Job Overview
Role: Associate Software Quality Engineer Location: Chennai, India Experience: Entry Level Key Skills: Software testing, quality assurance, problem-solving, defect management, collaboration, SDLC
Job Description
UPS Recruitment 2026 is hiring for the Associate Software Quality Engineer position in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The role is part of the Information Technology function and is a full-time, permanent opportunity. The Software Quality Engineer will support Information Services quality assurance processes, identify problems, evaluate possible solutions and execute software testing activities. The position involves collaboration with QA teams, application developers, software vendors, consultants, users and technical support teams. The role is suitable for candidates interested in building a career in software quality assurance, testing and IT quality engineering.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Quality Assurance: Execute Information Services Quality Assurance processes with moderate guidance.
- Problem Identification: Identify software problems and analyze potential solutions.
- Solution Recommendation: Generate alternatives and recommend solutions within defined processes.
- Documentation: Document progress and status of assigned QA tasks.
- Collaboration: Collaborate with QA team members during testing activities; Work with application developers to identify and resolve software quality issues; Coordinate with software vendors, consultants and user communities when required; Work with test-environment technical support staff.
- Testing: Execute testing procedures for applications and systems; Support testing efforts involving small to medium complexity.
- Business Knowledge: Develop knowledge of important business processes and technology relevant to supported functions.
Skills and Eligibility Criteria
Experience: The supplied job description does not specify a particular degree, experience range or fresher eligibility requirement.
Mandatory Technical Skills:
- Software testing fundamentals
- Test case and test scenario design
- Functional testing
- Regression testing
- Defect identification and reporting
- Test execution and result documentation
- Root-cause analysis
- Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
- Basic database and SQL concepts
- Basic understanding of test environments
Competencies:
- Strong communication and collaboration skills (able to communicate testing observations clearly, document defects accurately, explain technical problems to different stakeholders)
- Problem-solving (identify problems, generate possible alternatives, recommend solutions)
- Documentation (accurate test reports, execution summaries, defect documentation, task status updates)