About Vanguard Founded in 1975, Vanguard is one of the world's leading investment management companies. The firm offers investments, advice, and retirement services to tens of millions of individual investors around the globe-directly, through workplace plans, and through financial intermediaries.
Vanguard India Vanguard's office in India is a significant milestone in our global expansion. We are committed to establishing an enduring technology center in Hyderabad, Telangana and are excited to be adding talent who will focus on Artificial Intelligence (AI), mobile, and cloud-based technologies that drive our business outcomes and deliver a world-class experience for our clients.
Role SummaryThe Quality Assurance Engineer, Specialist role provides advanced level systems quality assurance testing services and implements and maintains new techniques and tools to improve the quality and efficiency of software development, while reviewing requirements, conducting advanced testing, analyzing results, and participating in design reviews to ensure functionality, performance, and early issue resolution.
Responsibilities- Maintains and implements test automation strategy, test design, and creation and coding reviews to ensure quality.
- Participates in the development, implementation, control, and distribution of quality assurance practices, standards, methodologies and metrics to ensure that all information system products and services meet company standards and end-user requirements.
- Analyses input and output of test data. Identifies discrepancies between requirements and expected results. Documents exceptions and makes recommendations for improvement.
- Evaluates, develops, and maintains quality assurance testing standards. Recognizes and identifies areas where policies and procedures need to be changed or developed and makes updates.
- Collaborates across IT teams to develop and execute manual End-to-End test cases and exploratory tests, following test case standards.
- Trains and mentors less experienced staff and resolves elevated issues. Researches and recommends new technologies and trends.
- Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.
- Review software requirements to create detailed and comprehensive test scenarios that align with the product's specifications and user needs.
- Conduct regression testing, stress testing and other advanced testing methods to ensure the product's stability and performance under different conditions.
- Analyse test results to assess database impacts, identify bugs, errors and usability concerns, ensuring the software functions efficiently across platforms
- Participate in design reviews, providing insights on product requirements, design considerations and potential problems to help mitigate issues early in the development process.
Qualifications and Skills- Minimum 5 years of experience in software quality assurance, with expertise in automation and manual testing.
- Bachelor's degree (B.E./B.Tech) in relevant fields such as Computer Science, IT, or Software Engineering, or a Master's degree/Diploma in Computer Science
- Must Have experience in Selenium
- Nice to Have- Java, Angular, Kong
- Understanding the code Java, Angular, Node JS, Automation skills, Postman, Cucumber, Cypress, AWS, SQL queries, TDD/BDD, Knowledge of Github, Bitbucket, Bamboo, CI/CD, Splunk, Honeycomb, Scripting language ex: Python
- Must have Agile, Confluence, JIRA, Monitoring and refining dashboards and must be comply with Continuous process improvement for process flows/workflows
- Hands-on experience with API testing (Postman, RestAssured) and performance testing tools (JMeter, LoadRunner).
- AWS cloud practioner certification preferred
- Proficiency in using JIRA, HP ALM, or TestRail for bug tracking and working in Agile/Scrum environments with CI/CD integration.
Location This role is based in Hyderabad, Telangana at Vanguard India. Only qualified external applicants will be considered.
Our mission Vanguard adheres to a simple purpose: To take a stand for all investors, to treat them fairly, and to give them the best chance for investment success.
Our commitment to you Vanguard takes the same long-term view of your success-at work and in life-with Benefits and Rewards packages that reflect what you care about, throughout all the phases and stages of your life. Our Total Rewards programs provide you and your loved ones with wellness support for key areas in your life:
Financial wellness We're committed to enabling your financial success and provide competitive offers and programs.
Physical wellness We're committed to providing benefits that support your physical health and wellness.
Personal wellness We're committed to providing resources that help support the full scope of your life.
How we work Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for most of our employees (crew members), designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.
