QA Engineer

The Role:

We are looking for an experienced and professional QA Engineer to play a crucial role in maintaining quality within the team, collaborating with engineers and designers while contributing to best practices in the QA community and ensuring that products meet and exceed user expectations by being involved in the development process from the start.

Guided by the Lead QA Engineer, the incumbent shall apply testing principles, advocate for automation, and uphold governance standards, ultimately enhancing efficiency, resilience, and security in digital products.

Accountabilities:

• Maintain quality standards by supporting team members and promoting best practices within the QA community and ensure adherence to coding standards, contribute to quality-focused discussions, and provide insights on engineering stories to strengthen the team's approach.
• Collaborate with product leads, test teams, and stakeholders to ensure quality in engineering stories.
• Execute automated and manual tests, maintain test scripts, integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines, and track defects using tools like JIRA.
• Through test planning and adherence to best practices, enhance software quality and reliability while staying updated on industry trends to support continuous improvement.
• Identify system risks and support security measures while ensuring solutions meet industry standards and data privacy requirements. Assisting in monitoring tools for compliance issues and collaborate with teams to understand product needs. Additionally, contributing to reporting on quality metrics, test results, and insights, informing key stakeholders to enhance software reliability and adherence to best practices.

Requirements of the role:

Essential:

• QA Experience – Skilled in manual and automated testing within agile environments.
• Technical Expertise – Proficient in automation tools (Selenium, Cypress.io) and scripting (Java, Python, JavaScript).
• Testing Methodologies – Familiar with black-box testing, regression testing, BDD frameworks, and Cucumber.
• System & Database Knowledge – Basic understanding of RESTful APIs, relational databases, SQL, and CI/CD tools.
• Defect Management – Experience with device/browser testing and defect tracking using JIRA.
• Web Technologies & Communication – Practical knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and strong documentation skills.

Desirable:

• Security & Performance Testing – Understanding of security testing practices, best practices in software security, and performance testing tools.
• QA Mindset & Testing Techniques – Critical thinking, attention to detail, and exposure to usability and UX testing.
• Automation & Monitoring – Experience automating web application tests
• Database Testing – Basic knowledge or exposure to relational database testing, including Azure SQL Database.

Education: B.Tech/B.E./BCA/MCA

Closing Date: Sunday 27 Jul 2025 at 23:59 IST Time/ 19:29 UK Time

You must have the legal right to work in the India at the time of application.

Important Information:

Department: Engineering & Development/ India - Noida

Contract type: Fixed Term Contract (till 31-Mar-2026)

Pay band: 6

Location: Noida, India (Onsite)

Requirements:

Please note that candidates must have the pre-existing, legal right to work in India.

Mobility / relocation / visa sponsoring support will not be provided.

British Council supports working in new ways such as hybrid working, subject to full approval by line management and conditional upon our ability to provide the appropriate level of service. This may not be appropriate for all roles but can be explored at interview.