Senior QA Engineer (Manual | Product Quality | API & Data Validation)
About FinacPlus
FinacPlus is a Great Place to Work Certified organization a recognition of our people first culture, collaborative environment, and focus on professional growth. We provide high-end virtual business process and technology services to leading global clients across finance, banking, mortgage, research, and data services. At FinacPlus, you'll work with world-class talent, cutting-edge technology, and international stakeholders while still enjoying the openness, agility, and career visibility of a fast-growing company.
About Our Client Toorak Capital Partners
You will be part of a dedicated engineering team supporting Toorak Capital Partners, a leading U.S.-based integrated correspondent lending platform that funds residential, multifamily, and mixed-use real estate loans across the U.S. and U.K. Headquartered in Summit, New Jersey, Toorak's leadership team brings deep expertise across real estate lending, capital markets, securitization, asset management, and credit. To date, Toorak-funded projects have renovated or stabilized housing for 9,000+ families averaging 500+ families every month. This is a rare opportunity to build mission-critical, cloud-based mortgage technology platforms that directly support one of the most respected players in the global mortgage finance industry.
Role Overview
We are looking for a Senior QA Engineer (Manual) who operates as a quality ownernot just a tester. This role requires deep expertise in end-to-end product validation across UI, APIs, and data layers, with strong ownership of test strategy, release quality, and defect prevention.
You will work closely with engineering, product, and data teams to ensure high-quality delivery of scalable, enterprise-grade applications, particularly in financial or data-intensive environments.
This is not a test execution role this is a quality leadership role focused on risk identification, system understanding, and production reliability.
Key Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end quality strategy across features, releases, and production validation cycles
- Design risk-based test strategies covering functional, integration, regression, and non-functional aspects
- Perform deep validation across:
- UI / UX flows (cross-browser, responsive behavior)
- APIs (request/response validation, error handling, edge cases)
- Databases (data integrity, transformation validation, reconciliation checks)
- Create and maintain:
- Test plans
- Test scenarios
- Traceability matrices (RTM) mapped to requirements and edge cases
- Lead defect triage and RCA discussions, ensuring root cause identification and long-term fixes
- Actively participate in requirement reviews and system design discussions to ensure testability and quality coverage
- Validate complex business workflows, especially in data-heavy or financial systems
- Drive release readiness decisions, including go/no-go recommendations based on quality metrics
- Identify quality risks early and influence engineering decisions to mitigate them
- Collaborate with automation teams to:
- Identify automation candidates
- Ensure meaningful coverage (not superficial automation)
- Mentor junior QA engineers and enforce high testing standards and thinking frameworks
- Continuously improve QA processes, documentation quality, and testing efficiency
Technical Skills
Core Testing Expertise
- Strong experience in Manual Testing of complex, production-grade applications
- Deep understanding of:
- SDLC & STLC
- Defect lifecycle management
- Risk-based and exploratory testing techniques
- Ability to design high-quality test scenarios beyond happy paths
Architecture & System Understanding
- Ability to understand end-to-end system flows (UI API DB)
- Experience validating distributed systems or multi-tier architectures
- Strong debugging skills across layers (frontend, backend, data)
API & Integration Testing
- Hands-on experience with Postman / REST clients
- Strong understanding of:
- REST APIs
- Status codes, headers, payload validation
- Error scenarios and edge case handling
- Experience testing third-party integrations or microservices interactions
Database & Data Validation
- Strong SQL skills:
- Complex queries
- Joins, aggregations, data comparison
- Experience in:
- Data integrity validation
- Backend data verification
- Reconciliation testing (especially in financial/data-heavy systems)
UI / Cross-Platform Testing
- Experience in:
- Cross-browser testing
- Mobile responsiveness validation
- Accessibility and usability validation
Tools & QA Ecosystem
- JIRA (or equivalent) for defect tracking and test management
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments
- Exposure to test management tools (TestRail, Zephyr, etc.) is preferred
Automation Awareness (Important but Not Mandatory)
- Strong understanding of automation frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Playwright)
- Ability to:
- Identify automation opportunities
- Collaborate effectively with automation engineers
- Candidates with only manual execution mindset will be filtered out
Observability & Quality Metrics
- Experience with:
- Release quality metrics
- Defect leakage analysis
- Test coverage tracking
- Ability to use data for quality decision-making
Security & Best Practices
- Basic understanding of:
- Input validation
- Data security testing concepts
- Negative testing / abuse scenarios
Experience Requirements
- 58 years of hands-on QA experience in product or SaaS environments
- Mandatory experience in testing production-grade web applications
- Experience working in data-intensive or financial systems is highly preferred
- Proven experience in:
- Owning test strategy
- Leading release quality
- Handling complex workflows and edge cases
What Makes a Strong Fit
- Thinks like a product owner for quality, not a test case executor
- Has worked on real production systems with business impact
- Demonstrates strong debugging and root cause analysis skills
- Comfortable working across UI, APIs, and database layers
- Brings a risk-first mindset rather than checklist-based testing
- Challenges requirements and identifies gaps before development
- Has influenced quality improvements at system or team level
- Experience in financial systems, data reconciliation, or workflow-heavy platforms is a strong advantage
Why Join FinacPlus
Great Place to Work Certified collaborative, inclusive culture
Exposure to global financial technology platforms
Work directly with stakeholders across India, U.S., and U.K.
Opportunity to work on data-intensive, enterprise-grade systems
Hybrid working model with strong work-life balance
High ownership role with real impact on product quality
Important Note (Screening Filter)
This role is not suitable for:
- Candidates limited to basic test case execution
- Candidates without API or database validation experience
- Candidates lacking production system exposure
- Candidates without ownership of test strategy or release quality
Location: Bangalore | Work Mode: Hybrid (4 days in office)
Timings: 11:00 AM 8:00 PM IST
Compensation: Best in Industry
