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.