Senior Quality Engineer

Overview

Senior Quality Engineer on the StarRez Foundations product team, acting as a hands-on quality champion who partners with product, design and engineering to protect the customer experience and release confidence across the platform.

What you'll do

• Own and drive end-to-end quality for the StarRez Foundations product team.
• Champion quality standards by establishing, maintaining and advocating for quality gates and rapid feedback loops throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
• Design and execute testing, validation and risk mitigation strategies for feature-related initiatives.
• Partner with Product, Design and Engineering from ideation through delivery to ensure acceptance criteria, personas, customer journeys, test data, edge cases, non-functional expectations and quality gates reflect real customer operations.
• Champion a shift-left quality culture by mentoring developers, product managers and design partners on testing principles, behavioural specifications, clear acceptance criteria, early validation, fast feedback loops and production-quality observability.
• Work effectively with ambiguity, proactively designing quality solutions based on evidence when clear requirements, behaviour definitions, customer workflow expectations or quality baselines do not yet exist.
• Champion test automation best practices, create clear testing standards, and coach engineers to take shared ownership of building and maintaining automated tests.
• Apply AI tools and techniques to improve product quality and enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of quality engineering practices and processes.
• Own production defect triage for your product domain, partnering with Engineering, Product and Support to assess impact, prioritise fixes, identify root causes and drive preventative quality improvements.

What you'll need

• 5+ years of progressive software engineering or quality engineering with deep focus on quality in complex, distributed systems environments.
• SQL, required for test data setup, backend validation, data integrity checks across integrations and root cause analysis.
• Tech stack context: .NET/C#, SQL Server, Azure.
• API testing tooling such as Postman, REST Assured or similar.
• Cloud platform exposure (Azure/AWS).
• Proven track record advocating for quality and influencing technical direction through innovative, pragmatic and evidence-based approaches.
• Hands-on experience with web-based products, including front-end behaviour, API, service integration and functional end-to-end testing.
• Experience with test automation frameworks such as Playwright, Cypress or Selenium.
• Practical experience integrating automated tests and quality checks into CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub, Buildkite or similar.
• Experience contributing to deployment and release quality gates, including test suite selection and environment readiness checks.
• Genuine curiosity and passion for product architecture, user experience flows, customer workflows, analytics use cases and the business impact of engineering and data decisions.
• Experience utilising AI in modern software development.

Nice to have

• Candidates who do not meet every listed qualification but feel they have what it takes to succeed are encouraged to apply.

Details

• Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
• Individual contributor role, not a people-management position.