Total 4 Quality Assurance / Control job vacancies in Pune, Maharashtra

MRI-Simmons is seeking an Automation Engineer with hands-on ability in designing, developing, and implementing automated tests using Playwright for our web applications. The ideal candidate will be comfortable collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure quality and reliability of all application features/functions.

• Test Automation Development: Design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts using Playwright to validate the functionality of web applications.

• Test Planning: Collaborate with QA analysts and developers to understand requirements and develop comprehensive test plans and strategies.

• Execution and Reporting: Execute automated test scripts, analyze test results, and report defects using appropriate tools and methodologies.

• Continuous Integration: Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines for continuous testing and deployment. • Test Framework Maintenance: Maintain and enhance the test automation framework to improve efficiency, reliability, and scalability.

• Code Reviews: Participate in code reviews to ensure test scripts are well-written, efficient, and follow coding best practices.

• Documentation: Create and maintain technical documentation related to test automation processes, frameworks, and scripts.

• Collaboration: Work closely with developers, QA analysts, and other stakeholders to identify testing requirements and ensure timely delivery of high-quality software.

Role Summary

Under the leadership of the Manager, we are hiring a Senior QA Specialist to support R&D objective. This role is critical to ensure high quality standards and will be responsible for variety of quality assurance tasks.

Key Responsibilities

• Actively collaborate with developers, QA Managers, product managers to shape the product and deliver product releases
• Provide feedback to the team on product quality, call out risks/issues (if any) and can balance quality with time bound delivery with a release perspective
• Maintain and write automated test suites
• Ability to work with the QA Manager to come up with a testing strategy for a given release with inputs from team, if needed.
• Ready to work on fast paced geographically distributed team doing frequent releases
• Understand the product domain

**Final designation will depend on candidate’s profile, experience, and selection outcome**

Role Purpose:

The Associate Director / Senior Manager - Quality is responsible for leading the quality control portfolio while driving studio-wide process excellence, operational efficiency, and strategic transformation initiatives.

This role also combines project management, process transformation, and operational governance to ensure high-quality delivery across multiple projects in specialized teams (TSD) & Mobile. The position partners closely with QC Leadership, Production teams, and WWQC stakeholders to standardize processes, optimize workforce utilization, improve delivery effectiveness, and embed a culture of continuous improvement and data-driven decision-making.

Key Responsibilities:

1. QC Program & Portfolio Management

• Manage a portfolio of QC projects across Specialized teams (TSD) & Mobile.
• Oversee planning, execution, and delivery of QC programs ensuring quality, schedule, and scope objectives are met.
• Supervise and guide QC Project Managers, Project Leads, and testing teams.
• Conduct periodic project reviews with QC leadership to evaluate project performance and risk.
• Monitor project KPIs and performance indicators to ensure quality and delivery effectiveness.
• Validate key project deliverables including test strategies, test plans, and automation roadmaps.

2. Strategic Leadership & Transformation

• Drive large-scale transformation initiatives aligned with studio and global QC strategies.
• Partner with QC leadership to define and execute studio-level strategic roadmaps.
• Identify opportunities to improve testing frameworks, tools, processes, and delivery models.
• Adapt QC strategies to evolving game development trends such as GAAS and live operations.
• Interface with WWQC leadership, production teams, and studio management to ensure strategic alignment.

3. Process Excellence & Continuous Improvement

• Lead process re-engineering and simplification initiatives across QC and delivery functions.
• Standardize QC and delivery workflows through defined process journeys and SOPs.
• Identify and prioritize high-impact improvement opportunities across operations.
• Apply Lean Six Sigma methodologies to improve efficiency, quality, and productivity.
• Act as a subject matter expert and mentor on process improvement frameworks.

4. Operational Effectiveness & Workforce Optimization

• Optimize resource planning and workforce allocation across QC projects.
• Anticipate future talent needs based on evolving project and business requirements.
• Partner with HR and Talent Acquisition to address skill gaps and staffing requirements.
• Promote organizational efficiency through pyramid optimization and talent development strategies.
• Support the drive of learning and development initiatives including upskilling and cross-skilling programs.

5. Governance, Metrics & Data-driven Decision Making

• Establish and maintain studio-wide governance frameworks for QC projects.
• Define and track KPIs to measure quality, operational efficiency, and delivery performance.
• Drive adoption of data analytics, dashboards, and reporting mechanisms.
• Provide actionable insights to leadership for strategic and operational decision making.

6. Stakeholder Management & Communication

• Develop communication frameworks to ensure alignment on QC strategy and project execution.
• Collaborate closely with Production, WWQC teams, and studio leadership.
• Provide regular updates and reports to executive leadership on project status and strategic initiatives.
• Facilitate cross-studio collaboration on global QC initiatives and improvement programs.

7. Change Management & Culture Building

• Lead change initiatives to implement new processes, tools, and operational models.
• Promote a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and quality excellence.
• Organize initiatives such as ideathons and improvement programs to encourage innovation.
• Drive adoption of data-driven problem solving across teams.

8. Automation & Innovation

• Support integration of automation frameworks into QC workflows.
• Collaborate with R&D and global QC teams to pilot and implement new testing technologies and methodologies.
• Continuously explore innovative approaches to improve testing effectiveness and efficiency.

9. People Leadership:

• Lead and mentor managers, leads, and testing teams.
• Provide coaching, career development, and performance management support.
• Identify and develop high-potential talent within the TSD and Mobile projects.
• Foster a collaborative, high-performance team culture.

THE POSITION:

We are looking for a Senior Technical QA Engineer with strong expertise in test automation using Python to deliver high-quality, scalable, and reliable software solutions. This role will play a key part in building robust automation frameworks, improving QA processes, and ensuring seamless product delivery in an agile environment.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Our employees are tasked with delivering excellent business results through the efforts of their teams.  These results are achieved by:

• Design, develop, and execute test strategies, test plans, and test cases for complex applications
• Build and maintain automation frameworks using Python
• Develop and execute automated test scripts for UI, API, and backend systems
• Collaborate with developers, product owners, and business analysts to ensure quality across the SDLC
• Perform functional, regression, integration, and API testing
• Identify, track, and resolve defects using tools like JIRA
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous testing
• Drive improvements in QA processes, tools, and automation coverage
• Mentor junior QA engineers and promote best practices