Quality Engineer

Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
Permanent
Full-time

7 days ago

Job Description:As a Quality Engineer, you will be a key individual contributor helping product engineering teams deliver changes with confidence, speed and reliability. With the support of the Senior Quality Engineers you help strengthen shared quality ownership within your team by applying risk-based thinking, supporting shift-left ways of working and improving automation that protects key user journeys. You will work across multiple teams at pace, where priorities shift quickly and the cost of uncertainty is real. Youʼll help teams build shared clarity on what “goodˮ looks like, and turn ambiguity into confidence through better signals, smarter validation and stronger automation around the journeys that matter most to customers. This is a hands-on role in a growing environment, with plenty of scope to influence how quality scales as the product and platform evolve.Requirements:Roles & Responsibilities

Support your teams in building quality from the start, reinforcing shared ownership across the full delivery lifecycle.
Apply risk-based thinking to help the team focus validation on the highest-impact areas and maintain strong release confidence.
Support a shift-left approach by improving testability during discovery and helping engineers add earlier, higher-signal checks.
Contribute to automation for critical user journeys, improving coverage, maintainability and reliability over time.
Strengthen release readiness by improving quality signals, evidence and decision-making, ensuring outcomes are clear and accountable.
Improve defect prevention by supporting effective investigation, clear reproduction evidence and targeted follow-up actions.
Contribute to continuous improvement within the team by using insights and feedback to reduce repeat issues and strengthen ways of working.
Support capability growth by enabling engineers to follow agreed quality practices and automation standards.

Experience, Knowledge & Skills

Hands-on experience building and maintaining automated checks for UI and/or API journeys, ideally using Playwright with JavaScript.
Working knowledge of testing pyramids and strategies (unit, component, API and (end-to-end) and how they combine to provide meaningful confidence.
Confident in producing concise feature-level test strategies and risk notes that support shared ownership and clear decision-making.
Working knowledge of data and databases (e.g. MySQL), using queries to support validation and debugging.
Strong understanding of Agile delivery (Scrum or similar) and how quality practices support healthy delivery flow.
Clear written and spoken English, able to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Collaborative team player who contributes to discussions, supports others and actively participates in continuous improvement.

Desirable Skills

Experience contributing to improvements in an existing automation framework under guidance.
Mobile testing and performance exposure.
Advanced SQL capability for data setup and debugging (e.g. MySQL

Benefits:We also offer:

Flexible work environment (3 days work from office)
Group Term Life Insurance paid out at 3x Annual CTC (Arbor India)
32 days holiday (plus Arbor Holidays). This is made up of 25 days annual leave plus 7 extra companywide days given over Easter, Summer & Christmas
Work time: 9.30 am to 6 pm (8.5 hours only)
Compensation - 100% fixed salary disbursement and no variable component.

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