Senior Qa Engineer (Night Shift)

Must Haves:
• 5 to 7 years of Quality Assurance or Quality Engineering experience
• Strong functional, system, integration, regression, and exploratory testing experience
• Experience analyzing requirements, acceptance criteria, application workflows, and technical dependencies
• Ability to create detailed test scenarios, test cases, test data, and expected results
• Experience testing .NET, C#, Angular, web, API, and database-driven applications
• Hands-on Selenium automation experience
• Working knowledge of C# for creating, maintaining, or troubleshooting automated tests
• Experience validating data through SQL queries
• Experience with REST API testing using tools such as Postman or an equivalent platform
• Experience recording, prioritizing, reproducing, and retesting software defects
• Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis capabilities
• Ability to identify negative scenarios, boundary conditions, and edge cases
• Experience working in Agile or Kanban teams
• Strong written documentation and stakeholder communication skills
• Ability to work from India during hours overlapping U.S. Eastern or Western business hours

Plusses:
• Experience with Playwright
• Experience migrating automated tests from Selenium to Playwright
• Azure DevOps experience, including Boards, Repos, Pipelines, Test Plans, or release management
• Experience testing Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, MongoDB, or other SQL and NoSQL platforms
• Experience testing Docker or Kubernetes-based applications
• Experience with WinForms or DevExpress desktop applications
• Experience testing systems migrating from Service Fabric to Kubernetes
• Experience with CI/CD-integrated automated testing
• Experience supporting a large portfolio of independently released applications
• Familiarity with QA KPIs, dashboards, and service-level reporting

Responsibilities:
• Analyze requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, system behavior, and application dependencies
• Create risk-based test scenarios covering positive, negative, boundary, integration, and edge-case conditions
• Execute functional, regression, integration, exploratory, API, database, and system testing
• Develop and maintain Selenium and C# automated tests
• Contribute to the planned transition toward Playwright where directed by the QA Lead Engineer
• Review existing automated tests for reliability, maintainability, and meaningful coverage
• Validate application behavior across Azure-native, hybrid, containerized, and legacy components
• Query databases and inspect application outputs to validate data integrity and end-to-end processing
• Investigate test failures and distinguish application defects from environment, data, configuration, or automation issues
• Document defects with clear reproduction steps, evidence, expected results, actual results, severity, and business impact
• Participate in defect triage and root cause analysis
• Retest resolved defects and execute impact-based regression testing
• Support onboarding and knowledge transfer for assigned applications
• Maintain application-level test documentation, known issues, test data guidance, and reusable regression assets
• Report testing progress, blockers, quality risks, and release-readiness observations
• Support KPI data collection, including defect escape rate, test effectiveness, regression coverage, and production defect trends
• Mentor Mid-Level QA Engineers and review test cases or automation contributions
• Participate in monthly reporting, quarterly reviews, and continuous-improvement activities as requested

Job Description:
The Senior QA Engineer must be comfortable taking ownership of complex applications with limited supervision. The role requires a combination of technical depth, analytical testing, automation experience, and the ability to communicate risk clearly. Senior QA Engineers will also help elevate the performance of the broader team through mentoring, peer reviews, and reusable testing practices.

Additional information on Ideal Candidate:
The perfect candidate has strong hands-on manual and automated testing experience and naturally investigates beyond the immediate failure. The candidate can interpret application logic, query databases, test APIs, inspect technical evidence, and explain defects clearly to developers and business stakeholders. Experience working across multiple applications and changing priorities is highly desirable.