Senior Software QA Automation Engineer - API, UI, Performance & CI/CD

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable test automation frameworks from the ground up.
• Develop automated tests across:
• API – REST Assured, Karate, pytest, or equivalent.
• UI – Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or equivalent.
• Database/Data – SQL-based validation of data quality and integrity.
• Build reusable automation architecture, libraries, utilities, fixtures, and reporting.
• Validate data for:
• Completeness
• Correctness
• Consistency
• Duplicates
• Data integrity across systems
• Develop and execute performance and load tests using tools such as JMeter, k6, or Gatling.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and ensure critical failures can prevent defective releases.
• Investigate automation failures, identify root causes, and work with developers to resolve defects.
• Define and maintain appropriate test coverage across APIs, UI, backend services, and data pipelines.
• Contribute to overall test strategy and quality engineering practices across multiple teams.
• Continuously improve automation reliability, execution speed, maintainability, and coverage.
• Mentor other QA engineers and promote engineering best practices within the QA team.

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of professional QA/testing experience, with strong focus on automation.
• Proven experience building or significantly rebuilding automation frameworks, rather than only writing tests within an existing framework.
• Strong programming skills in at least one of:
• Python
• Java
• TypeScript
• Strong hands-on experience with API automation using technologies such as:
• REST Assured
• Karate
• pytest
• or equivalent frameworks
• Strong experience with UI automation using:
• Playwright
• Cypress
• Selenium
• or equivalent tools
• Strong SQL skills for automated data validation and database testing.
• Practical experience with performance/load testing, using JMeter, k6, Gatling, or similar.
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of test automation architecture, design patterns, maintainability, and scalability.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum software development environments.
• Strong debugging, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

Nice to Have

• Experience testing streaming or event-driven data pipelines.
• Exposure to security testing or penetration testing.
• Experience owning or contributing to test strategy across multiple engineering teams.
• Experience with cloud environments and modern DevOps tooling.
• Experience with Docker/Kubernetes and distributed systems.
• Experience testing data-intensive or high-throughput platforms.

What We're Looking For

The ideal candidate is someone who:

• Thinks like a software engineer, not only a traditional tester.
• Has personally built automation frameworks and understands the architecture behind them.
• Can write clean, maintainable production-quality code.
• Is comfortable testing across API, UI, database, data, and performance layers.
• Understands that automation should provide reliable feedback in the CI/CD pipeline.
• Can investigate failures rather than simply report them.
• Takes ownership of quality and can work across multiple engineering teams.

Important

This role is automation-first.

Candidates whose experience is primarily manual testing, test-case execution, or writing tests inside an existing framework without significant framework-development experience are unlikely to be a strong fit.