Company Description

Qeleo Technolabs is a leading IT outsourcing company dedicated to providing innovative and cost-effective technology solutions that help businesses succeed in the digital era. With an experienced and skilled team, Qeleo specializes in software development, IT support, cloud services, and software testing and QA. Their services empower businesses to streamline operations, boost productivity, and maintain a competitive edge. Employees at Qeleo benefit from a collaborative work environment, competitive salaries, a great work-life balance, and additional perks like health insurance and team engagement activities.

Position Summary:

The Senior QA Engineer is a technical quality owner responsible for ensuring the reliability, performance, and correctness of our consumer web application, SaaS management platform, backend services, and mobile applications. This role goes beyond executing tests — the Senior QA Engineer partners with Product Managers and Engineers early in the development lifecycle to prevent defects before development begins.

This position is responsible for:

Reviewing requirements
Designing test strategies
Building and maintaining automated testing frameworks
Improving QA processes
The ideal candidate is a hybrid QA + SDET mindset — strong in testing and technically capable.

Responsibilities:

Quality Ownership & Test Strategy
Act as the QA owner for features from requirement review through production validation
Participate in sprint planning, grooming, and design discussions
Review Product Requirement Documents (PRDs) and identifyMissing edge cases,Ambiguous behavior, Unclear workflows, Inconsistent business logic
Define test strategy (functional, integration, regression, and exploratory)
Identify high-risk areas and prioritize testing accordingly

Test Design & Documentation

Write clear, structured, and reusable test cases
Design boundary, negative, and failure-scenario test coverage
Create acceptance criteria when requirements are incomplete
Develop traceability between requirements and test coverage

Automation & Framework Development

Design and maintain automated test suites for:
Web UI
APIs
Backend services
Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps)
Reduce regression cycle time through automation
Review existing automation for reliability and maintainability

Expected mindset: automation is the default — manual is the fallback.

Technical Testing

API testing (authentication, payload validation, error handling)
Database validation using SQL Server
Log analysis and defect root cause isolation
Verify deployments in Azure environments

Mobile Testing

Validate mobile features (iOS and Android)
Understand app-to-API integration behavior
Identify issues related to device types, OS versions, and network conditions

Defect Management

Perform deep investigation of defects
Reproduce and isolate issues
Provide developers with actionable bug reports
Verify fixes and regression impact

Required Skills

Technical

5+ years software testing experience
Experience testing web applications and APIs
Automation experience (UI and/or API)
SQL querying and data validation
REST API testing (Postman or similar)
CI/CD integration (Azure DevOps preferred)
Selenium / Playwright / Cypress
Mobile testing (Appium or manual)

Nice to Have

C# or JavaScript coding
Performance testing tools
Experience with cloud platforms (Azure preferred)

Soft Skills (Very Important)

Able to challenge unclear requirements diplomatically
Strong communication with distributed teams
Works independently without daily direction
Thinks in workflows, not just screens

What Success Looks Like (6–12 Months)

Regression cycle reduced
Automation coverage increases
Fewer production issues

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