Why Kumaran?

We blend engineering discipline with AI innovation, helping clients modernise with confidence, automate with clarity, and scale with purpose. Our global delivery model ensures agility, responsiveness, and seamless collaboration, with clients always at the heart of every engagement. At Kumaran, we don’t just solve problems, we engineer future-ready transformations.

Job Description

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced QA Lead with strong expertise in Capital Markets and Wealth Management Technology (WMT) to support a large-scale transformation initiative focused on building enterprise data hubs and integrating them with multiple vendor systems. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience in end-to-end testing across UI, API, and database layers, along with strong automation expertise using Playwright with Python.

The candidate will be responsible for leading QA activities, defining test strategies, coordinating with offshore/onshore teams, and ensuring high-quality delivery across complex integration platforms.

Key Responsibilities

Lead QA activities for enterprise transformation and data hub integration projects.

Understand and validate end-to-end UI–API–DB workflows and system integrations.

Design and execute test strategies, test plans, and test cases for functional and integration testing.

Perform API testing, backend testing, and data validation/comparison across multiple systems.

Develop and maintain automation frameworks using Playwright with Python.

Coordinate with business analysts, developers, product owners, and vendor teams to ensure quality deliverables.

Identify defects, track resolutions, and ensure timely closure of issues.

Support SIT, regression, integration, and UAT testing activities.

Mentor offshore QA team members and provide technical guidance.

Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives.

Required Skills & Experience

7–10+ years of QA experience with at least 2+ years in a QA Lead role.

Strong domain expertise in Capital Markets and Wealth Management Technology (WMT).

Hands-on experience with UI, API, and database testing.

Strong experience in integration testing and data hub validation.

Experience with backend testing and data comparison across systems.

Automation testing experience using Playwright with Python.

Experience with API testing tools such as Postman or Swagger.

Strong SQL knowledge and ability to validate backend data.

Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.

Excellent communication, coordination, and stakeholder management skills.