Bachelors degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
3+ years of experience in test automation, QA engineering, or release-quality engineering roles
Proficient in at least one programming/scripting language used for automation (e.g., Python, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript).
Familiarity with test automation frameworks like:
Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Appium (UI)
Familiarity with quality gates, thresholds, and blocking builds based on test metrics or static analysis tools
Understanding of release workflows, including staging and prod deployment readiness criteria
Comfortable supporting daily/weekly releases and working in fast-paced environments.
Knowledge of smoke test automation and production validation tooling is a plus
Experience defining and tracking key QA metrics such as:
Test pass/failure rates
Flaky test identification
Regression counts
Strong analytical and debugging skills can investigate failures across logs, test cases, and environments
Analyze test failures from CI runs
Correlate failures with logs, environment configs, and upstream code changes
Differentiate between infrastructure flakiness, product bugs, and test issues
Skilled at creating detailed bug reports, reproducing defects, and communicating findings with developers and product managers.
Experience working in Agile/Scrum development teams.
Excellent communication skills for collaborating with cross-functional engineering, product, and release stakeholders.
**Key Responsibilities**:
Gate software releases by enforcing test pass criteria and blocking unstable builds from progressing to staging or production




Work closely with release and DevOps teams to define automated quality gates for each environment and maintain confidence thresholds.
Analyze test failures, debug issues, and work with developers to ensure root cause resolution before allowing releases to proceed.
Continuously monitor test execution trends and improve test reliability, flakiness, and runtime performance.
Own and update test execution dashboards and alerting systems for failures or regressions.
Write and maintain clear test plans, traceability matrices, and documentation for high-impact release workflows.
Implement or recommend improvements in test data management, test environment stability, and test coverage expansion.
Participate in release go/no-go decisions, post-mortems, and root cause analyses for escaped bugs or release incidents
**About Virtusa**
Teamwork, quality of life, professional and personal development: values that Virtusa is proud to embody.
When you join us, you join a team of 27,000 people globally that cares about your growth — one that seeks to provide you with exciting projects, opportunities and work with state of the art technologies throughout your career with us.
Great minds, great potential: it all comes together at Virtusa.
We value collaboration and the team environment of our company, and seek to provide great minds with a dynamic place to nurture new ideas and foster excellence.
Virtusa was founded on principles of equal opportunity for all, and so does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law.
All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

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