Investment Services - QA, Officer

Overview

A hands-on QA leader to act as functional subject matter expert for Investment Services QA, coordinating multi-user concurrency tests and strengthening quality support across environments, data, interfaces, deployments, and end-to-end workflows, bridging product, engineering, QA, release management, and SaaS operations.

What you'll do

• Design and execute functional, integration, regression and end-to-end test scenarios for Investment Services applications and interfaces.
• Validate Kafka producer/consumer flows, including topic and partition validation, message publishing and consumption, message schema and payload validation, consumer groups and offsets, message ordering and duplicate handling, and retry, replay and failure scenarios.
• Develop and maintain Java-based test automation for APIs, messaging and backend services.
• Validate REST APIs and service-to-service integrations.
• Develop an effective test data strategy, including creation, management, refresh and validation of data across integrated systems.
• Perform database and backend validation using SQL.
• Validate data consistency across source systems, Kafka events, services and downstream applications.
• Analyze application and Kafka logs to troubleshoot integration failures.
• Participate in Agile/Scrum activities including refinement, sprint planning, defect triage and retrospectives.
• Work closely with developers, business analysts and other QA engineers to ensure complete end-to-end coverage.
• Create and maintain automated regression suites and integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines where applicable.

What you'll need

• Minimum 10+ years of experience in Quality Assurance.
• Extensive QA experience in enterprise software, data platforms, financial technology, SaaS platforms, or similarly complex regulated environments.
• Demonstrated ability to lead functional QA activities across multiple teams, systems, environments, and release timelines.
• Experience defining test strategies, test plans, test cases, smoke tests, regression coverage, end-to-end workflow tests, and release readiness criteria.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to identify gaps in test coverage, environment readiness, data availability, access setup, interface configuration, and deployment procedures.
• Hands-on troubleshooting mindset with the confidence to investigate ambiguous failures, gather evidence, isolate probable causes, and drive to rapid resolution.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to create crisp playbooks, runbooks, defect summaries, and status updates.
• Experience with cloud-native data platforms, data warehousing, Snowflake, ETL pipelines, data marts, APIs, batch process, or financial data workflows.
• Experience with Jira, Xray, defect lifecycle management, and audit-friendly test evidence.
• Experience coordinating testing across product development, engineering, QA, SaaS Operations, and support.
• Familiarity with test data management, client-like data sets, access grants, interface dependencies, and environment refresh or reset processes.

Details

• Location: Hyderabad, India.