QA Engineer Automation

• As a QA Engineer, you
• will be responsible for ensuring reliable, scalable, and high-quality software
• releases through strong testing fundamentals and hands-on experience in Web UI Testing,
• Mobile Testing, API testing, database validation, and CI/CD-based test
• execution. You will work closely with Developers, Product Owners, Business
• Analysts, and DevOps teams throughout the Software Development Life Cycle,
• taking features from requirement analysis through test design, manual and
• automated validation, defect reporting, regression automation, and release
• validation. A strong engineering mindset, programming knowledge, and the
• ability to identify issues beyond basic functional validation are expected.

Essential Functions / Deliverables

Requirement Analysis & Test Planning

• Analyze business requirements, user stories, and
• acceptance criteria, and participate in requirement grooming and sprint
• planning sessions.
• Identify functional, integration, regression,
• and edge-case scenarios, and prepare test scenarios, test cases, and test data.
• Identify potential quality risks early in the
• development lifecycle.
• Provide test effort estimates for assigned
• stories and features.

Functional & Manual Testing

• Perform functional, integration, system,
• regression, smoke, sanity, end-to-end, exploratory, and cross-browser testing.
• Validate applications against functional and
• non-functional requirements before release
• Apply test design techniques including boundary
• value analysis, equivalence partitioning, and risk-based testing.

Web & Mobile (Manual and Automation)

Testing

• Design, develop, and maintain Manual and
• automated test scripts for web as well as Mobile applications using Playwright
• (preferred), Selenium WebDriver, or Cypress
• Apply Page Object Model and reusable automation
• architecture, fixtures, assertions, explicit waits and synchronization, and
• browser contexts and sessions.
• Implement data-driven and parameterized tests,
• parallel and cross-browser execution, retry strategies, and environment
• configuration.
• Use screenshots, videos, and traces for failure
• analysis, and debug and maintain existing automation frameworks rather than
• only writing individual scripts.
• Write automation using TypeScript/JavaScript
• (preferred), Java, or Python, applying OOP fundamentals, exception handling,
• JSON manipulation, and file handling.

API Testing

• Test and automate REST APIs using Postman,
• Playwright API, REST Assured, Karate, or Newman; automation is preferred over
• manual Postman testing only.
• Validate GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE
• methods, HTTP status codes, headers, query and path parameters, and
• request/response payloads.
• Verify authentication and authorization using
• bearer tokens, JWT, and OAuth basics.
• Perform API schema validation, response
• validation, and negative API testing.

Database Testing

• Write SQL queries using SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE,
• DELETE, JOIN, GROUP BY, ORDER BY, aggregate functions, and subqueries.
• Validate data between the UI/API and backend
• databases.
• Work with relational databases such as
• PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, or Oracle.

Defect Management

• Identify, reproduce, and document software
• defects with clear reproduction steps and supporting evidence.
• Assign appropriate severity and priority, and
• collaborate with developers during defect investigation.
• Perform defect retesting and verification, and
• participate in root-cause analysis for recurring production or regression
• issues.
• Use Jira, Azure DevOps, Zephyr, Xray, or similar
• test and defect management platforms.
• Identify, reproduce, and document software
• defects with clear reproduction steps and supporting evidence.
• Assign appropriate severity and priority, and
• collaborate with developers during defect investigation.
• Perform defect retesting and verification, and
• participate in root-cause analysis for recurring production or regression
• issues.
• Use Jira, Azure DevOps, Zephyr, Xray, or similar
• test and defect management platforms.

CI/CD, Continuous Testing & Version

Control

• Trigger automated test suites from pipelines
• (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps Pipelines, GitLab CI/CD) and support
• continuous regression execution.
• Analyze pipeline failures, troubleshoot failed
• tests, and manage environment-specific configurations.
• Use Git (clone, pull, push, commit, branch,
• merge, pull/merge requests, conflict resolution) on GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket,
• or Azure Repos.

Test Reporting & Failure Analysis

• Analyze and communicate automation execution
• results using Allure, Playwright HTML, Extent, Cucumber, or Jenkins/Azure
• DevOps reports.
• Distinguish between product defects, automation
• defects, environment failures, test-data failures, and infrastructure issues.

Agile / Scrum Collaboration

• Participate in Sprint Planning, Backlog
• Refinement, Daily Stand-up, Sprint Review, Retrospective, and Defect Triage.
• Collaborate continuously with Developers,
• Product Owners, Business Analysts, and DevOps rather than treating testing as a
• separate end-of-cycle activity.

AI-Assisted Quality Engineering

• Use AI-assisted tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot,
• ChatGPT, Claude) for test generation, test-data generation, log and failure
• analysis, automation code generation, and test-case optimization.
• Review, validate, and maintain AI-generated
• tests and code using standard engineering practices.

Requirements

• Education : Bachelor's degree in
• Computer Science, Information Technology, or Engineering, or an equivalent
• technical discipline/experience

Technical/Computer Skills

Web Automation: Playwright (preferred) / Selenium / Cypress

Mobile Automation :Appium

Programming: TypeScript / JavaScript (preferred), Java, or Python

API Testing & Automation: Postman, Playwright API, REST Assured,

Karate, Newman

Database: SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle)

Version Control & CI/CD: Git; Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps,

GitLab CI/CD

• Defect & Test Management: Jira, Azure DevOps, Zephyr, Xray
• Testing: Functional, Regression, Integration, End-to-End
• Architecture: Page Object Model / reusable framework design; BDD with
• Cucumber/Gherkin where required
• Programming: TypeScript / JavaScript (preferred), Java, or Python
• API Testing & Automation: Postman, Playwright API, REST Assured,

Karate, Newman

Database: SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle)

Version Control & CI/CD: Git; Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps,

GitLab CI/CD

• Defect & Test Management: Jira, Azure DevOps, Zephyr, Xray
• Testing: Functional, Regression, Integration, End-to-End
• Architecture: Page Object Model / reusable framework design; BDD with
• Cucumber/Gherkin where required

Other Requirements

• Strong analytical ability and logical, structured problem-solving
• Attention to detail and strong debugging skills
• Good written and verbal communication
• Ownership of assigned features and ability to work independently
• Ability to collaborate across engineering teams
• Curiosity toward new technologies and a quality-focused engineering
• mindset

Preferred Education

• Bachelors/Master of Computer Applications (BCA/MCA) or
• Bachelors/Master’s in Computer Science
• Bachelor’s in Engineering (BE/BTech) in Computer
• Science, IT, or Electronics – preferred degrees within the required
• qualification section.

Preferred Experience and

Type

• Mobile testing exposure: Appium, Android, iOS,
• BrowserStack, Sauce Labs, device farms
• Performance testing basics: JMeter, k6, Gatling
• (response time, throughput, concurrent users, load and stress testing)
• Cloud and containerization awareness: AWS, Azure, GCP;

Docker, Kubernetes

• Microservices understanding: service-to-service
• communication, distributed systems, logs and troubleshooting
• Security testing awareness: authentication,
• authorization, OAuth, JWT, OWASP fundamentals, API security
• Note: good-to-have skills are advantageous but not
• mandatory for this role

Knowledge, Skills &

Abilities

• Core QA knowledge: SDLC, STLC, defect life cycle, test strategy and
• planning, test case design, regression strategy, test coverage, root-cause
• analysis, shift-left and continuous testing
• Preferred modern stack: TypeScript, Playwright, Playwright API/REST
• Assured/Karate, SQL/PostgreSQL, Git with GitHub/Azure Repos, GitHub
• Actions/Azure DevOps/Jenkins, Allure and Playwright HTML reports, Jira with
• Zephyr/Xray or Azure DevOps
• Success measure: independently take a feature from requirement analysis,
• test scenario design, manual/exploratory validation, UI/API automation, and
• database validation through defect reporting, regression automation, CI/CD
• execution, failure analysis, and release validation
• The expectation is not merely to execute test cases, but to actively
• contribute to building quality throughout the software development lifecycle
• Certifications (Preferred) : ISTQB Foundation
• Level, Playwright/Selenium, or relevant test automation certifications

(preferred)

• Required Professional Experience : 3 to 6 years of relevant software testing / quality engineering experience, ideally
• including 3+ years of hands-on automation across web, API, and database
• validation in Agile projects with CI/CD exposure