Job Title: QA Analyst
Location: Gurugram, India
Experience: 3–6 years
Job Summary:
We are looking for a proactive and detail-oriented QA Analyst to join our Quality Assurance team. Reporting to the QA Manager, the ideal candidate will work closely with developers, product owners, and DevOps teams to ensure high-quality releases within Agile sprints. The QA Analyst should have a solid understanding of manual and automated testing practices, familiarity with CI/CD processes, and a collaborative mindset.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, write, and execute test cases and test scenarios based on user stories, requirements, and acceptance criteria.
- Perform manual testing of web applications, APIs, and back-end systems, ensuring full coverage.
- Collaborate with automation engineers and contribute to automation test case design and execution (if skilled).
- Log, track, and verify bugs through defect tracking tools (e.g., JIRA).
- Participate in Agile ceremonies such as daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and demos.
- Validate fixes and conduct regression testing to ensure stability across releases.
- Communicate test results, issues, and risks to the QA Manager and cross-functional teams.
- Ensure test documentation is up to date and maintained in tools such as TestRail, Zephyr, or Xray.
- Work closely with the QA Manager to continuously improve QA processes, tools, and standards.
- Support performance testing and test data management activities when required.
Required Skills and Qualifications:
- 3–6 years of experience in software quality assurance.
- Strong understanding of QA methodologies, testing types, and Agile principles.
- Proficiency in manual testing with working knowledge of automation testing tools such as Selenium or Functionize.
- Familiarity with API testing tools like Postman or SOAPUI.
- Experience in defect tracking and test management tools (e.g., JIRA, Confluence, TestRail).
- Basic understanding of CI/CD environments and source control (e.g., Jenkins, Git).
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
- Good communication skills and ability to work in a collaborative Agile team environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Exposure to performance testing tools like JMeter or LoadRunner.
- Familiarity with database testing using SQL.
- Experience with BDD frameworks (e.g., Cucumber) is a plus.
- ISTQB or other relevant certification preferred.
We offer you a competitive total rewards package, continuing education & training, and tremendous potential with a growing worldwide organization.
DISCLAIMER:
Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities of this job to other entities; including but not limited to subsidiaries, partners, or purchasers of Alight business units.
