Senior Automation QA Engineer
5+ Years | E-Commerce / Technology | Immediate Joiners Preferred
Role Overview
We are looking for a Senior Automation QA Engineer to take ownership of automation, quality engineering, and test strategy across complex web-based applications and integrations.
The role will focus on designing and building robust automation frameworks, expanding automated test coverage, validating complex business workflows, and integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.
We are looking for someone who can build and improve QA systems, rather than simply execute predefined test cases. The ideal candidate should have strong hands-on automation experience, excellent debugging skills, and the ability to work closely with developers and technical teams to improve overall product quality.
Experience in E-Commerce, B2B platforms, marketplaces, or other complex transactional applications will be preferred.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable and maintainable automation test frameworks.
- Build automated test suites for web applications, backend workflows, and APIs.
- Develop automation for complex end-to-end business workflows and integrations.
- Define and improve automation strategy, test coverage, and QA processes.
- Identify opportunities to replace repetitive manual testing with effective automation.
- Perform API testing for REST APIs and third-party integrations.
- Execute and maintain regression, smoke, sanity, integration, and end-to-end test suites.
- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and ensure reliable execution as part of the release process.
- Analyse automation failures, identify root causes, and work with developers to resolve defects.
- Collaborate closely with developers, Business Analysts, and other QA engineers throughout the development lifecycle.
- Review requirements and technical specifications to identify potential quality risks early in the development process.
- Design effective test scenarios covering functional, integration, edge-case, and failure scenarios.
- Maintain test cases, automation documentation, test reports, and QA metrics.
- Contribute to improving testability, release quality, and overall engineering practices.
- Identify application stability and performance risks and work with the technical team to address them.
- Mentor junior QA engineers and contribute to establishing best practices for automation and quality engineering.
Required Skills & Experience
- 5+ years of professional QA/testing experience, with significant hands-on experience in automation.
- Strong experience in test automation framework design and development.
- Hands-on experience with one or more modern automation frameworks/tools such as:
- Selenium WebDriver
- Playwright
- Cypress
- Appium or equivalent automation tools
- Strong programming/scripting skills in at least one of:
- Java
- JavaScript / TypeScript
- Python
- Strong experience in API automation and testing using tools/frameworks such as Postman, RestAssured, Pytest, Playwright API testing, or equivalent.
- Experience designing and maintaining end-to-end automated test suites.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD and automated test execution, using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or equivalent.
- Good understanding of Git and version-control workflows.
- Strong understanding of STLC, test design techniques, defect lifecycle, and QA processes.
- Experience with database validation/testing, preferably MySQL or similar relational databases.
- Strong debugging and root-cause analysis skills.
- Experience working closely with development teams in an Agile/Scrum environment.
- Ability to understand complex application workflows and translate them into effective automation scenarios.
Good to Have
- Experience working on E-Commerce, B2B platforms, marketplaces, SaaS products, or other complex transactional systems.
- Experience testing multi-vendor or marketplace workflows.
- Experience with cloud-based applications and environments.
- Experience with Docker and containerised test environments.
- Experience with performance/load testing using tools such as JMeter, k6, Gatling, or equivalent.
- Experience with test reporting, dashboards, and QA metrics.
- Exposure to security testing or basic understanding of application security risks.
- Experience setting up automation frameworks from scratch.
- Experience mentoring or leading other QA engineers.
What We're Looking For
We are looking for someone who:
- Has strong hands-on automation expertise, rather than primarily manual testing experience.
- Can independently design and build automation frameworks.
- Thinks beyond test-case execution and focuses on overall product quality.
- Can identify gaps in existing QA processes and proactively improve them.
- Is comfortable debugging failures across the application, API, database, and automation layers.
- Has strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Can work effectively with developers and technical stakeholders.
- Takes ownership of quality and delivery.
- Is comfortable working in a fast-paced startup environment.
- Can mentor junior QA engineers and help establish automation best practices.
Key Differentiator
We are looking for a QA engineer who can build QA systems, not just execute tests.
The successful candidate should be capable of assessing an existing QA setup, identifying automation gaps, designing the right framework/approach, and progressively building a reliable automated testing ecosystem.
Work Location: Remote
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