Senior QA Engineer

Senior/ Lead QA Engineer - Remote India

Role Direction and Impact

The Senior QA Engineer will be a critical quality owner responsible for ensuring product reliability, scalability, and release confidence across assigned modules. This role goes beyond execution-focused QA and requires strong ownership, technical depth, and independent decision-making.

This engineer will:

• Own QA End-to-End: Drive quality strategy, test planning, execution, defect management, and release sign-off for assigned product areas.

• Build Multi-Layer Automation: Develop and maintain automation across APIs, end-to-end product flows, and backend/data validation layers.

• Ensure Data Correctness: Validate database and pipeline-level correctness using SQL and backend verification strategies.

• Leverage AI-Assisted QA: Use tools like Claude and Cursor to accelerate test generation, regression coverage, debugging, and productivity while applying strong engineering judgment.

• Improve Engineering Quality: Contribute to CI/CD quality gates, debugging, release confidence, and overall engineering excellence.

• Operate Independently Across Timezones: Work effectively with distributed teams, manage delivery ownership, and maintain strong communication with overseas stakeholders.

• Mentor and Influence: Support junior QA engineers and promote scalable QA practices across teams.

Technical Requirements & Key Skills

• Strong QA Engineering Experience: 10+ years of QA engineering experience in product-focused organizations.

• Python Expertise: Strong hands-on experience building automation frameworks and test suites using Python.

• API & Flow Automation: Proven experience automating APIs and end-to-end product workflows.

• Data Validation & SQL: Strong understanding of SQL, database validation, and backend data testing.

• Linux Proficiency: Comfortable working with Linux systems, logs, debugging tools, and command-line workflows.

• AI-Assisted Testing: Practical experience using Claude, Cursor, or similar AI tools in real QA workflows.

• CI/CD & DevOps Awareness: Familiarity with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Docker, and quality gate integrations is a plus.

• Distributed Team Collaboration: Experience working with overseas teams and distributed engineering organizations. (EST Working Hours)

• Version Control: Proficiency with Git-based workflows.