About Vanguard
Founded in 1975, Vanguard is one of the world's leading investment management companies. The firm offers investments, advice, and retirement services to tens of millions of individual investors around the globe—directly, through workplace plans, and through financial intermediaries.
Vanguard’s India Office
Vanguard’s office in India is a significant milestone in our global expansion. We are committed to establishing an enduring technology center in Hyderabad, Telangana and are excited to be adding talent who will focus on Artificial Intelligence (AI), mobile, and cloud-based technologies that drive our business outcomes and deliver a world-class experience for our clients.
Role Summary
The Quality Assurance Engineer, Specialist role provides advanced level systems quality assurance testing services and implements and maintains new techniques and tools to improve the quality and efficiency of software development, while reviewing requirements, conducting advanced testing, analyzing results, and participating in design reviews to ensure functionality, performance, and early issue resolution.
Responsibilities
Maintains and implements test automation strategy, test design, and creation and coding reviews to ensure quality.
Participates in the development, implementation, control, and distribution of quality assurance practices, standards, methodologies and metrics to ensure that all information system products and services meet company standards and end-user requirements.
Analyses input and output of test data. Identifies discrepancies between requirements and expected results. Documents exceptions and makes recommendations for improvement.
Evaluates, develops, and maintains quality assurance testing standards. Recognizes and identifies areas where policies and procedures need to be changed or developed and makes updates.
Collaborates across IT teams to develop and execute manual End-to-End test cases and exploratory tests, following test case standards.
Trains and mentors less experienced staff and resolves elevated issues. Researches and recommends new technologies and trends.
Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.
Review software requirements to create detailed and comprehensive test scenarios that align with the product’s specifications and user needs.
Conduct regression testing, stress testing and other advanced testing methods to ensure the product’s stability and performance under different conditions.
Analyse test results to assess database impacts, identify bugs, errors and usability concerns, ensuring the software functions efficiently across platforms
Participate in design reviews, providing insights on product requirements, design considerations and potential problems to help mitigate issues early in the development process.
Qualifications and Skills
Minimum 5 years of experience in software quality assurance, with expertise in automation and manual testing.
Bachelor’s degree (B.E./B.Tech) in relevant fields such as Computer Science, IT, or Software Engineering, or a Master’s degree/Diploma in Computer Science
Must Have experience in Selenium
Nice to Have- Java, Angular, Kong
Understanding the code Java, Angular, Node JS, Automation skills, Postman, Cucumber, Cypress, AWS, SQL queries, TDD/BDD, Knowledge of Github, Bitbucket, Bamboo, CI/CD, Splunk, Honeycomb, Scripting language ex: Python
Must have Agile, Confluence, JIRA, Monitoring and refining dashboards and must be comply with Continuous process improvement for process flows/workflows
Hands-on experience with API testing (Postman, RestAssured) and performance testing tools (JMeter, LoadRunner).
AWS cloud practioner certification preferred
Proficiency in using JIRA, HP ALM, or TestRail for bug tracking and working in Agile/Scrum environments with CI/CD integration.
Location
This role is based in Hyderabad, Telangana at Vanguard’s India office. Only qualified external applicants will be considered.
Our mission
Vanguard adheres to a simple purpose: To take a stand for all investors, to treat them fairly, and to give them the best chance for investment success.
Our commitment to you
Vanguard takes the same long-term view of your success—at work and in life—with Benefits and Rewards packages that reflect what you care about, throughout all the phases and stages of your life. Our Total Rewards programs provide you and your loved ones with wellness support for key areas in your life:
Financial wellness
We're committed to enabling your financial success and provide competitive offers and programs.
Physical wellness
We're committed to providing benefits that support your physical health and wellness.
Personal wellness
We're committed to providing resources that help support the full scope of your life.
How we work
Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for most of our employees (crew members), designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.
Skills Required
- Minimum 5 years experience in software quality assurance with automation and manual testing
- Bachelor's degree (B.E./B.Tech) in Computer Science, IT, Software Engineering or Master's/Diploma in Computer Science
- Experience with Selenium
- Hands-on experience with API testing tools (Postman, RestAssured)
- Hands-on experience with performance testing tools (JMeter, LoadRunner)
- Proficiency with bug tracking and test management tools (JIRA, HP ALM, TestRail)
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum with CI/CD integration, Confluence, and dashboard monitoring/refinement
- Understanding of Node.js, SQL, TDD/BDD, Cucumber, Cypress, GitHub, Bitbucket, Bamboo, Splunk, Honeycomb and automation scripting (e.g., Python)
- Nice to have: Java, Angular, Kong
- AWS Cloud Practitioner certification
Vanguard Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Vanguard and has not been reviewed or approved by Vanguard.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support appears unusually strong through a 401(k) design that includes a match plus an additional employer contribution, which can materially lift long-term total rewards. HSA seeding and an enhanced employer match further strengthen the savings-and-benefits value of the package.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing and lifestyle support is reinforced by a sizable annual FlexFund stipend that can be applied across many day-to-day categories such as fitness, childcare, and other personal expenses. On-site or virtual clinics and fitness options add practical health and wellness convenience.
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Affordable Benefits — Healthcare and related benefits are positioned as comparatively affordable via heavily subsidized medical plans and broad coverage options. This affordability can offset moderate base pay for employees who place higher value on out-of-pocket cost reductions.
Vanguard Insights
What We Do
We are a community of 30 million who think – and feel – differently about investing. Together, we’re changing the way the world invests. Since our founding in 1975, helping our investors achieve their goals is our sole reason for existence. With no other parties to answer to and therefore no conflicting loyalties, we make every decision—like keeping investing costs as low as possible—with only your needs in mind. Vanguard is one of the world's largest investment companies, offering a large selection of high-quality low-cost mutual funds, ETFs, advice, and related services. Individual and institutional investors, financial professionals, and plan sponsors can benefit from the size, stability, and experience Vanguard offers. As of April 30, 2019, we managed more than $5.6 trillion in global assets. In addition, we have 189 funds in the United States and 225 funds in global markets. For Commenting Guidelines & Important information, visit here: http://vanguard.com/linkedin Vanguard Marketing Corporation, Distributor.
