Candescent is a forward-thinking technology company transforming how financial institutions deliver Intelligent Banking experiences. We unite digital banking, account opening, and branch solutions that power and connect digital banking, account opening, and branch solutions—creating seamless engagement across digital, remote, and in-person channels.
Our Experience-Led, Intelligence-Driven approach combines human-centered design with data, automation, and cloud-based innovation. Built on an API-first architecture, our extensible ecosystem enables institutions to adapt quickly, integrate easily, and unlock new opportunities for growth—turning every customer interaction into a moment of clarity, confidence, and connection.
SW QA Engineer II
LOCATION: Hyderabad, India
GRADE: 10
About Candescent
Candescent is a U.S.-based financial technology company that powers Intelligent Banking for banks and credit unions. The company helps financial institutions move beyond traditional digital banking by unifying data, channels, and real-time intelligence into a single, cohesive platform that delivers adaptive, human‑centered experiences across every interaction.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain test case repository
- Execute Functional, regression, integration, performance and system testing
- Identify, log and track defects with clear reproduction steps
- participate in root cause analysis with developers
- develop and maintain automated test suites
- need to focus on Component Failure testing
Requirements:
- Around 3 years of experience in manual and automation testing
- Experience in creating detailed test plans, test cases and test scenarios useful in Functional, Regression and performance testing
- Must have experience in testing Client-server interactions
- Experience with API testing tools like Postman, REST clients
- Familiar with Practitest and Playwright tools
- Ability to analyze logs and error messages
- Good understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies
- Experience in deriving metrics like test coverage, defect density, quality metrics by creating dashboards.
Why Join Candescent
- Work on enterprise‑scale systems with real‑world impact.
- Opportunity to adopt and shape AI‑assisted software engineering practices.
- Competitive compensation with strong work‑life balance programs.
- Inclusive, diverse, and growth‑oriented culture.
Statement to Third Party Agencies
To ALL recruitment agencies: Candescent only accepts resumes from agencies on the preferred supplier list. Please do not forward resumes to our applicant tracking system, Candescent employees, or any Candescent facility. Candescent is not responsible for any fees or charges associated with unsolicited resumes.
Skills Required
- Around 3 years of experience in manual and automation testing
- Experience in creating detailed test plans, test cases and test scenarios for functional, regression and performance testing
- Must have experience in testing client-server interactions
- Experience with API testing tools like Postman and REST clients
- Familiarity with Practitest and Playwright tools
- Ability to analyze logs and error messages
- Good understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies
- Experience deriving metrics (test coverage, defect density, quality metrics) and creating dashboards
Candescent Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Candescent and has not been reviewed or approved by Candescent.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Policies include unlimited vacation for full-time exempt staff, tenure-based accrual for non-exempt, plus floating holidays and sick leave. This breadth of time off suggests flexibility across employment classifications.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — A discount program is cited that provides access to deals at over 250 retailers. This perk adds everyday savings beyond core benefits.
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What We Do
Candescent brings together the transformative technologies that power and connect account opening, digital banking and branch solutions for banks and credit unions of all sizes. And we’re here to help you extend, differentiate and illuminate your digital-first banking experiences. Our industry-leading products and services, cloud architecture and on-demand developer tools give you the power to differentiate and deliver seamless customer journeys.
