Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Location: Bengaluru

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Job Description Summary

Responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining scalable test automation solutions while ensuring high product quality through effective test strategy, framework development, CI/CD integration, and modern Quality Engineering practices. Demonstrates the ability to work independently, solve complex problems, estimate quality-related tasks, and drive continuous
improvements

Job Description

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics). Experience: Minimum 6 to 8 years of relevant experience. Academic Background: Computer Science or other STEM disciplines.

Technical Skills

• Good Programming experience in Type script/Java script
• Experience in UI Test Automation using Selenium, Playwright, WebDriverIO Automation and specifically writing code in Type script or Java
• Experience testing API’s, and automation with Karate/ Rest Assured/playwright
• Be skilled in core data structures and algorithms
• Experience in writing, executing and monitoring automated test suites using a variety of technologies including, but not limited to, Cucumber, Playwright, Selenium.

Essential Responsibilities

• Responsible for testing a feature and or a small feature set. Contributes to the team and works with direction from Senior Team Members or management; increasing the ability to work independently. In this role, you will:
• Break down testing problems, estimate effort, and independently deliver high-quality testing, test case creation, and automation for features and small feature sets.
• Apply SDLC principles and testing methodologies (Agile, Lean, XP, CI/CD, Continuous Testing, Scalability, and Test Design techniques) throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Design, develop, maintain, and enhance scalable UI/API automation frameworks, reusable components, utilities, and coding standards that improve automation efficiency, execution speed, and maintainability. Create, configure, and maintain automated test suites, testing tools, and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins), including quality gates, parallel execution, environment validation, and system-level integration testing.
• Write effective, maintainable, and reusable automated tests that validate critical functional requirements and remain resilient to application changes and code refactoring.
• Analyze, debug, and troubleshoot issues across applications, APIs, automation frameworks, infrastructure, and CI/CD pipelines; collaborate with development teams to resolve defects and improve build quality.
• Collaborate with Quality Leaders and cross-functional teams to create test plans, define automation strategies, establish quality metrics, dashboards, KPIs, and continuously improve quality engineering practices.
• Demonstrate expertise in application domains, core data structures, algorithms, testing tools, automation best practices, and modern Quality Engineering technologies, including AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot.
• Mentor junior QA engineers, conduct code reviews, share technical knowledge, and provide guidance on automation frameworks, best practices, and testing methodologies.
• Take ownership of deliverables, identify opportunities for process improvement and innovation, implement reusable automation solutions, and contribute to organizational quality and engineering excellence.

Desired Characteristics

• Have a solid understanding of the underlying infrastructure needed to run a large distributed web application
• Has the ability to break down problems and estimate time for development tasks
• Has the ability to make technology choices based on experience
• Demonstrates awareness about competitors and industry

Leadership

• Has the ability to take ownership of small tasks and deliver without supervision while using their discretion to seek help when necessary
• Voices opinions and presents clear rationale. Uses data or factual evidence to influence
• Recognizes collaborative behavior and participates in collaborative activities
• Learns organization vision statement and decision-making framework. Able to understand how team and personal goals/objectives contribute to the organization vision

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