Skill: Quality Engineer
Must Have Technical/Functional Skills:
- We are seeking a highly skilled Quality Engineer (QE) with strong expertise in test automation, API testing, database validation, and quality assurance practices.
- The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, and executing automated testing solutions to ensure the quality, reliability, and performance of enterprise applications.
- The candidate should possess hands-on experience with Selenium, Playwright, Karate, Postman, Oracle SQL, and demonstrate strong stakeholder communication and collaboration skills.
- Exposure to Kafka and Elasticsearch (Elastic) is preferred to support testing of modern event-driven and search-based applications.
Roles & Responsibilities:
Test Strategy & Quality Assurance:
- Develop and implement comprehensive test strategies, test plans, and test cases.
- Define quality standards, testing methodologies, and automation best practices.
- Ensure applications meet functional, non-functional, performance, and security requirements.
- Participate in requirement reviews and provide quality-focused feedback.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives across testing processes and frameworks.
Automation Testing:
- Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks and scripts.
- Create scalable automation solutions using: Selenium, Playwright, Karate Framework.
- Automate UI, API, integration, regression, and end-to-end test scenarios.
- Improve automation coverage and reduce manual testing efforts.
- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
API Testing & Integration Validation:
- Develop and execute API test cases using Postman and Karate.
- Validate REST API functionality, response structures, and error handling.
- Perform integration testing across multiple systems and services.
- Verify data flow and message processing between integrated applications.
- Support testing of microservices-based architectures.
Database Testing:
- Create and execute Oracle SQL queries for data validation and reconciliation.
- Verify database updates, transformations, and business rule implementation.
- Perform backend testing to ensure data accuracy and completeness.
- Analyze and troubleshoot database-related defects.
- Validate source-to-target data mappings and reporting outputs.
Agile & SDLC Participation:
Participate in Agile ceremonies including:
• Sprint Planning
• Daily Standups
• Backlog Refinement
• Sprint Reviews
• Retrospectives
- Collaborate with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Developers, and DevOps teams.
- Provide testing estimates and support release planning activities.
- Ensure testing activities align with project timelines and sprint goals.
Defect Management & Reporting:
- Identify, document, track, and retest defects.
- Perform root cause analysis and support defect resolution.
- Collaborate with development teams to reproduce and resolve issues.
- Provide quality metrics, testing status reports, and risk assessments.
- Track test execution progress and communicate quality risks.
Stakeholder Communication & Management:
- Act as a key quality advocate across business and technical teams.
- Communicate testing progress, risks, issues, and release readiness.
- Participate in stakeholder meetings and project reviews.
- Ensure all stakeholders understand quality objectives and testing outcomes.
- Support business users during User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
- Event-Driven & Search Platform Testing (Good to Have)
- Support validation of Kafka-based event messaging and data streaming workflows.
- Verify message publishing, consumption, and event processing scenarios.
- Assist in testing Elasticsearch indexing, search capabilities, and data retrieval.
- Analyze logs and troubleshooting information related to messaging and search services.
Salary Range - $90,000-$120,000 a year
TCS Employee Benefits Summary:
- Discretionary Annual Incentive.
- Comprehensive Medical Coverage: Medical & Health, Dental & Vision, Disability Planning & Insurance, Pet Insurance Plans.
- Family Support: Maternal & Parental Leaves.
- Insurance Options: Auto & Home Insurance, Identity Theft Protection.
- Convenience & Professional Growth: Commuter Benefits & Certification & Training Reimbursement.
- Time Off: Vacation, Time Off, Sick Leave & Holidays.
- Legal & Financial Assistance: Legal Assistance, 401K Plan, Performance Bonus, College Fund, Student Loan Refinancing.
