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Quality Engineer

Arbor Education
🇮🇳Hybrid - Thiruvananthapuram, India₹600K–₹1M/yriJust now
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Summary

A hands-on Quality Engineer role supporting product engineering teams in delivering changes with confidence and speed through risk-based testing, automation, and shared quality ownership. The role focuses on shift-left practices, automation of critical user journeys, and scaling quality as the product evolves.

Key Responsibilities: Support teams in building quality throughout the delivery lifecycle, apply risk-based thinking to prioritize validation efforts, and contribute to automation for critical user journeys. Strengthen release readiness through improved quality signals, support defect prevention through investigation and follow-up, and enable continuous improvement within teams.
Skills & Tools: Hands-on experience with automated testing (Playwright with JavaScript preferred), working knowledge of testing pyramids, test strategies, and Agile delivery. Strong technical writing, SQL/database knowledge, collaborative communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Qualifications: Demonstrated experience building and maintaining automated UI and/or API tests with proficiency in testing frameworks and strategies. Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies and quality practices in healthy delivery environments.
Location: Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India (hybrid: 3 days on-site, flexible work environment)
Compensation: Not provided by employer. Typical compensation for this role is ₹12,00,000 – ₹18,00,000/year based on title, seniority, and location.

Job Description

As a Quality Engineer, you will be a key individual contributor helping product engineering teams deliver changes with confidence, speed and reliability. With the support of the Senior Quality Engineers you help strengthen shared quality ownership within your team by applying risk-based thinking, supporting shift-left ways of working and improving automation that protects key user journeys. You will work across multiple teams at pace, where priorities shift quickly and the cost of uncertainty is real. Youʼll help teams build shared clarity on what “goodˮ looks like, and turn ambiguity into confidence through better signals, smarter validation and stronger automation around the journeys that matter most to customers. This is a hands-on role in a growing environment, with plenty of scope to influence how quality scales as the product and platform evolve.

Roles & Responsibilities

  • Support your teams in building quality from the start, reinforcing shared ownership across the full delivery lifecycle.
  • Apply risk-based thinking to help the team focus validation on the highest-impact areas and maintain strong release confidence.
  • Support a shift-left approach by improving testability during discovery and helping engineers add earlier, higher-signal checks.
  • Contribute to automation for critical user journeys, improving coverage, maintainability and reliability over time.
  • Strengthen release readiness by improving quality signals, evidence and decision-making, ensuring outcomes are clear and accountable.
  • Improve defect prevention by supporting effective investigation, clear reproduction evidence and targeted follow-up actions.
  • Contribute to continuous improvement within the team by using insights and feedback to reduce repeat issues and strengthen ways of working.
  • Support capability growth by enabling engineers to follow agreed quality practices and automation standards.

Experience, Knowledge & Skills

  • Hands-on experience building and maintaining automated checks for UI and/or API journeys, ideally using Playwright with JavaScript.
  • Working knowledge of testing pyramids and strategies (unit, component, API and (end-to-end) and how they combine to provide meaningful confidence.
  • Confident in producing concise feature-level test strategies and risk notes that support shared ownership and clear decision-making.
  • Working knowledge of data and databases (e.g. MySQL), using queries to support validation and debugging.
  • Strong understanding of Agile delivery (Scrum or similar) and how quality practices support healthy delivery flow.
  • Clear written and spoken English, able to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Collaborative team player who contributes to discussions, supports others and actively participates in continuous improvement.

Desirable Skills

  • Experience contributing to improvements in an existing automation framework under guidance.
  • Mobile testing and performance exposure.
  • Advanced SQL capability for data setup and debugging (e.g. MySQL

We also offer:

  • Flexible work environment (3 days work from office)
  • Group Term Life Insurance paid out at 3x Annual CTC (Arbor India)
  • 32 days holiday (plus Arbor Holidays). This is made up of 25 days annual leave plus 7 extra companywide days given over Easter, Summer & Christmas
  • Work time: 9.30 am to 6 pm (8.5 hours only)
  • Compensation - 100% fixed salary disbursement and no variable component.

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