Senior Automation Engineer

Senior QA Engineer – Automation

This role is responsible for the quality review of various applications and includes creating test

strategies, test plans, and test cases in collaboration with developers, business analysts, and project managers. You will work closely with the team to analyze and test software, with a focus on verifying quality and ensuring conformance to system requirements. The role primarily relies on test automation tools, while also requiring hands-on collaboration across teams.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for test planning, test automation, test environment setup/teardown, exploratory testing, defect logging, and verification

• Design and execute automation and performance tests, including testing of client implementations using automated scripts

• Create, maintain, and continuously improve automation frameworks and tools

• Collaborate with cross-functional team members to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve software issues

• Oversee and ensure effective execution of functional, regression, and acceptance testing

• Review and adapt test strategies to reflect new requirements, shifting risks, and project priorities

• Provide direction for the QA function by assisting management in setting quality goals and

aligning with organizational standards

• Mentor and support junior QA staff in task delegation, decision-making, and professional growth

• Document and maintain test artifacts to ensure quality compliance and alignment with delivery timelines

• Take ownership of individual tasks, proactively manage risks, and ensure timely delivery

• Evaluate and recommend new testing tools and technologies to improve test efficiency and

coverage

• Define and enforce QA best practices across teams and ensure adherence to process standards

The ideal candidate for the position should have the following qualifications' and skills:

Technical Qualifications:

• Experience testing various applications, services and user interfaces by preparing test strategies, test cases and test scripts and other documentation in both, automated and manual testing for functional, system, integration and regression testing

• Experience in performance testing, preferably using tools such as JMeter and others

• Experience in executing SQL queries manually for back-end / migration testing with large

databases in all environments

• Experience working with Selenium IDE, Test-Complete, QTP, Performance and Web Service

testing tool - JMeter, Soap UI and any other tool etc

• Understanding of shell programming, PowerShell, Batch commands

• Knowledge of NAnt and Ant tool

• Understanding MS Test, NUnit, Junit, TestNG, Karma, Protractor, Jasmine, Chai, Mocha, PHPUnit or any other Unit testing framework

• Understanding of test-driven development

• Understanding of software development lifecycle and best practices

• Understanding of agile and waterfall processes

• Knowledge of software quality assurance best practices and methodologies

• Familiarity with various defect management systems

Education and Work Experience:

• The candidate should have over 5 years of relevant experience or an equivalent combination

of education and experience

• Background in CS, IT or related scientific discipline