthcare, Life Sciences, Laboratory Systems, LIMS, ELN, or regulated environments is preferred.
- Understanding of validation concepts and evidence generation in regulated systems is an advantage.
Soft Skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to work independently and take ownership.
- Mentoring and leadership capabilities.
- Strong attention to detail and quality mindset.
Nice to Have
- Experience with Performance Testing (such as JMeter or equivalent ).
- Experience with Azure services and cloud-based applications.
- Experience working on enterprise-scale distributed systems.
- Knowledge of security testing concepts.
Key Success Measures
- Low defect leakage to production.
- Improved automation coverage.
- High-quality release validation.
- Effective collaboration across teams.
- Timely delivery of testing activities.
- Continuous improvement initiatives contributing to overall product quality.
Additional Information
Personal Skills:
- Customer-service oriented with a problem-solving attitude.
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy is essential.
- Entrepreneurial thinking and flexibility to change.
- Very good English communication skills (concise writing and orally convincing);
- Structured and clear writing skills.
- Proven ability to solve complex business problems using analytical reasoning.
- Demonstrated positive attitude, self-motivated, team player.