QA Test Engineer – Product Development

Actively Reviewing the Applications

IBM

India, Karnataka Full-Time INR 1–4 LPA

Posted 5 days ago • Apply by April 29, 2026

Job Description

Introduction

As a QA Test Engineer, you will play a critical role in ensuring the quality, reliability, and performance of our software products. You will be deeply embedded in the product development lifecycle — collaborating with developers, product managers, and designers to build quality into the product from the ground up.

You will define and implement testing strategies, develop automation frameworks, and perform exploratory testing to ensure every release meets the highest standards of quality and user experience.

Key Responsibilities

Your role and responsibilities

Champion quality throughout the development lifecycle — from story definition to post-release validation.
Work in an Agile, collaborative environment to design, recommend, and implement testing standards and best practices.
Collaborate early in story development and design discussions to ensure testability, edge cases, and failure scenarios are well-considered.
Perform functional, integration, regression, and exploratory testing to uncover product issues before release.
Partner closely with developers and product owners to identify, reproduce, and triage defects, ensuring clear root cause analysis and sustainable fixes.
Drive the adoption and expansion of test automation — including unit, integration, API, and end-to-end tests.
Develop and maintain automated test frameworks and reusable test assets aligned with product architecture and CI/CD pipelines.
Contribute to continuous testing and continuous delivery practices, ensuring that every build meets product-grade quality standards.
Monitor product quality through test analytics, defect metrics, and release readiness criteria.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure test environments, data, and tooling are reliable and scalable.
Actively identify quality gaps and propose innovative solutions to improve product resilience and customer satisfaction.

Preferred Education

Master's Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

Required Skills and Experience

Strong experience in manual and automated testing within an Agile product development environment.
Proficiency with one or more test automation frameworks (e.g., Cypress, Playwright, Selenium, JUnit, TestNG, or similar).
Hands-on experience with API testing tools such as Postman, Newman, or REST Assured.
Familiarity with continuous integration and delivery pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI).
Solid understanding of software QA methodologies, test design techniques, and defect management practices.
Working knowledge of programming or scripting languages (e.g., JavaScript, Python, or Java) for writing automated tests.
Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git) and collaboration tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence).
Strong analytical and debugging skills with attention to detail and product behavior.
Experience testing web-based applications, APIs, and microservices.

Preferred Skills

Preferred technical and professional experience

Experience in testing cloud-native and distributed systems (AWS, Azure, or IBM Cloud).
Exposure to performance, load, and security testing tools and methodologies.
Knowledge of containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes) and test environment setup in CI/CD pipelines.
Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools to validate system reliability and performance.
Experience working in product organizations with a focus on continuous improvement and rapid iteration.