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Job Title: Lead Engineer QA Location: Gurugram, India Experience: 6+ Job Summary: We are looking for a proactive and detail-oriented Lead Engineer QA to join our Quality Assurance team. Reporting to the QA Manager, the ideal candidate will work closely with developers, product owners, and DevOps teams to ensure high-quality releases within Agile sprints. The Lead Engineer QA should have a solid understanding of manual and automated testing practices, familiarity with CI/CD processes, and a collaborative mindset. Key Responsibilities: Design, write, and execute test cases and test scenarios based on user stories, requirements, and acceptance criteria. Perform manual testing of web applications, APIs, and back-end systems, ensuring full coverage. Collaborate with automation engineers and contribute to automation test case design and execution (if skilled). Log, track, and verify bugs through defect tracking tools (e.g., JIRA). Participate in Agile ceremonies such as daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and demos. Validate fixes and conduct regression testing to ensure stability across releases. Communicate test results, issues, and risks to the QA Manager and cross-functional teams. Ensure test documentation is up to date and maintained in tools such as TestRail, Zephyr, or Xray. Work closely with the QA Manager to continuously improve QA processes, tools, and standards. Support performance testing and test data management activities when required. Required Skills and Qualifications: 6+ years of experience in software quality assurance. Strong understanding of QA methodologies, testing types, and Agile principles. Proficiency in manual testing with working knowledge of automation testing tools such as Selenium or Functionize. Familiarity with API testing tools like Postman or SOAPUI. Experience in defect tracking and test management tools (e.g., JIRA, Confluence, TestRail). Basic understanding of CI/CD environments and source control (e.g., Jenkins, Git). Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills. Good communication skills and ability to work in a collaborative Agile team environment. Preferred Qualifications: Exposure to performance testing tools like JMeter or LoadRunner. Familiarity with database testing using SQL. Experience with BDD frameworks (e.g., Cucumber) is a plus. ISTQB or other relevant certification preferred. We offer you a competitive total rewards package, continuing education & training, and tremendous potential with a growing worldwide organization. DISCLAIMER: Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities of this job to other entities; including but not limited to subsidiaries, partners, or purchasers of Alight business units. . About Alight Solutions Alight is a leading cloud-based human capital technology and services provider that powers confident health, wealth and wellbeing decisions for 36 million people and dependents. Our Alight Worklife® platform combines data and analytics with a simple, seamless user experience. Supported by our global delivery capabilities, Alight Worklife is transforming the employee experience for people around the world. With personalized, data-driven health, wealth, pay and wellbeing insights, Alight brings people the security of better outcomes and peace of mind throughout life’s big moments and most important decisions. Learn how Alight unlocks growth for organizations of all sizes at alight.com. Our values are the essence of who we are: Champion people. We are empathetic and have created a place where everyone belongs. And we win together. Grow with purpose. We are inspired by our higher calling. We fail forward and choose progress over perfection. We are brave, show grit and grow our whole selves. Be Alight. We are a beacon that empowers others. We act with integrity and are real. And we find ways to add joy. Our Colleague Experience At Alight Solutions, we are reimaging how people and organizations thrive. To deliver on this purpose, we do things differently. From company leaders to our newest colleagues, we all play a role in bringing our values to life. Every colleague shapes how Alight can become better, stronger and brighter – together. With technology as our catalyst and humanity at our core, we advance each day toward a better future in work and life. We understand the powerful human connections that create success for organizations. We bring an industry leader's expertise and a true partner's commitment to our benefits and administration solutions around health, wealth, HR, finance and consumer experience. Are you interested in helping us shape the future of work and life for organizations, people and their families? If so, you've come to the right place. Help us reimagine how people and organizations thrive! Our story starts with a simple, universal truth: Every business is a people business. We are Alight Solutions. Reimagining how people and organizations thrive. @AlightSolutions