Senior Engineer, Functional Testing

Job Summary What do we want to know about you 1) Quality Strategy Test Planning

• Understand feature scope and identify quality risks, dependencies, and test coverage needs early.
• Contribute to test strategy, scope, and risk-based coverage across functional, integration, and end-to-end workflows.
• Create and maintain test plans, entry/exit criteria, and traceability from requirements to tests and defects.
• Provide realistic test effort inputs and highlight schedule or quality risks in a timely manner.

2) Test Design Documentation

• Author clear, maintainable test cases for functional, regression, exploratory, edge case, and boundary-condition scenarios.
• Define and maintain test data, environmental prerequisites, and test evidence required for effective validation.
• Apply structured test design techniques such as equivalence partitioning, boundary value analysis, decision tables, and BDD/Gherkin where applicable.

3) Test Automation Framework Contribution

• Develop and maintain automated tests for UI, API, and integration layers using the teams automation framework.
• Implement reliable smoke, regression, and acceptance tests with maintainable locators, reusable utilities, and appropriate data strategies.
• Support CI/CD execution by analyzing automation failures, improving stability, and reducing flaky tests.
• Participate in reviews of test code and test design; follow automation standards and contribute improvements to the framework.

4) Test Execution Quality Gates

• Execute functional, integration, regression, and release validation testing across assigned features and workflows.
• Support quality gates by providing accurate test status, defect trends, test evidence, and risk callouts before approvals.
• Maintain and execute smoke/sanity suites to support rapid validation and release confidence.

5) Defect Management Root Cause Analysis

• Log and triage defects with precise reproduction steps, logs, screenshots, test data, and impact details for quick isolation.
• Work with developers, QA leads, and product owners to support severity/priority assessment and timely defect resolution.
• Participate in RCA discussions and help identify preventive actions such as test gaps, requirement clarifications, or additional monitoring needs.

6) Shift-Left Quality CI/CD

• Support early quality activities by reviewing acceptance criteria, asking clarifying questions, and contributing to detailed impact analysis.
• Support test environment readiness, test data setup, and CI/CD-based automated validation where applicable.

7) Requirements Risk Management

• Clarify functional and non-functional requirements; identify ambiguity, missing scenarios, and contradictions early.
• Test for Non-Functional Quality requirements- Performance, Reliability, Security.
• Maintain requirementstestdefect traceability and support risk-based prioritization of testing activities.
• Validate operational scenarios aligned with TCOS domain use cases.

8) Collaboration Ownership

• Actively participate in ceremonies such as backlog grooming, design reviews, test planning, defect triage, and release readiness discussions.
• Collaborate with architects, developers, QA leads, and product managers to improve testability, reliability, and quality outcomes.
• Share knowledge with peers and junior QA engineers; support team capability development in automation, exploratory testing, and analysis.

9) Communication Stakeholder Management

• Provide clear quality updates including test progress, pass/fail status, defect trends, blockers, and release risks.
• Communicate release readiness inputs and escalate blockers with evidence-based rationale.
• Promote transparency in test approach, assumptions, tool usage, and trade-offs.

10) Innovation Continuous Improvement

• Identify opportunities to improve testing efficiency, coverage, automation stability, and defect prevention.
• Help reduce flaky tests, improve suite execution value, and use exploratory testing charters where applicable.
• Maintain living documentation such as test cases, test strategy inputs, automation notes, runbooks, and knowledge-base articles.

Qualifications and Requirements 1. Education

• Master's or Bachelor's in Electrical Electronics, Electronics and Telecommunication, Computer Science, Instrumentation, or equivalent

2. Experience

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or in STEM Majors