Quantaco - Sr Quality Assurance Engineer (Automation)

Location: Hyderabad, India

Department: Quantaco Technology

Experience: 6+ yrs

• Own and continuously improve the QA and test automation strategy across the software development lifecycle.
• Define appropriate testing approaches across unit, integration, API, functional, system, regression, and end-to-end testing.
• Identify quality risks early in the development lifecycle and work with engineering and product teams to address them.
• Establish appropriate test coverage and quality standards for new features and existing functionality.
• Promote a shift-left approach to quality by engaging early in requirements, design, and development.
• Identify opportunities to improve quality through automation, tooling, process improvements, and AI-enabled testing.

• Design, develop, and maintain robust automated test suites.
• Develop reusable automation frameworks and components that can scale as the product grows.
• Develop and maintain automated tests using Cypress, where appropriate.
• Automate API, integration, functional, regression, and end-to-end testing.
• Identify manual testing activities that can be automated and prioritize automation based on risk and value.
• Ensure automated tests are reliable, maintainable, and provide meaningful feedback to engineering teams.
• Continuously improve test execution speed, reliability, and coverage.

• Design and execute comprehensive API testing strategies.
• Test RESTful APIs and integrations across internal and third-party systems.
• Work with Open API 3.0 specifications to understand API contracts and generate appropriate test scenarios.
• Validate API responses, business logic, data integrity, error handling, authentication, authorization, and edge cases.
• Identify integration risks and ensure appropriate automated coverage is established.

• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Establish automated quality gates to prevent defects from progressing through the development lifecycle.
• Ensure automated regression suites execute reliably as part of the deployment process.
• Investigate and resolve failed automated tests and distinguish between genuine defects and test/environment issues.
• Provide clear and actionable feedback to development teams through automated test results.

• Work closely with engineering and product teams to assess release readiness.
• Ensure releases meet agreed quality standards before production deployment.
• Monitor defect trends and release quality metrics.
• Ensure high-severity and regression defects are identified and addressed before
• production wherever possible.
• Participate in production incident investigations and contribute to root cause analysis.
• Identify opportunities to prevent recurring production defects through improved testing and engineering practices.

• Identify, investigate, document, and track defects through to resolution.
• Provide developers with clear reproduction steps, evidence, logs, and technical context.
• Analyze defects to identify root causes and recurring quality issues.
• Prioritize defects based on customer impact, severity, risk, and business requirements.
• Work collaboratively with engineers to ensure defects are resolved effectively.

• Work closely with software engineers, product owners, designers, and other stakeholders throughout the development lifecycle.
• Participate actively in sprint planning, refinement, stand-ups, retrospectives, and release planning.
• Review requirements and acceptance criteria and identify gaps before development begins.
• Participate in technical and code reviews where appropriate, providing feedback from a quality and testability perspective.
• Advocate for testability, observability, reliability, and quality during solution design.
• Contribute to engineering standards, QA processes, and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior and mid-level QA engineers.
• Help establish consistent testing and automation standards across the QA team.
• Share knowledge and best practices across the broader engineering team.
• Identify capability gaps and contribute to the development of QA team members.
• Take ownership of significant QA initiatives and drive them through to completion.
• Act as a senior point of reference for automation and quality engineering practices.

• Stay current with emerging QA, automation, and software engineering practices.
• Evaluate new testing tools, frameworks, and technologies.
• Identify opportunities to improve testing efficiency and reduce manual effort.
• Investigate the use of AI and automation to improve software quality and testing productivity.
• Continuously improve the reliability, maintainability, and coverage of the automated test suite.

• Takes ownership and drives work through to completion without requiring close management.
• Strong attention to detail without losing sight of the broader business and customer outcomes.
• Analytical and methodical approach to identifying risks and solving complex problems.
• Passionate about software quality and continuous improvement.
• Pragmatic approach to testing, understanding where automation provides value and where manual testing is appropriate.
• Strong communicator who can clearly explain technical issues to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Comfortable challenging requirements, designs, and assumptions when there is a quality or customer risk.
• Self-motivated and capable of working independently while contributing effectively to a distributed team.
• Collaborative, respectful, and willing to share knowledge with others.
• Curious about new technologies and constantly looking for better ways to work.
• Demonstrates integrity, accountability, and a strong commitment to delivering quality software.

• Quality Assurance
• Strong experience working across the full software development lifecycle.
• Strong understanding of software testing methodologies and quality engineering
• principles.
• Experience across:
  • Unit testing
  • Integration testing
  • API testing
  • Functional testing
  • System testing
  • Regression testing
  • End-to-end testing
  • Exploratory testing
  • Performance and reliability testing
• Strong understanding of risk-based testing and test planning.
• Experience defining test strategies and appropriate levels of test coverage.
• Strong defect investigation and root cause analysis skills.

• Strong commercial experience in test automation.
• Experience designing and maintaining scalable automated test frameworks.
• Experience with Cypress is highly desirable.
• Experience with API automation and REST API testing.
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• Understanding of test automation best practices, including maintainability, reusability, test isolation, and reliability.
• Ability to identify appropriate candidates for automation and assess automation ROI.

• Strong understanding of RESTful APIs.
• Working knowledge of Open API 3.0.
• Experience working with JSON, HTTP methods, status codes, authentication, and API contracts.
• Ability to investigate API issues using tools such as Postman, Ready API, or equivalent.
• Comfortable reading application logs and using technical information to investigate defects.
• Understanding of databases and SQL sufficient to validate data and investigate issues.

• Experience working within modern CI/CD environments.
• Understanding of Git-based development workflows.
• Experience integrating automated testing into build and deployment pipelines.
• Understanding of automated quality gates.
• Familiarity with cloud-based applications and distributed systems.
• Understanding of environments, deployments, configuration, and release management.

• Strong experience working within Agile/Scrum development methodologies.
• Experience participating in sprint planning, refinement, stand-ups, retrospectives, and release planning.
• Ability to work effectively with distributed engineering teams.
• Strong understanding of requirements, acceptance criteria, and definition of done.