About the role
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable test automation frameworks from the ground up. - Develop automated tests across:
- API – REST Assured, Karate, pytest, or equivalent. - UI – Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or equivalent. - Database/Data – SQL-based validation of data quality and integrity.
- Build reusable automation architecture, libraries, utilities, fixtures, and reporting. - Validate data for:
- Completeness - Correctness - Consistency - Duplicates - Data integrity across systems
- Develop and execute performance and load tests using tools such as JMeter, k6, or Gatling. - Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and ensure critical failures can prevent defective releases. - Investigate automation failures, identify root causes, and work with developers to resolve defects. - Define and maintain appropriate test coverage across APIs, UI, backend services, and data pipelines. - Contribute to overall test strategy and quality engineering practices across multiple teams. - Continuously improve automation reliability, execution speed, maintainability, and coverage. - Mentor other QA engineers and promote engineering best practices within the QA team.
Required Skills & Experience
- 5+ years of professional QA/testing experience, with strong focus on automation. - Proven experience building or significantly rebuilding automation frameworks, rather than only writing tests within an existing framework. - Strong programming skills in at least one of:
- Python - Java - TypeScript
- Strong hands-on experience with API automation using technologies such as:
- REST Assured - Karate - pytest - or equivalent frameworks
- Strong experience with UI automation using:
- Playwright - Cypress - Selenium - or equivalent tools
- Strong SQL skills for automated data validation and database testing. - Practical experience with performance/load testing, using JMeter, k6, Gatling, or similar. - Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines. - Strong understanding of test automation architecture, design patterns, maintainability, and scalability. - Experience working in Agile/Scrum software development environments. - Strong debugging, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
Nice to Have
- Experience testing streaming or event-driven data pipelines. - Exposure to security testing or penetration testing. - Experience owning or contributing to test strategy across multiple engineering teams. - Experience with cloud environments and modern DevOps tooling. - Experience with Docker/Kubernetes and distributed systems. - Experience testing data-intensive or high-throughput platforms.
What We're Looking For
The ideal candidate is someone who:
- Thinks like a software engineer, not only a traditional tester. - Has personally built automation frameworks and understands the architecture behind them. - Can write clean, maintainable production-quality code. - Is comfortable testing across API, UI, database, data, and performance layers. - Understands that automation should provide reliable feedback in the CI/CD pipeline. - Can investigate failures rather than simply report them. - Takes ownership of quality and can work across multiple engineering teams.
Important
This role is automation-first.
Candidates whose experience is primarily manual testing, test-case execution, or writing tests inside an existing framework without significant framework-development experience are unlikely to be a strong fit.
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