Senior Software QA Engineer (UI)

Location: Remote, India

Department: Quality Assurance

Location Type: REMOTE

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

• Design and execute comprehensive test plans and automated suites to validate new UI features, workflows, and design changes.
• Build and maintain browser-based end-to-end automation that covers critical user workflows across supported browsers and screen sizes.
• Diagnose and harden flaky UI tests using Playwright traces, videos, and network logs.
• Develop, run, and analyze UI regression tests, ensuring functional stability, visual consistency, accessibility, and responsive performance.
• Validate the UI against the backend, confirming that what users see matches the underlying SQL query results and REST API responses, including error states, empty states, and large data sets.
• Collaborate strongly with the UI development team to add tests to nightly CI/QA infrastructure, improve existing test coverage, and improve analysis and reporting tooling.
• Partner with Product Management and UI/UX design to review requirements and Figma designs early, define acceptance criteria, and confirm the delivered UI matches design intent.
• Provide technical leadership in defining UI test strategies, frameworks, and best practices, including the right balance of component, integration, and end-to-end tests.
• Act as a subject matter expert for the UI, partnering with customer operations and development teams on user-reported issues, escalations, and validation.
• Mentor junior engineers, fostering expertise in UI test automation and quality practices.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent.
• 4-6 years of experience in QA engineering or front-end development, ideally focused on testing complex, data-intensive web applications.
• Proven experience in test planning, designing, and executing automated, reliable UI test frameworks. Playwright (Python) preferred; experience with Cypress or Selenium is also valued.
• Proficiency in TypeScript or JavaScript, with a working understanding of React and modern front-end tooling such as Vite, Vitest, React Testing Library, and Mock Service Worker.
• Strong QA and debugging skills, with the ability to trace issues across the browser, network requests, REST APIs, and backend services using browser developer tools.
• Working knowledge of SQL and relational databases, with the ability to write queries that verify the data the UI displays.
• Familiarity with data ingestion sources (S3, Kafka, HDFS).
• Experience testing accessibility (WCAG), cross-browser compatibility, and front-end performance, including rich components such as code editors, interactive charts, and large virtualized tables.
• Experience working from design tools such as Figma to validate usability and visual consistency.
• Proficiency in Python or TypeScript for test automation and tooling. Hands-on experience with JIRA, a test case management system, Git, and CI pipelines such as GitHub Actions.
• Experience using AI coding assistants (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf) to author and maintain tests, with the judgment to review generated tests for vacuous assertions and hidden flakiness.
• Familiarity with Linux, Docker, and cloud environments (AWS or GCP), including deployment and monitoring of web applications.
• Experience testing applications built on high-performance distributed systems or databases is a strong plus.
• Ability to analyze complex test results and derive meaningful insights through visualization and test data analysis. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey technical findings clearly to diverse audiences.