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Senior QA Engineer (Banking and Financial Applications)3 + YEARS (India)
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IMPACTO DIGIFIN TECHNOLOGIES
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Job Description Senior QA Engineer (Banking & Financial Applications)Position Details
Job Title: Senior QA Engineer
Experience: 3+ Years
Employment Type: Full time
Department: Quality Assurance
Role Overview
We are seeking a highly skilled and proactive Senior QA Lead to take ownership of quality assurance across our banking and financial applications. The ideal candidate will be responsible for planning, managing, and executing end-to-end testing activities while leading a team of QA engineers.
This role requires a strong blend of technical expertise, leadership, client communication, and quality governance. The candidate will be expected to interact directly with customers and stakeholders, manage testing initiatives across multiple platforms, drive quality improvements, and lead the organization's transition from predominantly manual testing to scalable automation testing practices.
The successful candidate must possess excellent communication skills, strong analytical thinking, and the ability to confidently represent the QA function in both internal and client-facing discussions.
Key ResponsibilitiesQuality Assurance Leadership
- Own and manage the complete Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
- Define QA strategy, testing methodologies, standards, and best practices.
- Establish quality benchmarks and release readiness criteria.
- Ensure delivery of high-quality software across all products and releases.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives within the QA function.
- Monitor product quality metrics and provide regular reporting to management.
Manual Testing & Quality Management
- Design, review, and execute detailed test plans, test scenarios, and test cases.
- Perform functional, regression, integration, system, exploratory, smoke, and user acceptance testing.
- Validate complex business workflows within banking and financial systems.
- Identify, document, track, and verify defects through closure.
- Ensure adequate test coverage across all business-critical features.
- Perform root cause analysis for production issues and quality incidents.
Test Automation Leadership
- Drive the organization's automation testing strategy.
- Identify manual testing areas suitable for automation.
- Build and maintain automation roadmaps and implementation plans.
- Work closely with engineering teams to improve automated test coverage.
- Establish automation frameworks, standards, and coding practices.
- Continuously improve automation efficiency and execution reliability.
- Measure and report automation coverage and effectiveness.
Team Leadership & Management
- Lead and mentor a team of QA engineers.
- Allocate work and monitor team performance and deliverables.
- Conduct test reviews and quality audits.
- Support team development through coaching and knowledge-sharing.
- Establish accountability and ownership within the QA team.
- Assist in hiring, onboarding, and training QA resources when required.
Client & Stakeholder Management
- Act as the primary QA representative in client interactions.
- Conduct customer calls, demonstrations, and quality review meetings.
- Communicate testing progress, risks, issues, and mitigation plans.
- Handle client concerns and escalations professionally and diplomatically.
- Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Business Analysts, Developers, DevOps teams, and senior leadership.
- Build strong stakeholder relationships through clear and effective communication.
Banking Domain Quality Assurance
- Validate banking, financial, and transaction-based workflows.
- Ensure accuracy of financial calculations, reconciliations, and transaction processing.
- Test security-sensitive and compliance-driven functionality.
- Verify integration with third-party financial systems, APIs, and services.
- Understand business-critical workflows and identify potential quality risks.
Required Technical SkillsTesting Expertise
- Strong experience in Manual Testing.
- Strong understanding of Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
- Strong understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
- Experience in Functional Testing.
- Regression Testing.
- Integration Testing.
- System Testing.
- User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
- Exploratory Testing.
- Smoke & Sanity Testing.
- Defect Lifecycle Management.
Automation Testing
Hands-on experience with one or more of:
- Selenium
- Playwright
- Cypress
- Appium
Experience with:
- Test automation framework design
- Automated regression suites
- Cross-browser testing
- Test execution pipelines
- Automation reporting and analysis
API Testing
- Postman
- REST APIs
- API Validation
- API Automation
- JSON/XML Validation
Database Testing
- SQL
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- Data Validation
- Query Analysis
Ability to:
- Write and execute SQL queries.
- Validate backend data against application workflows.
- Investigate data-related defects.
Frontend & Backend Understanding
The candidate should possess a good .
Job Title: Senior QA Engineer
Experience: 3+ Years
Employment Type: Full time
Department: Quality Assurance
Role Overview
We are seeking a highly skilled and proactive Senior QA Lead to take ownership of quality assurance across our banking and financial applications. The ideal candidate will be responsible for planning, managing, and executing end-to-end testing activities while leading a team of QA engineers.
This role requires a strong blend of technical expertise, leadership, client communication, and quality governance. The candidate will be expected to interact directly with customers and stakeholders, manage testing initiatives across multiple platforms, drive quality improvements, and lead the organization's transition from predominantly manual testing to scalable automation testing practices.
The successful candidate must possess excellent communication skills, strong analytical thinking, and the ability to confidently represent the QA function in both internal and client-facing discussions.
Key ResponsibilitiesQuality Assurance Leadership
- Own and manage the complete Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
- Define QA strategy, testing methodologies, standards, and best practices.
- Establish quality benchmarks and release readiness criteria.
- Ensure delivery of high-quality software across all products and releases.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives within the QA function.
- Monitor product quality metrics and provide regular reporting to management.
Manual Testing & Quality Management
- Design, review, and execute detailed test plans, test scenarios, and test cases.
- Perform functional, regression, integration, system, exploratory, smoke, and user acceptance testing.
- Validate complex business workflows within banking and financial systems.
- Identify, document, track, and verify defects through closure.
- Ensure adequate test coverage across all business-critical features.
- Perform root cause analysis for production issues and quality incidents.
Test Automation Leadership
- Drive the organization's automation testing strategy.
- Identify manual testing areas suitable for automation.
- Build and maintain automation roadmaps and implementation plans.
- Work closely with engineering teams to improve automated test coverage.
- Establish automation frameworks, standards, and coding practices.
- Continuously improve automation efficiency and execution reliability.
- Measure and report automation coverage and effectiveness.
Team Leadership & Management
- Lead and mentor a team of QA engineers.
- Allocate work and monitor team performance and deliverables.
- Conduct test reviews and quality audits.
- Support team development through coaching and knowledge-sharing.
- Establish accountability and ownership within the QA team.
- Assist in hiring, onboarding, and training QA resources when required.
Client & Stakeholder Management
- Act as the primary QA representative in client interactions.
- Conduct customer calls, demonstrations, and quality review meetings.
- Communicate testing progress, risks, issues, and mitigation plans.
- Handle client concerns and escalations professionally and diplomatically.
- Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Business Analysts, Developers, DevOps teams, and senior leadership.
- Build strong stakeholder relationships through clear and effective communication.
Banking Domain Quality Assurance
- Validate banking, financial, and transaction-based workflows.
- Ensure accuracy of financial calculations, reconciliations, and transaction processing.
- Test security-sensitive and compliance-driven functionality.
- Verify integration with third-party financial systems, APIs, and services.
- Understand business-critical workflows and identify potential quality risks.
Required Technical SkillsTesting Expertise
- Strong experience in Manual Testing.
- Strong understanding of Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
- Strong understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
- Experience in Functional Testing.
- Regression Testing.
- Integration Testing.
- System Testing.
- User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
- Exploratory Testing.
- Smoke & Sanity Testing.
- Defect Lifecycle Management.
Automation Testing
Hands-on experience with one or more of:
- Selenium
- Playwright
- Cypress
- Appium
Experience with:
- Test automation framework design
- Automated regression suites
- Cross-browser testing
- Test execution pipelines
- Automation reporting and analysis
API Testing
- Postman
- REST APIs
- API Validation
- API Automation
- JSON/XML Validation
Database Testing
- SQL
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- Data Validation
- Query Analysis
Ability to:
- Write and execute SQL queries.
- Validate backend data against application workflows.
- Investigate data-related defects.
Frontend & Backend Understanding
The candidate should possess a good .
