QA Engineer

Position Summary

We are seeking a highly motivated QA Engineer to join a dedicated Vulnerability Remediation POD focused on

reducing Critical and High security vulnerabilities across enterprise applications. The QA Engineer will play a

critical role in validating security remediations, ensuring application stability, and supporting rapid remediation

timelines while maintaining quality standards.

The ideal candidate will have strong experience in functional testing, API testing, regression testing, test

automation, and working within Agile development teams. Experience validating security-related changes and

supporting enterprise applications is highly desirable.

Key Responsibilities

Vulnerability Validation & Testing

Validate remediation of Critical and High security vulnerabilities across web, API, and backend applications.

Create and execute focused test cases to verify vulnerability flxes without introducing regressions.

Perform risk-based testing to support rapid remediation cycles and SLA adherence.

Conduct smoke, functional, integration, and regression testing for security flxes.

Validate package upgrades, framework upgrades, and conflguration changes resulting from remediation

efforts.

Verify security scan flndings have been successfully remediated and closed.

Quality Assurance & Automation

Develop and maintain automated test scripts to improve remediation testing efflciency.

Leverage existing automation suites to accelerate validation cycles.

Execute API, UI, and backend validation testing.

Analyze test results, identify defects, and work closely with developers to resolve issues.

Ensure remediation changes meet quality, performance, and reliability requirements.

Collaboration & Agile Delivery

Use AI flrst model for delivery

Partner with Developers, Security Engineers, Architects, Product Owners, and Application SMEs.

Participate in sprint planning, backlog reflnement, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.

Assist in remediation prioritization by identifying testing risks and dependencies.

Support deployment validation and production readiness activities.

Governance & Compliance

Maintain test evidence and documentation for audit and compliance requirements.

Track testing progress and provide status updates to POD leadership.

Support vulnerability remediation reporting and governance activities.

Ensure compliance with enterprise quality and security standards.

Required Technical Skills Primary QA Skills

Functional Testing

Regression Testing

Integration Testing

API Testing

Smoke Testing

Test Planning & Execution

Defect Management

Automation Skills

Selenium

Cypress Or Playwright (Preferred) Rest Assured / Postman

TestNG / JUnit

API Automation

SQL Validation

Security Testing Knowledge

OWASP Top 10 awareness

Security Validation Testing

Authentication & Authorization Testing

Vulnerability Remediation Validation

Session Management & Access Control Testing

Secure SDLC Concepts

Tools

Jira

ConÀuence

Postman

Git / GitHub

Azure DevOps

Browser Developer Tools

SonarQube (awareness)

Snyk

Claude Code

Required Experience 5-8 years of QA experience in enterprise application testing.

Experience testing web, API, and backend applications.

Experience in Agile/Scrum delivery environments.

Strong understanding of test design techniques and defect lifecycle management.

Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and modern testing practices.

Experience validating application changes resulting from framework upgrades and dependency updates.

Preferred Qualiflcations ISTQB Certiflcation.

Experience supporting security remediation or compliance-driven initiatives.

Experience with test automation frameworks.

Experience In Financial Services, Insurance, Or Other Regulated Industries. Familiarity with cloud-based applications and microservices architectures.

Experience using AI-assisted testing tools and automation accelerators.

Key Competencies

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Attention to detail and focus on quality.

Ability to work effectively in fast-paced remediation cycles.

Strong collaboration and communication skills.

Ownership mindset with a focus on delivering measurable outcomes.

Success Measures

Validation of Critical vulnerabilities within 48-hour remediation timelines.

Validation of High vulnerabilities within 7-day remediation timelines.

Low defect leakage into production resulting from remediation changes.

High test coverage for security remediation activities.

Improved remediation throughput through automation and efflcient testing practices.

Timely delivery of audit-ready test evidence and compliance documentation.