Quality Assurance Engineer

Quality Assurance Engineer

Experience: 2–5 Years

Employment Type: Full-Time

Location: Mumbai - Onsite

About Aerem Aerem is India's end-to-end platform making solar adoption simple for MSMEs and homeowners, empowering them to harness the power of sun and reduce electricity cost by up to 80%. Our strength lies in delivering a comprehensive approach that addresses every friction point in solar adoption from finding the right installer to ensuring the right price, equipment, quality, and financing. We operate India's only RBI-licensed solar-focused NBFC and SunStore, a B2B marketplace that connects OEMs, distributors, and installation partners in a seamless ecosystem. This entire experience comes together on our integrated digital platform, allowing customers to manage their solar journey, from start to savings, in one place. Backed by Blume Ventures, UTEC, Avaana Capital, British International Investment (BII), SE Ventures, and Riverwalk Holdings, we are dedicated to transforming India's solar energy landscape while delivering exceptional returns for businesses and supporting local solar entrepreneurs.

About the Role We are looking for a highly analytical and detail-oriented QA Engineer with 2–5 years of experience in software testing, preferably within FinTech, Lending, Banking, or NBFC domains. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience testing Loan Origination Systems (LOS) and Loan Management Systems (LMS), along with automation testing expertise using Selenium and/or Playwright. You will collaborate closely with Product Managers, Engineers, Business Analysts, and stakeholders to ensure the quality, reliability, and scalability of lending products while supporting both manual and automated testing initiatives.

Key Responsibilities: Functional Testing -

• Analyze business requirements, user stories, BRDs, PRDs, and technical specifications.
• Create and maintain test plans, test scenarios, test cases, and test data. Execute functional, regression, integration, exploratory, smoke, sanity, and UAT testing.
• Ensure complete requirement-to-test-case traceability.

Automation Testing -

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test suites using Selenium and/or Playwright.
• Build reusable automation frameworks following Page Object Model (POM) and best practices.
• Execute automation suites as part of CI/CD pipelines.
• Analyze failures and maintain automation stability and coverage.

API & Database Testing -

• Validate REST APIs and third-party integrations using Postman and Swagger/OpenAPI.
• Perform backend data validation using SQL.
• Verify data integrity, financial transactions, and reporting accuracy.

Defect Management & Quality Assurance -

• Identify, document, prioritize, and track defects.
• Perform root cause analysis and support issue resolution.
• Collaborate with developers to reproduce and resolve issues.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, estimation, backlog grooming, and retrospectives.
• Contribute to QA process improvements and quality best practices.

Required Skills & Qualifications Testing & Automation -

• Strong understanding of SDLC, STLC, and Defect Lifecycle.
• Expertise in:
• Functional Testing
• Regression Testing
• Integration Testing
• Exploratory Testing
• User Acceptance Testing
• Hands-on experience with:
• Selenium WebDriver and/or Playwright
• Automation framework design
• Data-driven testing
• API testing
• CI/CD-integrated test execution
• Programming proficiency in at least one:
• JavaScript / TypeScript
• Java
• Python

Database & Tools -

• Basic SQL skills with experience in PostgreSQL, MySQL, or SQL Server.
• Experience using:
• Jira
• Postman
• Git
• Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI

Educational Qualifications:

• B.E. / B.Tech (or higher) in Computer Science, Information Technology, Electronics, or a related engineering discipline.
• Candidates from Tier-1 institutions with a consistently strong academic record will be preferred.

What We Look For

• Exceptional attention to detail.
• Strong ownership and accountability.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to understand complex business processes quickly.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced product environment.
• Effective collaboration with Product, Engineering, and Business teams.
• Passion for delivering high-quality software products.
• Experience in leveraging AI in automation efficiency and coding platforms like claude, cursor, etc is an added advantage.