Job Title: Senior Automation Testing QA
Experience: 6–9 Years
Location: Hyd
Engagement Type: Full Time
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced Senior Automation Tester who combines deep test automation expertise with strong functional testing capabilities. This role requires hands-on contribution along with ownership of test strategy, mentoring team members, and driving quality engineering practices across the delivery lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable automation frameworks and strategies
- Lead automation and functional testing efforts across projects
- Review and analyze business requirements, ensuring testability and coverage
- Develop, execute, and maintain automated test scripts for UI, API, and integration layers
- Perform functional, regression, system, and exploratory testing
- Define and enforce QA standards, best practices, and processes
- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and ensure continuous quality checks
- Drive test planning, estimation, and risk identification
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Dev, BA, Product) to ensure shift-left testing
- Conduct test reviews, defect triage, and root cause analysis
- Mentor junior QA engineers and guide team on automation adoption
- Provide regular status reporting, metrics, and quality insights to stakeholders
Must-Have Skills
Automation Testing
- Strong hands-on experience with: Selenium WebDriver / Playwright / Cypress
- Proficiency in at least one programming language: Java / Python / JavaScript
- Experience with test frameworks: TestNG / JUnit / Mocha / PyTest
- Expertise in API automation: REST Assured / Karate / Postman
- Experience integrating tests with CI/CD tools: Jenkins / GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps
- Knowledge of version control systems (Git)
Functional Testing
- Strong experience in:
- Requirement analysis and test case design
- Functional, regression, integration, and UAT testing
- Deep understanding of:
- Test design techniques and QA methodologies
- Experience in validating complex business workflows and data scenarios
- Hands-on experience with defect tracking tools:
- JIRA / Azure DevOps
Good to Have
- Experience with BDD frameworks (Cucumber, SpecFlow)
- Exposure to performance testing tools (JMeter, Gatling)
- Experience in mobile automation (Appium)
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure)
- Knowledge of microservices architecture testing
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments
Soft Skills
- Strong leadership and mentoring abilities
- Excellent analytical and debugging skills
- Effective communication with technical and business stakeholders
- Proactive problem-solving and ownership mindset
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
Key Success Metrics (KPIs)
- Automation coverage and script reliability
- Reduction in regression cycle time
- Defect leakage and early defect detection rate
- Test execution efficiency and pipeline stability
- Quality of releases and stakeholder satisfaction