Trainee QA Developer

About Us

Value Research is one of India s most trusted independent investment research firms, helping investors make informed financial decisions since 1990. Built on a foundation of unbiased analysis and data integrity, we serve millions of investors, financial advisors, and institutions across the country.

Our digital ecosystem includes platforms such as:

Value Research Online - Comprehensive research and insights on mutual funds and investment products

Value Research Fund Advisor is an integrated mutual fund investing platform that combines personalised investment advice, analytics, portfolio insights, and direct transaction capabilities - enabling investors to build, track, and manage their mutual fund portfolios efficiently in one place.

Value Research Stock Advisor - A premium research and advisory platform providing stock recommendations, analysis, and long-term investment guidance

Across these platforms, we manage large financial datasets, analytical models, and high user traffic while maintaining the highest standards of accuracy and reliability. Trust is our biggest asset - and technology is central to delivering that trust at scale.

As we continue to expand our digital capabilities, quality, performance, and system stability are critical to our success. We are a product-focused organization where engineering, research, and data teams collaborate closely to build scalable and high-impact financial technology solutions. Role Summary We are looking for an experienced QA Lead to own and strengthen our quality strategy across a complex digital product. The ideal candidate will lead a small automation team, define testing standards, improve release confidence, and collaborate closely with Engineering and DevOps. This role requires strong hands-on automation experience along with leadership and process maturity.

Key Responsibilities :

QA Strategy Leadership

Define overall QA strategy (manual + automation)

Establish quality standards and best practices

Create test plans for complex features

Drive shift-left testing approach

Define quality gates before release Automation Ownership

Review and improve current automation framework

Ensure stable and maintainable test architecture

Increase automation coverage (UI + API + integration)

Improve test reliability and reduce flaky tests

Integrate automation with CI pipeline Team Leadership

Mentor QA automation engineers

Review test scripts and standards

Help team grow technically

Participate in hiring future

QA members Release Risk Management

Work with DevOps to support CI/CD pipelines

Define release readiness criteria

Identify high-risk areas in product

Ensure regression coverage before deployments

Participate in production issue

RCA Collaboration

Work closely with:

Backend engineers

Frontend engineers

Product managers

DevOps engineer

Advocate for testability during feature design Required Skills

Technical Skills

0-1 years in QA

Strong experience in: Test automation frameworks (Selenium / Cypress / Playwright / etc.)

API testing (Postman / RestAssured / similar)

Test design strategies

CI/CD integration knowledge (e.g., Jenkins or similar)

Strong understanding of:

Regression testing

Smoke testing

Performance testing basics

Test data management Infrastructure Awareness

Understand environment setup dependencies

Work closely with DevOps on staging production validation

Handle testing across multiple environments manually if needed

Understand server-based deployments

Soft Skills

Strong ownership mindset

Proactive problem solver

Process builder (not just executor)

Clear communicator

Comfortable working in evolving setups

Good To Have

Experience in scaling QA in growing companies

Experience building automation from scratch

Knowledge of performance testing tools

Exposure to security testing basics