Associate Software QA Specialist

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🇮🇳 India – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

🟡 Mid-level

🔧 QA Engineer (Quality Assurance)

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First Advantage

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5001 - 10000 employees

👥 HR Tech

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

HR Tech • SaaS • B2B

First Advantage is a leading provider of global software and data for the HR technology market. Enabled by proprietary technology and AI, it delivers employment background screening, digital identity and verification services, APIs, and risk-monitoring products across the employee lifecycle. The company emphasizes automation and continuous identity verification, serving roughly 80,000 organizations in over 200 countries and territories, and maintains large proprietary databases (over one billion records). Headquartered in Atlanta and publicly traded (NASDAQ: FA), First Advantage focuses on helping customers hire smarter and onboard faster through software, data and services.

📋 Description

• Study current QA tools, methodologies, and programming techniques • Ensure software is tested and deployments are supported in line with QA processes and business requirements • Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business and system requirements • Analyze technical requirements and produce test estimates and approaches • Participate in Scrum ceremonies, including planning, review, retrospective, and daily stand-up • Develop and execute manual and automated test cases based on agile stories and documented requirements • Enhance and maintain Selenium, SpecFlow, and SOAP UI Pro automation suites • Perform regression, sanity, exploratory, load, and performance testing • Document, manage, and support defect resolution • Report defects in JIRA/DevOps and escalate deadline-impacting issues • Coordinate testing activities to ensure timely, high-quality implementation • Produce testing reports, test plans, test scripts, and traceability documentation • Identify and escalate risks • Improve QA processes through knowledge sharing and proof-of-concepts for new tools and processes • Mentor and support junior software testers by reviewing test documents, defects, and reports • Assist customers and other teams with UAT and integration testing • Provide out-of-hours support as required • Perform additional duties as directed by the line manager or QA manager

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent • 2 years of QA experience or equivalent • Minimum 1 year working as a full-time automation engineer for a customer-facing high-volume SaaS platform • Minimum 1 year working in an Agile development environment; Scrum or Kanban preferred • Knowledge of QA automation platforms and technologies, including CI/CD-level automation integration • Knowledge of Agile software development methodology • Knowledge of functional testing methods and techniques • Good understanding of test analysis and acceptance criteria processes • Excellent English written and verbal communication skills • Ability to meet deadlines and troubleshoot issues while handling multiple priorities • Strong problem-solving and analytical skills • Strong attention to detail • Ability to mentor and grow QA talent • Preferred knowledge of SQL and database tools, scripting languages, BDD, SOAP and REST web APIs, Selenium WebDriver, Java, and continuous integration tools such as TeamCity and Jenkins

🏖️ Benefits

• Equal employment opportunity and a workplace and recruitment process free from unlawful discrimination, harassment, and retaliation