Senior Engineer - Quality Assurance

This is a remote position.

Alternative Path is looking for a Senior Engineer – Quality Assurance to assist one of its clients, which is a SAAS platform helping alternative investment firms to streamline their document collection and data extraction process using Machine Learning. You will work with individuals in various departments of the company to define and craft new products and features for our platform, and to improve existing ones. You will have a large degree of independence and trust, but you won't be isolated; the support of the Engineering team leads, the Product team leads, and every other technology team member is behind you.

This role is responsible for leading quality review of various applications and includes creating test plans and strategy, test cases in partnership with developers, business analysts and project managers which are used to shape and verify code and check conformance to system requirements. The role relies upon test automation and manual testing tools. The person is to assist in defining QA coding standards and frameworks, and for identifying emerging technologies and evaluating their applicability to client’s business goals. This is an opportunity to join a team-first meritocracy and help grow an entrepreneurial group inside Alternative Path. You will be asked to contribute, given ownership, and will be expected to make your voice heard.

Role: Senior Engineer–Quality Assurance

Location: Gurgaon, India (Remote)

Key Responsibilities:

• Analyse and interpret business requirements and end-user feedback to provide meaningful and timely inputs and apply analysis to the testing process

• Create comprehensive Testing Strategies/ Plans, describing the testing scope, strategy, techniques, approach, and test data that you will use to test new features.

• Report defects for issues found under testing and manage the defect through its life cycle

• Create Test cases, relevant test execution reports and bug reports and use them to convey current state of feature under test

• Collaboratively work with the design and development team members to resolve identified issues/bugs in timely manner

• Apply the functionality knowledge and understanding to determine the impacted testing areas and come up with the relevant regression testing scope, plan, and timelines

• Do regression, exploratory testing along with planned and documented testing for new features

• Do automation planning towards automation testing of features and create automation scripts at UI and API levels using appropriate tools

• Take a stand and share views on the quality of feature under test, back it up with necessary data and metrics, use it to provide (or not provide) release sign off

• Do defect analysis of bugs found in Production environment and come up with systemized solutions to avoid these occurrences in the future

• Collaboratively work across all areas of IT development, actively liaising with developers and business stakeholders to improve overall quality and performance.

• Contribute to the continuous improvement of the QA test strategy and process

• Be aware of and understand the impact to QA of any new technologies being introduced.

Desired Skills and Experience:

Personal:

• Able to question the status quo

• Out-of-the-box thinking

• Smart & agile

• Fast learner

• Able to work autonomously

• Eager to learn new technologies

Technical:

• Candidate must be a Graduate/Postgraduate with proven experience in QA Engineering field

• Candidate has 4 to 7 years of experience in the Quality Engineering field

• Candidate has strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes, hands-on experience in using tooling for Test Case Management, Defect Management

• Utilize AI-assisted tools to improve test coverage, perform intelligent test case generation, support code reviews for risk-based test planning, and optimize both manual and automation testing efforts.

• Strong Analytical, logical reasoning, and problem-solving skills with Good Aptitude and communication.

• Flexible to work in designated shift hours to facilitate global communication

• Be willing to help your teammates, share your knowledge with them, and learn from them

• Be open to receiving constructive feedback and turning it into process improvements.