Functional Tester (QA)-Senior Associate

The Opportunity
Join our Acceleration Center India and help shape the future of business for our diverse client portfolio across geographies and jurisdictions. You’ll work at the heart of global teams across Advisory, Assurance, Tax and Business Services—solving real client challenges through connected collaboration. We’ll help you grow your skills so you can go further. With hands-on learning, cutting-edge tools and an inclusive culture, this is your opportunity to do inspiring work that makes a difference—every day.
As a Functional Tester (QA)-Senior Associate you will focus on validating software functionality, identifying defects, and supporting control testing activities within our Risk and Compliance practice. As a Senior Associate you will analyze complex issues, manage assigned workstreams, build client connections, and mentor junior team members while using critical thinking to break down testing results and interpret feedback into practical recommendations. In this role at PwC, you will contribute to regulatory risk compliance services, use testing tools and methods to assess application behavior, and help confirm that deliverables align with project objectives and professional standards.
Responsibilities
Testing functional requirements and validating business processes across client service engagements
Developing test scenarios, test scripts, and test data to support system and process testing
Executing manual and automated testing activities and documenting defects with clear reproduction steps
Analyzing application behavior, identifying root causes, and interpreting results to inform remediation
Coordinating testing milestones, dependencies, and status updates across assigned workstreams
Reviewing deliverables from junior team members and providing guidance on testing methods and documentation
Collaborating with client stakeholders to clarify requirements, address issues, and support release readiness
Applying regulatory risk and controls knowledge to confirm systems align with compliance requirements
Ability to actively participate in reviews of User Stories (functional and technical) in order to identify and help bridge gaps in requirements - particularly around use-cases and workflows (including considerations such as happy path, alternate paths, user-error, system-error workflows, etc.).
Working closely with the Business and QA leads to obtain a thorough understanding of the application and the business being supported by the application
Working closely with Interactions Hub Developers / Solution Architect / Technical Lead to understand the technical approach, technical specifications, and non-functional requirements that are integral to the software application
What You Must Have
At least a Bachelor's degree
At least 4- 8 years of experience
Oral and written proficiency in English required
Minimum of 4 years of experience in functional quality assurance and software testing, including ownership of test planning, execution, defect management, and stakeholder communication. Ability to organize and lead test-set peer reviews, test plan reviews, and test execution, while providing guidance and coaching to junior QA team members.
Certification(s) Preferred: ISTQB
Added advantage- Hands-on experience with test automation, performance testing, and API testing, including the use of appropriate tools, frameworks, and scripting approaches.
What Sets You Apart
Learning functional testing methods across client-facing engagements
Building familiarity with risk and compliance managed services
Using critical thinking to break down complex concepts
Interpreting data to inform testing insights and recommendations
Responding to diverse perspectives with active listening and empathy
Developing self-awareness through feedback and reflection
Ability to author Agile Test Plans and Requirements Traceability Matrices to ensure testing depth (i.e., number of test cases) and breadth (i.e., types of test cases) are commensurate with the number of story points/ complexity and effort intensiveness of the functionalities being developed and tested.
Ability to collaborate with the Interactions Hub Business and Development teams to ensure accuracy in level of effort estimation of user stories (e.g., via creation of standardized and/or specific QA tasks to justify QA level of effort estimations).
Experience testing workflow applications built on the Appian platform is preferred but not required.

Work arrangement
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