Release Management QA Engineer

Job Title: Release Management QA
Location: Pune/ Gurugram
Experience Level: 3-5 years
Job Type: Full-time

Role Overview
We are seeking a detail-oriented and collaborative to join our team. In this pivotal role, you will be responsible for ensuring the Release Management QA Engineer quality and integrity of software releases across various environments. You will work closely with development, operations, and business stakeholders to plan, coordinate, and execute testing phases and deployment activities, ensuring a seamless and reliable delivery of high-quality products to our users.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product, engineering, and release teams to define test scope for global releases across core platforms.
• Design and execute manual and automated test cases for payments, wallet, checkout, and merchant APIs.
• Validate builds in sandbox, staging, and production-like environments, ensuring data consistency and deployment integrity.
• Participate in release readiness reviews, change impact analysis, and CAB meetings.
• Conduct post-release sanity checks and support defect triage with engineering and support teams.
• Apply stratified sampling techniques for low-risk modules and full coverage for high-risk flows (e.g., payment authorization, fraud detection).
• Log, track, and retest defects using internal tools and JIRA.
• Collaborate with performance QA engineers to validate system responsiveness under peak load conditions
• Ensure traceability between business requirements, test cases, and production defects.
• Contribute to continuous improvement by analyzing defect leakage, test gaps, and automation ROI.

Functional Requirements

• Deep understanding of QA methodologies, tools, and processes in a regulated fintech environment.
• Experience testing high-volume, multi-tenant systems with real-time transaction processing.
• Familiarity with GDPR, and other compliance frameworks impacting QA.
• Ability to write clear, comprehensive test plans and test cases for payments, subscriptions, and merchant onboarding flows.
• Exposure to Agile/Scrum and CI/CD pipelines in a global release model.
• Experience with exploratory testing and edge-case identification in financial systems.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Experience:
  • Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in Quality Assurance, software testing, or a related role within a software development environment.
  • Proven experience with manual and automated testing tools and techniques.
  • Familiarity with release management, version control systems (Git, SVN), and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI).
• Technical Skills:
  • Strong understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban).
  • Proficiency in test management and bug tracking tools (Jira, Bugzilla).
  • Basic knowledge of scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash) for automation tasks is a plus.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Relevant certifications such as ISTQB, Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), or ITIL Foundation.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).