Job Overview
Role: Associate Software Quality Engineer Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu Experience: 0+ Qualification: (Not specified, review official UPS application) Key Skills: Software Testing, Quality Assurance, Defect Management, Root-Cause Analysis, SDLC, SQL, Test Environments
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
- QA Process Execution: Execute Information Services Quality Assurance processes with moderate guidance.
- Problem Identification & Analysis: Identify software problems and analyze potential solutions.
- Solution Recommendation: Generate alternatives and recommend solutions within defined processes.
- Progress Documentation: Document progress and status of assigned QA tasks.
- Team Collaboration: Collaborate with QA team members during testing activities.
- Developer Coordination: Work with application developers to identify and resolve software quality issues.
- External Coordination: Coordinate with software vendors, consultants and user communities when required.
- Support Staff Interaction: Work with test-environment technical support staff.
- Testing Execution: Execute testing procedures for applications and systems.
- Effort Support: Support testing efforts involving small to medium complexity.
- Business Process Knowledge: Develop knowledge of important business processes and technology relevant to supported functions.
Skills and Eligibility Criteria
Educational Background: (Not specified, review official UPS application)
Experience: (Not specified, review official UPS application)
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:
- Ability to identify problems, generate possible alternatives and recommend appropriate solutions within established processes.
- Strong communication skills to explain testing observations clearly, document defects accurately and explain technical problems to different stakeholders.