Qa Engineer

Title: QA Engineer

Location: Hyderabad (3 Days Hybrid)

Type: Contract

Responsibilities

Required Qualifications (Must Haves)

• 3+ years of agile QA engineering experience with test automation expertise in Python (pytest, requests) for API/backend services.
• Hands-on experience with REST API tools (Postman/Insomnia), contract validation, and strong SQL skills for database state and transformation testing.
• Familiarity with GCP services (Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, Cloud Monitoring) and CI/CD integration for automated test execution (Cloud Build, GitHub Actions).
• Experience testing financial/billing pipelines (invoices, charge reconciliation) and defect tracking platforms (Jira, TestRail).
• Proven track record designing and running business-led UAT and testing AI/ML-augmented workflows (model outputs, confidence thresholds, escalation paths).

Good to Have

• ISTQB Foundation or Advanced certification.
• Direct experience testing GCP-native architectures (Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, Cloud Scheduler).
• Domain exposure to real estate, facilities management, or professional services billing environments.
• Familiarity with performance testing tools (Locust, k6, JMeter), load profiling, and financial data quality frameworks.

Key Responsibilities

• Test Strategy & UAT Execution: Develop end-to-end test strategies for all pipeline components, establish UAT entry/exit criteria, and facilitate business UAT sessions to drive completion by late November 2026.
• Automation & Validation: Build automated API/rules engine regression suites on Cloud Run, validate AI model accuracy thresholds, and run performance tests against realistic BIL file volumes.
• Defect & Defect Management: Triage, log, and route UAT bugs with clear reproduction steps, track resolution progress, and validate fixes prior to production release.
• Governance & Pipeline Quality: Enforce deployment-blocking CI/CD quality gates, produce sprint test metrics, and verify security/access controls alongside security teams.Role & responsibilities

Preferred candidate profile