Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Job Description Summary

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a STEM discipline is required.
• A minimum of 6 to 8 years of relevant experience is required.
• Academic background should be in computer science or another STEM discipline.

Technical Skills

• Good programming experience with TypeScript or JavaScript.
• Experience with UI test automation using Selenium, Playwright, or WebDriverIO, including TypeScript or Java coding.
• Experience testing APIs and automating them with Karate, Rest Assured, or Playwright.
• Strong knowledge of core data structures and algorithms.
• Experience writing, executing, and monitoring automated test suites with tools including Cucumber, Playwright, and Selenium.

Essential Responsibilities

• Break down testing problems, estimate effort, and independently deliver testing, test cases, and automation for features or small feature sets.
• Apply SDLC principles and methodologies including Agile, Lean, XP, CI/CD, continuous testing, scalability, and test design.
• Design, develop, maintain, and enhance scalable UI and API automation frameworks, reusable components, utilities, and coding standards.
• Create and maintain automated test suites, testing tools, and CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins, including quality gates, parallel execution, environment validation, and system-level integration testing.
• Write maintainable and reusable automated tests that remain resilient to application changes and code refactoring.
• Analyze and troubleshoot issues across applications, APIs, automation frameworks, infrastructure, and CI/CD pipelines, and collaborate on defect resolution.
• Create test plans, define automation strategies, establish quality metrics, dashboards, and KPIs, and improve quality engineering practices.
• Apply expertise in application domains, data structures, algorithms, testing tools, automation practices, and quality engineering technologies.
• Mentor junior QA engineers, conduct code reviews, and provide guidance on automation frameworks and testing methodologies.
• Take ownership of deliverables, implement reusable automation solutions, and contribute to process improvement and engineering excellence.

Desired Characteristics

• Understand the infrastructure needed to run a large distributed web application.
• Break down problems and estimate time for development tasks.
• Make technology choices based on experience.
• Demonstrate awareness of competitors and the industry.

Leadership

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