Senior Associate - Test Automation

Department: IT

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Viman Nagar – Pune, Maharashtra, Pune, Hybrid

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, and evolution of test automation frameworks across multiple products and services. 
• Define and maintain automation standards, patterns, and best practices across the SDLC. 
• Evaluate, recommend, and introduce new automation tools and frameworks to improve coverage and efficiency. 
• Drive the adoption of TDD, automation-first approaches, and quality engineering practices across teams.

Tooling, Technology & CI/CD Integration

• Cypress Cloud and Selenium WebDriver for E2E testing.
• Cucumber and Reqnroll for BDD practices.
• Jest for unit and component testing (desirable).
• K6 or JMeter for performance testing (desirable).
• Manage and execute cross-browser testing using BrowserStack.
• Work within a Monorepo architecture to deliver efficient, scalable test orchestration. 
• Ensure seamless continuous testing through GitHub and DevOps CI/CD pipelines.

Testing & Quality Assurance

• Develop, execute, and maintain automated tests across functional, regression, integration, performance, and non-functional categories. 
• Validate outputs, behaviours, and workflows to ensure products meet the highest quality standards. Perform root cause analysis for defects and collaborate with development teams to prevent recurrence. 
• Ensure high automation coverage and promote continuous quality improvement.

Collaboration & Continuous Improvement

• Partner with Senior Developers, Product Owners, DevOps Engineers, and Architects to influence design decisions through a quality lens. 
• Coach engineers and product team members on best practices for automation and modern testing methods. 
• Contribute to improving development workflows, testing approaches, and engineering processes. 
• Share knowledge, lead technical discussions, and help onboard new team members.

Stakeholder Engagement & Delivery Support

• Act as a subject-matter expert for test automation across product teams.
• Work closely with product and business stakeholders to support delivery timelines and quality outcomes.
• Provide clear communication on testing progress, risks, and issues.
• Support occasional out-of-hours releases or business‑critical delivery activities as required.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Proven experience in test automation and QA engineering roles. 
• Strong expertise in: 
  • Cypress Cloud, Selenium WebDriver
  • Cucumber, Reqnroll
  • BrowserStack
  • GitHub and CI/CD automation
  • Monorepo structures and test orchestration
• Strong understanding of test automation strategies, frameworks, methodologies, and patterns. 
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines. 
• Ability to collaborate confidently with engineers, analysts, and product teams. 
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, with a quality-first mindset. 
• Clear communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts simply. 
• Demonstrated ability to deliver high‑quality automated test scripts and frameworks. 
• Experience in Agile Scrum delivery environments.