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– PMO + QA Analyst
Role: PMO + QA Analyst
Experience: 1–3 Years
Location: Bengaluru
Employment Type: Full-time
About the Role
We are looking for a PMO + QA Analyst who can work across Project Management and Quality Assurance functions. The role requires a combination of QA execution, project coordination, release management, stakeholder coordination, reporting, and quality governance.
The candidate will work closely with Product, Engineering, QA, and Business teams to ensure features and projects are delivered on time and with the expected quality.
The ideal candidate should be comfortable managing multiple workstreams, tracking project progress, identifying risks and dependencies, coordinating with stakeholders, and independently driving QA activities for assigned features/releases.
Key ResponsibilitiesPMO & Project Management
- Track project, sprint, feature, and release timelines.
- Maintain project trackers, sprint trackers, dashboards, and action-item trackers.
- Monitor progress against planned timelines and highlight deviations.
- Track risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies, and blockers (RAID).
- Coordinate with Product, Engineering, QA, and other stakeholders to ensure timely completion of activities.
- Follow up on pending tasks and ensure closure of action items.
- Coordinate sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, release discussions, and project meetings.
- Track feature readiness across different stages of the SDLC.
- Monitor dependencies between Product, Development, QA, vendors, and other teams.
- Prepare and circulate regular project/sprint status reports.
- Escalate risks, blockers, and timeline concerns to relevant stakeholders.
- Support planning and tracking of multiple projects/releases simultaneously.
QA & Quality Assurance
- Review PRDs, user stories, functional requirements, and acceptance criteria.
- Identify requirement gaps, ambiguities, edge cases, and dependencies before development/testing.
- Prepare and review test scenarios and detailed test cases.
- Execute and coordinate functional, regression, smoke, sanity, integration, and end-to-end testing.
- Perform API testing using tools such as Postman.
- Validate UI, API responses, business rules, validations, and end-to-end workflows.
- Log detailed defects in JIRA with clear steps to reproduce, expected vs actual results, severity, and supporting evidence.
- Track defects through the complete lifecycle and coordinate with Development/Product teams for resolution.
- Perform defect retesting and regression after fixes.
- Validate fixes across relevant environments.
- Monitor QA progress and identify testing risks or gaps.
- Maintain QA metrics such as test execution status, defect status, open blockers, and release readiness.
- Support production issue investigation and RCA activities.
- Ensure adequate regression coverage before releases.
Release & Production Readiness
- Coordinate QA activities for planned releases.
- Track feature readiness across Development, UAT, Pre-Production, and Production environments.
- Ensure required QA activities and documentation are completed before release.
- Track test execution, open defects, blockers, and pending dependencies before release.
- Coordinate QA sign-off/release readiness with relevant stakeholders.
- Support production deployment validation and post-release verification.
- Track production issues and ensure appropriate RCA and closure.
- Maintain release documentation, test reports, and sign-off records.
Quality & Process Improvement
- Identify gaps in existing QA and project execution processes.
- Recommend improvements to testing, tracking, documentation, and release processes.
- Ensure standard QA and PMO processes are followed across projects.
- Identify recurring defects, process gaps, and quality risks.
- Contribute to improving test coverage and release quality.
- Help establish and maintain project and QA metrics.
- Support implementation of quality gates and production-readiness checks.
Required Skills
- 1–3 years of experience in QA, PMO, Project Coordination, or a combination of these.
- Strong understanding of SDLC, STLC, Agile/Scrum, and software delivery lifecycle.
- Hands-on experience with functional and regression testing.
- Experience in API testing using Postman or similar tools.
- Good knowledge of JIRA and project/task tracking.
- Strong knowledge of Excel / Google Sheets and reporting.
- Good understanding of defect lifecycle and release management.
- Ability to review requirements and identify gaps.
- Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.
- Ability to manage multiple projects, features, and priorities simultaneously.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent documentation and follow-up skills.
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- Knowledge of SQL/MongoDB.
- Experience with automation tools such as Selenium, TestNG, Karate, or REST Assured.
- Basic understanding of performance/load testing.
- Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins.
- Experience with monitoring/logging tools such as Kibana.
- Experience working with API-driven products.
- Experience in FinTech, Banking, SaaS, or enterprise technology products.
- Understanding of production-readiness and release-governance processes.
Key Competencies
- Ownership: Takes responsibility for assigned features, releases, and deliverables.
- Coordination: Effectively works with Product, Development, QA, and Business teams.
- Attention to Detail: Identifies requirement, testing, and process gaps.
- Communication: Clearly communicates progress, risks, blockers, and dependencies.
- Problem Solving: Investigates issues and drives them toward resolution.
- Planning: Can prioritize and manage multiple activities simultaneously.
- Quality Mindset: Focuses on preventing issues rather than only identifying defects.
- Execution: Ensures planned activities are tracked through completion.
Success in This Role
The person should be able to independently:
- Drive QA activities for assigned features/releases.
- Maintain accurate project and QA trackers.
- Identify and escalate risks, blockers, and dependencies.
- Coordinate effectively with Product, Engineering, QA, and other stakeholders.
- Ensure testing and release activities are completed on schedule.
- Provide clear visibility into project status, quality status, and release readiness.
- Contribute to improving the overall QA and project execution process.
Skills
SQLExcelGoogle SheetsMongoDBJenkinsCI/CDJiraSeleniumPostmanAPI TestingQAQuality AssuranceProcess ImprovementProject ManagementAgileIf a job posting appears fraudulent, asks for payment, contains misleading information, or violates our guidelines, please report it immediately. Our team will review it promptly, Jobaaj does not charge any fee from the applicants.
Important dates & deadlines?
Application Deadline
16 Nov 26, 03:19 PM IST
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