About this role
Job Title: QA Automation Engineer
Location: Bangalore
Experience: Seasoned practitioner with deep domain expertise and a demonstrated ability to lead technical direction and mentor others (6+ years)
Job Summary
We're looking for a QA Automation Engineer who's hands-on with Playwright and passionate about quality. You'll build automation frameworks, work closely with development and product teams, and help deliver reliable, high-quality software. What You Will Do
- Build and maintain automation frameworks and scripts using Playwright and Cucumber (BDD)
- Design, execute, and maintain regression and end-to-end test suites
- Automate API tests covering functional, edge-case, and negative scenarios
- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines
- Leverage GitHub Copilot or similar AI tools to improve productivity and test coverage
- Report defects clearly and collaborate across Development, QA, and Product teams
- Contribute to automation best practices and quality initiatives
What We Are Looking For
- 6+ years of QA Automation experience
- Strong hands-on experience with Playwright
- Experience with Cucumber (BDD) and automation framework development
- Proficiency in JavaScript or TypeScript
- Strong understanding of Page Object Model (POM) and test automation design patterns
- Strong experience in REST API testing
- Familiarity with Postman/SoapUI and authentication mechanisms such as OAuth and JWT
- Experience with Git, Agile/Scrum methodologies, and CI/CD practices
- Comfortable using AI coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot
Nice to Have
- Exposure to WebdriverIO
- CI/CD tools: Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or GitHub Actions
- Test reporting tools: Allure or HTML Reports
- Exposure to performance, accessibility, or load testing tools such as JMeter or K6
- Basic SQL knowledge
- Experience working with cloud-native and microservices-based applications
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.