Quality Assurance Engineer
Posted 12 Oct 2026
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- Expected experience
- 2+ yrs
- Management level
- People management
- Employment
- On-Site
- Contract
- Full-time
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This role is for one of the Weekday's clients
We are hiring a Quality Assurance Engineer to lead quality strategy, automation architecture, performance engineering and security validation for a digital authentication platform serving the banking sector, alongside a consumer-facing application.
This role combines technical leadership, hands-on quality engineering, enterprise observability integration and compliance readiness. You will independently translate product and business requirements into scalable QA strategies, establish automation frameworks, ensure system resilience under high authentication traffic and build audit-ready processes aligned with fintech and banking standards. This is a mission-critical role focused on reliability, security and enterprise-grade performance.
Location: Hyderabad – On-site | Employment Type: Full-Time | Experience: 2+ years | Level: Senior QA Engineer
Requirements
Key Responsibilities
1. Quality Strategy & Leadership
- Own end-to-end QA strategy across B2B authentication systems and consumer applications
- Define testing standards, release governance and risk-based testing frameworks
- Establish automation-first QA practices
- Create structured regression, performance and security testing pipelines
- Collaborate with engineering and DevOps to ensure quality at every stage of the SDLC
- Lead QA planning, risk assessment and production sign-offs
2. Functional & API Testing (Authentication Systems)
- Design and execute comprehensive test cases for multi-factor authentication workflows, OTP validation flows, JWT / OAuth-based authentication, session lifecycle & token expiry, and role-based access control (RBAC)
- Perform API validation using Postman / REST Assured
- Validate edge cases including retry logic, rate limiting and lockout mechanisms
- Ensure cross-device, cross-browser and cross-environment reliability
3. Automation Engineering & CI/CD Integration
- Design and maintain scalable automation frameworks
- Implement UI automation using Playwright / Selenium / Cypress
- Build API automation pipelines
- Integrate automated test suites within CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins / GitHub Actions / GitLab CI)
- Ensure high regression coverage for critical authentication flows