Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

✅ Senior QA Engineer (SQE)

📍 Experience Range: 4–6 years

🧑‍💼 Reports To: Lead QA Engineer / QA Manager / CTO

🔍 Role Overview:

As a Senior QA Engineer, you are expected to take end-to-end ownership of the QA lifecycle for your assigned modules or projects. This includes test planning, execution, automation, defect management, and continuous process improvement. You'll play a key role in ensuring product stability, identifying risk areas early, and mentoring junior QA engineers in best practices.

🔑 Key Responsibilities:📋 Test Planning & Execution

• Translate product requirements and user stories into detailed and executable test cases (manual + automated).
• Own the full testing lifecycle for your modules — from test design to test execution across functional, integration, and regression testing.
• Identify edge cases, maintain traceability with acceptance criteria, and ensure 95%+ test case execution rate.

🤖 Automation Development & CI/CD Integration

• Build, maintain, and optimize automation test scripts using Selenium, Cypress, and Postman.
• Integrate automation suites into CI/CD pipelines to ensure continuous regression coverage.
• Drive automation reliability to >90% by proactively identifying and resolving flaky tests or environment issues.

🐞 Defect Tracking & Root Cause Analysis

• Log high-quality, reproducible bugs with detailed steps, screenshots, and logs using tools like JIRA.
• Lead defect triage meetings to ensure critical issues are prioritized correctly and resolved swiftly.
• Work closely with developers to debug complex issues and minimize defect leakage.

📈 Quality Visibility & Documentation

• Maintain clear and concise QA reports including test coverage, bug trends, and release readiness.
• Own QA sign-off for features/releases and contribute to documentation like QA SOPs, reusable test cases, and guidelines.
• Keep the QA Wiki updated for cross-functional visibility and knowledge sharing.

👥 Mentoring & Process Improvement

• Support onboarding and skill development of Junior QAs (QE, AQE) by reviewing test cases, sharing tools, and resolving blockers.
• Recommend tools, plugins, or frameworks to improve speed, accuracy, and maintainability of testing.
• Participate in retrospectives and suggest actionable process enhancements.

🎯 Ideal Candidate Traits:

• Strong experience in automated and manual testing, with a deep understanding of STLC and agile workflows.
• Experience integrating QA with CI/CD in fast-paced product environments.
• Detail-oriented mindset with a knack for catching edge-case bugs early.
• Collaborative communicator — works seamlessly with developers, PMs, and QAs.
• Self-driven and able to mentor junior engineers without supervision.