Senior Quality Assurance Specialist
Velotic
- Pune, Maharashtra
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Actively collaborate with developers, QA Managers, product managers to shape the product and deliver product releases
- Provide feedback to the team on product quality, call out risks/issues (if any) and can balance quality with time bound delivery with a release perspective
- Maintain and write automated test suites
- Ability to work with the QA Manager to come up with a testing strategy for a given release with inputs from team, if needed.
- Ready to work on fast paced geographically distributed team doing frequent releases
- Understand the product domain
- Hands-on experience in QA/testing (manual and automation), with 4-6 years in web/mobile/enterprise software testing.
- Strong expertise in automation frameworks and tools. Depending on project stack: e.g., Python + Playwright (or Selenium/other UI automation), REST API testing, integration with CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, etc.).
- Good understanding of software development life cycle (SDLC), Agile/Scrum methodologies, and test lifecycle (STLC).
- Ability to design test plans, test cases, test data, and write clear documentation. Strong analytical, problem-solving, debugging skills.
- Experience in defect tracking, root cause analysis and coordinating bug resolution with development teams.
- Good communication, collaboration skills; to work across teams (dev, product, QA), articulate QA concerns, risks, and quality metrics.
- Ability to mentor and lead a small QA team, review work, provide technical guidance, improve QA processes and practices.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering or similar domain
- 4–6 years of relevant experience