Senior QA Tester - SI
The Hackett Group Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Business Consulting and Services · 501-1,000 employees
About the role
The Senior QA Tester will define test strategies, manage test plans, and execute validation across feature, regression, and UAT cycles. They are also responsible for monitoring data pipelines, documenting defects, and ensuring release readiness through rigorous quality metrics.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must have 6-8 years of experience in QA or quality engineering with proficiency in Agile methodologies and ticketing systems like VersionOne or Jira. A bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field is required, along with strong skills in SQL and functional API validation.
Full description
Responsibilities
- Apply AIassisted test generation, test maintenance, and regression optimization using Codex or similar AI coding tools
- Maintain test evidence, traceability, and release signoff practices; support release checkpoints and quality metrics
Cross-train and provide QA coverage as needed.
Essential Skills
Job
- 6-8 years of experience in QA, software testing, or qualityengineering
- Experience defining teststrategy, test plans,test scope, and release-readiness criteria
- Experience creating and managing feature, regression, smoke, andend-to-end test plansin VersionOne or similar Agile ticketing systems
- Experience executing featurevalidation, regression testing, exploratory testing, and UAT support
- Experience with risk-based testing, defect triage, and coverage tracking
- Experience validating acceptance criteria, documenting defects, and driving retest/closure workflows
- Understanding of testevidence, traceability, and release signoffpractices
- Working knowledge of SQL fortest data validation, troubleshooting, and basicdatabase queries
- Familiarity with job monitoring, pipeline status checks, logs,and environment-level troubleshooting
- Ability to validate API responses, payloads, and system workflows at a functional level
- Experience operating in Agile delivery models such as Scrum and Kanban
- Experience with VersionOne, Jira, or equivalent ticketing systems for defect tracking and sprint support
- Understanding of Test Ops concepts, including test execution visibility, release checkpoints, and quality metrics
Personal
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills,with the abilityto coordinate with product, development, and business stakeholders
- Strong attention to detail withdisciplined test evidence and traceability practices
- A proactive approach to problem solving and release-readiness ownership
- Willingness to adoptnew AI-assisted toolsand continuously improveQA practices
PreferredSkills
Job
- Exposure to usingCodex or similarAI coding toolsto accelerate automated test creation
- Familiarity with AI-assisted test generation, testmaintenance, and regression optimization
- Understanding of future-state QA automation approaches such as AI-generated test cases, self-healing automation, and intelligent test selection
- Familiarity with Dagsterrun monitoring and data pipeline validation
- Experience supporting releasecycles for data-driven or SaaS applications
Personal
- Demonstrate proactive thinking
- Strong interpersonal relations and stakeholder coordination skills
- Ability to workunder stringent deadlines and demanding clientconditions
Other Relevant Information
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a relatedfield
- 6-8 years of experience in QA or quality engineering, preferably for data-driven or SaaS applications
- Willingness to cross-train and provide QA coverage acrossmultiple applications
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