Senior Qa Engineer

Role & responsibilities:

Senior QA Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain robust automation frameworks using

  Selenium WebDriver

  and

  BDD (Cucumber/Gherkin)

  .
• Perform both

  manual and automated testing

  to ensure product quality across web, API, and integration layers.
• Write

  feature files with clear, business-oriented scenarios

  and maintain reusable step definitions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand requirements, define acceptance criteria, and ensure test coverage.
• Implement and maintain

  Page Object Model (POM)

  for scalable and maintainable automation.
• Build and extend

  core framework utilities

  such as wrappers, waits, retry mechanisms, and driver handling.
• Ensure

  clean code practices

  in test automation frameworks (SOLID principles, OOP concepts).
• Identify, document, and track defects, providing detailed root cause analysis.
• Mentor junior QA team members and contribute to overall process improvements.

Preferred candidate profile

Core QA Automation Skills

• Selenium WebDriver (Advanced):
• Deep knowledge of WebDriver APIs, custom waits, element handling.
• Handling synchronization issues, stale elements, and workarounds.
• 2.BDD (Cucumber/Gherkin):
• Writing business-readable feature files.
• Mapping steps correctly to ensure reusability and modularity.
• 3.Java (or framework language):
• Strong OOP concepts (inheritance, abstraction, polymorphism).
• Clean code practices with SOLID principles.
• Exception handling and custom exception creation.
• Framework & Layer-Specific Skills
• Step Definitions:
• Designing high-level steps without mixing UI locator logic.
• Ensuring modularity and reusability.
• Page Object Model (POM):
• Strong understanding of POM & Page Factory.
• Writing maintainable locators and encapsulating UI interactions.
• Handling dynamic elements and reusable components.Core
• Framework (Wrappers, Waiters, Driver handling):
• Building wrapper methods around Selenium APIs.
• Implementing custom waits, retry mechanisms, and driver utilities.
• Extending WebDriver with custom elements where needed.

Additional Skills:

• Hands-on experience with manual testing (functional, regression, smoke, UAT).
• Experience in API testing using Postman/Rest Assured.
• Strong understanding of test planning, test design, and defect management.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and integration with tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab.
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies.

Qualifications

• Bachelors or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience in QA, with at least 2+ years in automation testing.
• Proven experience in building and maintaining automation frameworks from scratch.