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Quality Engineer

Accenture Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

onsitefull-time
Posted Aug 3, 2026Apply by Sep 2, 2026
  • Role & seniority

    • Quality Engineer / Software Quality Engineer (mid-level)

    • Min. experience: 3+ years

    • Education: 15 years full-time education

  • Stack/tools

    • Test management practices and tools (not explicitly listed)

    • Automated testing (automation scripts/strategy for API, security, regression)

    • Code review participation

    • Defect tracking/reporting (tool not specified)

    • Cert preference: ISTQB or related

  • Top 3 responsibilities

    • Create and execute test plans/test cases, including API, security, and regression testing.

    • Build test automation strategy and develop automated scripts; support data/environment configuration for testing.

    • Identify, document, track, and report defects, and support continuous improvement via quality metrics.

  • Must-have skills

    • Test Management
  • Nice-to-haves

    • Quality Management

    • ISTQB or related certification

    • Strong QA methodology/tool knowledge; clear defect descriptions/test documentation

  • Location & work type

    • Chennai office (on-site/in-office implied)

    • Work type not explicitly stated (no remote/hybrid details provided)

Full Description

Project Role: Quality Engineer

Project Role Description: Enables full stack solutions through multi-disciplinary team planning and ecosystem integration to accelerate delivery and drive quality across the application lifecycle. Performs continuous testing for security, API, and regression suite. Creates automation strategy, automated scripts and supports data and environment configuration. Participates in code reviews, monitors, and reports defects to support continuous improvement activities for the end-to-end testing process.

Must have skills: Test Management

Good to have skills: Quality Management

Minimum 3 Year(s) Of Experience Is Required

Educational Qualification: 15 years full time education

Summary

Software Quality Engineers design, create, implement, and monitor processes that ensure that the final product satisfies end users needs and requirements, while also making sure no other influence will cause the product to malfunction.

Being able to fully understand what project managers and product owners expect, and to imagine what end users need and how they will interact with the product are just some of the points that a Soft-ware Quality Engineer has to be able to fulfill.

Clear and precise communications enable a Quality Assurance Engineer to address identified problems quickly to relevant partners in other teams and make a valuable contribution to improving the overall product quality.

Roles & Responsibilities

Review requirements, specifications and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback.

Create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases to identify software problems.

Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activities.

Identify, record, document thoroughly and track bugs.

Perform thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved.

Develop and apply testing processes for new and existing products.

Liaise with internal teams (e.g. product leads and developers) to identify system requirements.

Investigate the causes of non-conforming software.

Work together with software developers to enhance and im-prove software.

Track quality assurance metrics, like defect densities and open defect counts.

Stay up to date with new testing tools and test strategies.

Professional & Technical Skills

BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject or comparable qualifications/experience.

Proven work experience in software development or in soft-ware quality assurance.

Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes.

Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans, test cases and defect descriptions.

ISTQB or related certification is preferable.

Additional Information

The candidate should have minimum 3 years of experience in Test Management. This position is based at our Chennai office. A 15 years full time education is required.

Test ManagementQuality ManagementAutomation StrategyRegression TestingAPI TestingSecurity TestingDefect TrackingTest PlanningTest Case DesignSoftware QA Methodologiesmulti-location

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