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About CIBC India:
CIBC India is a technology and operations hub in Hyderabad, where you’ll be part of our highly engaged and global team, and play a central role in supporting our growth. Whether you’re driving innovation in digital banking or streamlining client onboarding, you’ll be part of a culture recognized for excellence and investment in people. At CIBC India, people and progress are at the center of what we do: you’ll develop skills, collaborate with industry leaders, and see your ideas realized in a culture that values progress and belonging. We provide cutting-edge resources, ongoing learning, and a supportive environment where people come first. If you’re ready to create meaningful change and build your future, CIBC India is where your ambition meets opportunity.
Job Description: QA Consultant
We are excited to announce an opening for Quality Engineering Consultant at CIBC India.
Please find below the details of the role and its responsibilities.
Skills Required:
- 7–9 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance.
- Prior experience in a QA Lead or Sr QA Coordinator role.
- Strong experience testing REST APIs and microservices architectures.
- Hands-on experience with gRPC services testing and testing tools such as Postman or equivalent.
- Deep knowledge of SQL and database validation techniques.
- Experience with test automation frameworks (e.g., Java, Python, or JavaScript-based).
- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
What You’ll Be Doing (Position Summary):
The QE Consultant is accountable for leading and managing quality engineering and assurance activities across API and gRPC -driven and distributed systems. This role focuses heavily on API testing, gRPC services validation, and database (SQL) verification, ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance of backend systems. You will work closely with engineering, product, and DevOps teams to design robust API and gRPC test frameworks, implement automation strategies, and mentor QA teams.
At CIBC India we enable the work environment most optimal for you to thrive in your role. Details on your work arrangement (including on-site and remote work) will be discussed at the time of your interview.
How You’ll Succeed (Responsibilities):
- Develop, publish, manage, and execute test strategies, test plans, test cases, traceability matrices, automation scripts, status reports, defect logs, and exit reports.
- Manage and lead the testing activities of a workstream, program, or multiple projects/initiatives.
- Lead a team of test analysts, including capacity management, performance management related to assigned projects/initiatives, productivity and quality of the team’s work, and required compliance.
- Build team and individual capabilities by providing development opportunities such as job shadowing, special projects, and training.
- Ensure adherence to QA/QE standards and support the implementation of new standards.
- Recognize and identify areas where policies, processes, procedures tools/methodologies need to be changed or developed or can be improved Identify and implement continuous improvements.
- Track and report QA/QE metrics and KPIs such as velocity, defect slippage, etc.
- Identify, manage, and implement remediation for any noncompliance items and deviations.
- Provide technical input and feedback on design, assess impact to testing, and find QA automation solutions based on the solution being implemented.
- Identify and implement automation, or other emerging solutions to expedite testing, improve quality, and reduce costs.
- Apply extensive knowledge of software quality assurance, quality management, and problem-solving methodologies.
Experience: 7-9 years of experience in QA/QE, 1-3 years of experience in development.
Who You Are (Skills/Qualifications):
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
- Lead end-to-end QA strategy for API and microservices-based systems.
- Design and implement test plans, test cases, and automation frameworks for REST and gRPC services.
- Validate data integrity through complex SQL queries and database testing.
- Drive test automation across functional, integration, and regression layers.
- Perform API testing using tools and custom frameworks.
- Develop and maintain gRPC testing strategies, including protobuf validation.
- Ensure performance, scalability, and reliability testing for APIs.
- Collaborate with developers to integrate testing into CI/CD pipelines.
- Mentor QA engineers and establish best practices across teams.
- Conduct root cause analysis and improve defect prevention strategies.
- Work with stakeholders to define quality metrics and reporting.
Must Have Skills:
- Coordination and leadership skills to lead workstreams, programs, or multiple projects/initiatives.
- Experience implementing QA/QE standards, including executing test strategies, test plans, and test cases.
- Strong expertise in REST API testing (request/response validation, status codes, authentication).
- Experience testing gRPC services (Protobuf schema validation, Service contract testing).
- Familiarity with tools like Postman, REST clients, or custom API frameworks.
- Expertise in API protocols and standards, including validation of request/response structures and automation of API-driven workflows.
- Experience building automated test frameworks from scratch or enhancing existing ones.
- Proficiency in at least one programming language (Java, Python, or JavaScript).
- Strong database testing skills, with solid SQL knowledge.
- Ability to debug data issues across distributed systems.
- Experience with version control systems eg, Git, GitHub Copilot, CI/CD tools, Jenkins, and a variety of API and database testing tools: Parasoft SOATest, Postman, Swagger, DBVisualizer, TOAD.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Problem-solving skills and ability to resolve operational or process issues.
- Ability to identify and implement continuous improvements in testing processes.
- Proficiency with test and variance management tools (ALM, JIRA, Confluence) and experience with Waterfall or Agile methodologies.
Good to have Skills:
- Familiarity with core banking systems and cross-platform integrations.
- UNIX/batch testing skills, including running and verifying batch jobs, reports, and data
- Loads, ETL process verification.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Understanding of observability tools (logs, tracing, monitoring.
- Experience testing event-driven systems (Kafka, messaging queues).
What CIBC India Offers:
- At CIBC India, your goals are a priority. We start with your strengths and ambitions and strive to create opportunities to tap into your potential. We aspire to give you a career that goes well beyond your compensation.
- We work to recognize you in meaningful, personalized ways including competitive fixed pay, performance-based incentive programs, a family-first benefits program, employer contributions for your retirement, attractive time off and leave offerings, wellbeing support, and Moment Makers, our social, points-based recognition program.
- Our spaces and technological toolkit will make it simple to bring together great minds to create innovative solutions that make a difference for our clients worldwide.
- We cultivate a culture where you can express your ambition through initiatives like Purpose Day, a paid day off dedicated for you to use to invest in your growth and development.
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