Weekday AI

Proactive software engineer recruitment via referrals

Quality Assurance Engineer

Performance Testing +1Confirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeHyderabad, Telangana, IndiaNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

Strong understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle and Software Testing Life Cycle.
Knowledge of risk-based and regression testing methodologies.
Experience in API-first testing environments.
Strong test documentation and traceability practices.
Experience testing OAuth 2.0, JSON Web Tokens, and secure session handling.
Strong API testing knowledge.
Understanding of rate limiting, encryption basics, and secure API design.
Experience with Selenium, Playwright, or Cypress.
Experience with JMeter or k6.
Knowledge of CI/CD pipeline integration.
Experience with enterprise-grade application performance monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Datadog, or equivalent.
Understanding of distributed tracing and service-level agreement monitoring.
Log analysis and incident response support.
At least 2 years of QA or quality engineering experience.
Proven experience working on production-grade systems.

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end QA strategy across B2B authentication systems and consumer applications.
Define testing standards, release governance, and risk-based testing frameworks.
Establish automation-first QA practices.
Create structured regression, performance, and security testing pipelines.
Collaborate with engineering and DevOps to ensure quality at every stage of the Software Development Life Cycle.
Lead QA planning, risk assessment, and production sign-offs.
Design and execute comprehensive test cases for multi-factor authentication workflows, one-time password validation flows, JSON Web Token and OAuth-based authentication, session lifecycle and token expiry, and role-based access control.
Perform API validation using Postman or REST Assured.
Validate edge cases including retry logic, rate limiting, and lockout mechanisms.
Ensure cross-device, cross-browser, and cross-environment reliability.
Design and maintain scalable automation frameworks.
Implement user-interface automation using Playwright, Selenium, or Cypress.
Build API automation pipelines.
Integrate automated test suites within continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI.
Ensure high regression coverage for critical authentication flows.
Design load testing strategies for high-volume authentication traffic.
Simulate concurrent login bursts, token generation spikes, and one-time password validation surges.
Use JMeter, k6, or Gatling for performance and load testing.
Identify system bottlenecks and optimize for scalability.
Validate system behavior under peak stress conditions.
Collaborate with DevOps to implement application performance monitoring and observability tools such as Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Datadog, or New Relic.
Monitor authentication latency, error rates, API response times, and infrastructure health.
Define service-level agreements and service-level objectives aligned with banking-grade expectations.
Implement alerting mechanisms for anomaly detection and traffic spikes.
Support distributed tracing and root cause analysis.
Conduct vulnerability validation and security testing.
Use OWASP ZAP, Burp Suite, or SonarQube for security testing.
Validate encryption, token integrity, brute-force protection, and injection prevention.
Ensure readiness for fintech and banking compliance standards.
Maintain structured defect logs and audit documentation.

Desired Qualifications

Experience in fintech, banking, SaaS, or security platforms is preferred.
Experience leading QA initiatives or mentoring team members is preferred.
Test automation, API testing, and performance testing.

Quality Assurance Engineer

Weekday AI · Hyderabad, India · Full-time · Posted 2026-10-12

Workplace: on_site

Department: Weekday's Client via platform

Description

This role is for one of the Weekday's clients

We are hiring a Quality Assurance Engineer to lead quality strategy, automation architecture, performance engineering and security validation for a digital authentication platform serving the banking sector, alongside a consumer-facing application.

This role combines technical leadership, hands-on quality engineering, enterprise observability integration and compliance readiness. You will independently translate product and business requirements into scalable QA strategies, establish automation frameworks, ensure system resilience under high authentication traffic and build audit-ready processes aligned with fintech and banking standards. This is a mission-critical role focused on reliability, security and enterprise-grade performance.

Location: Hyderabad – On-site | Employment Type: Full-Time | Experience: 2+ years | Level: Senior QA Engineer

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

1. Quality Strategy & Leadership

Own end-to-end QA strategy across B2B authentication systems and consumer applications
Define testing standards, release governance and risk-based testing frameworks
Establish automation-first QA practices
Create structured regression, performance and security testing pipelines
Collaborate with engineering and DevOps to ensure quality at every stage of the SDLC
Lead QA planning, risk assessment and production sign-offs

2. Functional & API Testing (Authentication Systems)

Design and execute comprehensive test cases for multi-factor authentication workflows, OTP validation flows, JWT / OAuth-based authentication, session lifecycle & token expiry, and role-based access control (RBAC)
Perform API validation using Postman / REST Assured
Validate edge cases including retry logic, rate limiting and lockout mechanisms
Ensure cross-device, cross-browser and cross-environment reliability

3. Automation Engineering & CI/CD Integration

Design and maintain scalable automation frameworks
Implement UI automation using Playwright / Selenium / Cypress
Build API automation pipelines
Integrate automated test suites within CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins / GitHub Actions / GitLab CI)
Ensure high regression coverage for critical authentication flows

4. Performance & Load Engineering

Design load testing strategies for high-volume authentication traffic
Simulate concurrent login bursts, token generation spikes and OTP validation surges
Use tools such as JMeter / k6 / Gatling
Identify system bottlenecks and optimise for scalability
Validate system behaviour under peak stress conditions

5. Enterprise Observability & APM Monitoring

Collaborate with DevOps to implement enterprise-grade APM and observability tools (Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Datadog, New Relic)
Monitor authentication latency, error rates, API response times and infrastructure health
Define SLAs and SLOs aligned with banking-grade expectations
Implement alerting mechanisms for anomaly detection and traffic spikes
Support distributed tracing and root cause analysis

6. Security Testing & Compliance Readiness

Conduct vulnerability validation and security testing
Use tools such as OWASP ZAP / Burp Suite / SonarQube
Validate encryption, token integrity, brute-force protection and injection prevention
Ensure readiness for fintech and banking compliance standards
Maintain structured defect logs and audit documentation

Required Technical Skills

Core QA & Testing Expertise

Strong understanding of SDLC & STLC
Risk-based and regression testing methodologies
Experience in API-first testing environments
Strong test documentation and traceability practices

Authentication & API Systems

Experience testing OAuth 2.0, JWT and secure session handling
Strong API testing knowledge
Understanding of rate limiting, encryption basics and secure API design

Automation & Performance

Experience with Selenium / Playwright / Cypress
Experience with JMeter / k6
CI/CD pipeline integration knowledge

Observability & Monitoring

Experience working with enterprise-grade APM tools (Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Datadog or equivalent)
Understanding of distributed tracing and SLA monitoring
Log analysis and incident response support

Professional Qualifications

2+ years of QA or quality engineering experience
Experience in fintech, banking, SaaS or security platforms preferred
Proven experience working on production-grade systems
Strong analytical and independent problem-solving ability
Experience leading QA initiatives or mentoring team members preferred

What We Are Looking For

Someone who treats quality as critical infrastructure, not an afterthought
Strong ownership mindset with security-first thinking
Ability to balance speed, stability and compliance
Experience working in high-trust, high-accountability environments
Passion for building enterprise-ready, audit-grade systems

Good-to-have skills

Test Automation, API Testing, Performance Testing

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About the Company

Weekday AI

Proactive software engineer recruitment via referrals

Weekday.works helps companies hire software engineers through proactive outreach and peer-recommended candidates. Its platform automates tracking, pipeline management, and provides weekly updates, while it actively identifies engineers via peer networks, reaches out, shortlists, checks references, and schedules interviews. Differentiators include peer-backed vetting instead of traditional job boards, proactive outreach, and a passive-income reference feature that monetizes referrals. The goal is to reduce the time and effort of hiring by connecting companies with pre-vetted engineers who are open to new opportunities through a network-driven approach.

Company size: 201-500
Company stage: Seed
Total funding: $2.3M
Headquarters: Bengaluru, India
Founded: 2021

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