Quality Engineer (Tester)
Accenture
2 - 5 years
Pune
Posted: 25/02/2026
Job Description
Project Role Description : Enables full stack solutions through multi-disciplinary team planning and ecosystem integration to accelerate delivery and drive quality across the application lifecycle. Performs continuous testing for security, API, and regression suite. Creates automation strategy, automated scripts and supports data and environment configuration. Participates in code reviews, monitors, and reports defects to support continuous improvement activities for the end-to-end testing process.
Must have skills : Data Warehouse ETL Testing, Java, Python (Programming Language)
Good to have skills : NA
Minimum 5 year(s) of experience is required
Educational Qualification : 15 years full time education
Summary
As a Custom Software Engineer (Python Tester), you will implement, and maintain automated tests to ensure quality, reliability, and performance of applications built on Python. You will collaborate with cross functional teams to translate requirements into robust test strategies, apply Agile practices, and deliver scalable, high performing solutions. You will drive quality through test automation, CI/CD integration, and continuous improvement, while troubleshooting defects and enhancing overall engineering efficiency.
Roles & Responsibilities
Work independently and evolve into an SME for Python test automation and quality practices.
Actively contribute in design/review discussions influence testability and shift left quality.
Analyze requirements/user stories and derive test plans, test cases, and acceptance criteria.
Build and maintain automated tests (unit/integration/API/UI) using Python frameworks.
Implement best practices for coding standards, maintainability, and test design patterns (fixtures, parametrization, page objects, mocking).
Troubleshoot and debug failures isolate root cause across code, data, and environment.
Integrate automated tests with CI/CD pipelines ensure reliable, deterministic builds.
Track and report quality metrics (coverage, defect density, flakiness, build health) drive continuous improvement.
Collaborate with developers, Product Owners, and DevOps to remove impediments and ensure high quality increments.
Document test scenarios, environments, and repro steps support UAT and production validations as needed.
Professional & Technical Skills
Must Have skills
Proficiency in Python and testing frameworks: pytest (preferred) and/or unit test.
Strong grasp of Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban), story/acceptance criteria, and Definition of Done.
Experience with API testing (e.g., requests, pytest plugins, Postman/Insomnia) and contract testing (e.g., Pact, schema validation).
Solid knowledge of test automation patterns (fixtures, mocking with unittest.mock/pytest-mock, parametrization), assertions, and test data management.
Familiarity with version control (Git) and CI/CD systems (Azure DevOps/GitHub/Jenkins).
Ability to troubleshoot/debug failures and analyze logs, stack traces, and pipeline output.
Good to Have skills
UI test automation (Playwright/Selenium) and/or BDD (pytest bdd/Behave).
Test coverage tools (coverage.py), static analysis/linters (flake8/pylint), formatting (black/isort).
Containerized testing (Docker), environment management (venv/poetry).
Database testing (SQL basics), test data seeding/fixtures.
Performance testing basics (Locust/JMeter) and security testing awareness (OWASP top 10).
Exposure to cloud CI runners and artifacts familiarity with feature flags and blue green/canary validations.
API/UI: requests, Playwright/Selenium, Postman
Quality: coverage.py, flake8/pylint, black/isort
DevOps: Git, Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions/Jenkins, Docker
Observability: Logging, Allure/HTML reports, junit XML for CI
15 years full time education
About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.Visit us at www.accenture.com
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