Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Giant Group is seeking a highly skilled Senior QA Engineer to join our expanding team in Lahore. This permanent role offers a competitive salary range of PKR 320,000 to PKR 360,000 per month, with working hours from Monday to Friday, 10:00 am to 7:00 pm. As a Senior QA Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in establishing and leading the QA function for Giant Screening Systems, ensuring the quality, reliability, and performance of our software products. You will leverage AI-driven tools and methodologies to design, automate, and analyze tests, collaborating closely with developers, business analysts, and product owners to deliver robust, defect-free releases that enhance customer satisfaction.

Key Responsibilities

- Review business requirements to define comprehensive test scenarios and cases.
- Conduct functional, regression, integration, system, and end-to-end testing.
- Design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts using tools such as Selenium, Playwright, or Cypress.
- Continuously explore and adopt emerging AI-assisted QA tools and techniques.
- Perform API testing with Postman, Swagger/OpenAPI, or SoapUI, and validate backend databases using SQL.
- Lead integration and regression testing across multiple concurrent projects, focusing on high-risk components.
- Define acceptance criteria and scenario-based test case requirements for development tickets.
- Log, track, and verify defects using a defect management system.
- Participate actively in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.
- Collaborate with developers to identify root causes and ensure timely resolution of defects.
- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines where applicable.
- Prepare detailed test reports and maintain QA documentation.
- Continuously improve testing processes and quality standards.
- Investigate causes of non-conforming functionality or releases and provide user training for solutions.
- Utilize AI tools (e.g., Claude, Windsurf, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot) to accelerate test case creation, test data generation, SQL query writing, and automation scripting.
- Leverage AI to identify edge cases, enhance test coverage, support defect analysis, and summarize test execution results.
- Evaluate and implement AI-driven testing practices to boost efficiency and software quality.

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience as a QA engineer with hands-on expertise in test automation for complex web applications, APIs, and SQL Server databases.
- Proven experience using AI tools for test case generation, automation scripting, or defect analysis.
- Strong knowledge of Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
- Experience mentoring teams or establishing QA processes within development environments.
- Proficiency in manual testing and automation frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright, or Cypress.
- Solid API testing skills using Postman, Swagger/OpenAPI, or SoapUI.
- Good command of SQL and database validation.
- Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies and version control systems like Git or Azure DevOps.
- Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and emotional intelligence skills.
- Alignment with Giant Group’s core people values.

Preferred Qualifications and Benefits

Desirable skills include experience testing web applications, familiarity with CI/CD-integrated code review tools (e.g., CodeRabbit), strong knowledge of QA methodologies and tools, and expertise in performance or security testing. Hands-on experience with both white box and black box testing is advantageous.

Employee benefits include provident fund, health and life insurance, mental health coverage, support for role-related studies, parking facilities, referral bonuses, recreational amenities such as a cafeteria and game room, birthday leave, long-term service awards, and company events and trips.

Giant Group is committed to equal employment opportunities and encourages all qualified candidates, including those with disabilities, to apply. All appointments are subject to pre-employment checks. Early applications are encouraged as the company reserves the right to close the vacancy ahead of schedule.