Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

About Dash Technologies

The Opportunity

What You’ll Do

Manual Software Testing

• Develop, review, and maintain test cases, test scenarios, test scripts, and test data.
• Execute functional, regression, integration, system, exploratory, and user acceptance testing.
• Analyze requirements and create comprehensive test scenarios covering positive, negative, boundary, and edge cases.
• Identify, document, and track software defects through resolution using bug-tracking tools.
• Perform retesting and regression testing after defect fixes and software changes.
• Review test results and provide clear testing status and release-readiness updates.
• Validate software functionality across different environments, configurations, and supported platforms.
• Participate in release testing and ensure identified issues are appropriately addressed before release.

Requirements and Test Coverage

• Review business, functional, and technical requirements to ensure they are testable and clearly understood.
• Identify gaps, ambiguities, dependencies, and potential risks in requirements.
• Define acceptance criteria and contribute to backlog refinement.
• Maintain traceability between requirements, test cases, defects, and test results where required.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to clarify expected behavior and acceptance criteria.

Quality Assurance

• Contribute to test planning and overall QA strategy for the product.
• Maintain organized and accurate testing documentation and records.
• Ensure testing activities are performed consistently across development cycles.
• Participate in defect triage, root cause discussions, and quality reviews.
• Communicate testing progress, risks, blockers, and quality concerns to relevant stakeholders.
• Support continuous improvement of testing processes and practices.

Agile Testing

• Work closely with Agile development teams throughout the sprint lifecycle.
• Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Perform testing within development sprints rather than only at the end of the development cycle.
• Collaborate with developers to reproduce, investigate, and resolve defects.
• Ensure acceptance criteria are adequately covered before stories are considered complete.
• Support appropriate quality gates before software releases.

Test Automation — Optional

• Experience with test automation is an advantage but is not mandatory.
• Contribute to identifying suitable test cases for automation.
• Work with automation engineers or developers to improve automated test coverage.
• Basic experience with automation tools or frameworks such as Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, or similar is desirable.
• Familiarity with CI/CD-based automated testing is a plus.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with product managers and business analysts to understand requirements and expected outcomes.
• Work closely with software developers to investigate and resolve defects.
• Collaborate with other QA team members to improve test coverage and testing practices.
• Communicate testing status, defects, risks, and blockers clearly to project stakeholders.
• Participate in product demonstrations and reviews to understand new functionality.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Electronics, Biomedical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• At least 3–5 years of experience in software testing or quality assurance.
• Strong hands-on experience in manual software testing.
• Experience developing and executing test cases, test scenarios, test scripts, and test plans.
• Experience performing functional, regression, integration, system, and exploratory testing.
• Strong understanding of software testing concepts and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Experience identifying, documenting, and tracking defects using tools such as Jira or similar platforms.
• Experience working with Agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to work independently.
• Experience with test management tools such as Jira, TestRail, Zephyr, QATouch, or similar platforms.

Bonus Points

• Experience testing Medical Device Software, Healthcare Software, or MedTech products.
• Experience working on products developed from scratch.
• Experience testing web applications, mobile applications, APIs, or integrated systems.
• Basic knowledge of API testing tools such as Postman or similar.
• Basic SQL/database testing experience.
• Experience with test automation tools such as Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Appium, or similar.
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and automated test execution.
• Experience with performance, usability, compatibility, or security testing.
• Experience working in a startup or new product development environment.
• Experience with Medical IoT or connected healthcare applications.

How You Work

Skills and Competencies

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to think from an end-user perspective and identify unexpected scenarios.
• Strong defect investigation and root cause analysis skills.
• Good understanding of risk-based testing and test prioritization.
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple testing activities.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work effectively with developers, product managers, business analysts, and other stakeholders.
• Strong ownership of assigned testing activities.
• Willingness to learn new technologies, tools, and testing techniques.

Values We Seek

• Quality Mindset: Commitment to delivering reliable, high-quality software.
• Customer Focus: Ability to understand software from the user's perspective.
• Attention to Detail: Thoroughness in identifying defects and validating functionality.
• Collaboration: Effective communication and teamwork across technical and non-technical teams.
• Continuous Improvement: Interest in improving testing processes, coverage, and efficiency.

Why Join Dash

What We Offer

• A hands-on QA role supporting a Medical Device Software product from the ground up.
• The opportunity to contribute to testing strategy and quality practices for a new product line.
• Exposure to Medical IoT, artificial intelligence, and digital health initiatives.
• A collaborative team at our Ahmedabad delivery center.
• Competitive compensation, performance-based bonuses, and comprehensive benefits.
• Professional development support for training and industry certifications.
• Flexible work arrangements and a culture that values quality, innovation, and continuous improvement.