QE Automation - Gurugram

Strong hands-on experience with Playwright is mandatory.

Strong preference for candidates with Playwright + TypeScript experience.

Strong understanding of Playwright architecture, locators, assertions, fixtures, hooks, parallel execution, reporting, and debugging.

Experience designing and maintaining scalable Playwright automation frameworks.

Ability to implement reusable automation components and utilities.

Candidates should demonstrate strong programming and automation skills in one of the following:

Playwright + TypeScript / Java – Strong preference

Playwright + Python – Acceptable

Strong experience in:

REST API automation

API validation and functional testing

Request/response validation

Authentication and authorization scenarios

Negative and boundary testing

API integration testing

Basic understanding of contract testing

Experience with SOAP services is an advantage.

Strong hands-on experience with Git and distributed version control systems .

Expected proficiency: 10/10

Experience with branching, merging, pull requests, code reviews, conflict resolution, and maintaining automation code in shared repositories.

Experience integrating automated tests with CI/CD pipelines .

Understanding of automated test execution as part of build and deployment pipelines.

Experience analyzing failures from pipeline executions and troubleshooting automation issues.

The candidate should have a basic-to-good understanding of application security testing, including:

Basic understanding of OWASP Top 10

Common web application security vulnerabilities

Security considerations during API and UI testing

Understanding how security risks can impact quality and customer experience

Deep security expertise is not mandatory, but the candidate should be able to incorporate basic security considerations into testing.

Performance testing is a good-to-have , not a mandatory requirement.

Candidates with exposure to the following will be preferred:

Performance testing concepts and metrics

Lighthouse

Sitespeed

k6

Basic understanding of load, response time, throughput, and performance bottlenecks

Basic knowledge of AWS or other cloud platforms.

Understanding of testing applications deployed in cloud environments.

Exposure to Splunk or similar observability/logging tools for: Log analysis Debugging Production issue investigation Correlating application failures with system behaviour

Log analysis

Debugging

Production issue investigation

Correlating application failures with system behaviour

A strong customer-centric testing mindset is an important expectation for this role.

The candidate should demonstrate the ability to:

Validate real customer journeys , rather than testing only individual requirements.

Understand end-to-end business processes and user behaviour.

Think beyond written acceptance criteria and identify real-world scenarios.

Identify potential defects before they reach customers .

Think about defect prevention rather than only defect detection.

Analyze production issues and translate learnings into improved test coverage.

Identify edge cases, negative scenarios, usability concerns, and integration risks.

Ask questions such as: How will the customer use this feature? What could go wrong in the real world? What happens if the customer performs an unexpected action? What would be the business impact if this fails?

How will the customer use this feature?

What could go wrong in the real world?

What happens if the customer performs an unexpected action?

What would be the business impact if this fails?

The candidate should be able to connect technical quality with business impact and customer experience .

Strong understanding of QA/QE methodologies and software testing life cycle .

Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments .

Understanding of shift-left testing and continuous quality.

Experience with test planning, execution, defect management, and test closure.

Understanding of risk-based testing and quality assessment.

Experience with test data management.

Experience working with defect tracking and change management tools.

Exposure to distributed systems, microservices, containers, and cloud-native applications is preferred.

Candidates with the following combination will be strongly preferred:

Additional exposure to AWS, Splunk, OWASP, Performance Testing, Lighthouse, Sitespeed, or k6 will be an advantage.

The successful candidate will be expected to:

Increase automation coverage and reliability.

Build scalable and maintainable automation solutions.

Improve overall regression efficiency.

Identify defects early and contribute to defect prevention .

Improve confidence in releases through effective automation and risk-based testing.

Strengthen end-to-end customer journey coverage.

Contribute to continuous improvement of the team's Quality Engineering maturity .

Demonstrate ownership of quality from requirement through production .

5–8 years | Strong Automation Engineer | Playwright Mandatory | TypeScript Preferred | API Automation | Git | CI/CD | Customer-Centric QE Mindset

The ideal candidate is not just a test executor , but a Quality Engineer who can build automation, understand the product, identify risks, prevent defects, and improve overall customer confidence in the software.