India Senior QA Engineer

Who are Inchcape

At Inchcape Shipping Services our vision is to create a connected world where customers can trade successfully and make informed decisions in every port everywhere. We achieve this by combining our worldwide infrastructure with local expertise through our global network of more than 250 proprietary offices and a team of over 3000 dedicated professionals. Our diverse customer base includes owners and charterers in the oil cruise container and bulk commodity sectors as well as naval government and intergovernmental organizations.

We have an ambitious growth model and a career here is certainly going to be a rewarding one that will allow you to bring your skills

& experience. We embrace change and are open to new thinking and pushing for positive change in our industry.

Main Purpose of Job

A Senior QA Engineer plays a critical role in enhancing the software development lifecycle by implementing and advancing automated testing practices. The role involves designing developing and maintaining robust test automation frameworks while ensuring high standards of software quality.

The engineer is expected to have hands-on exposure to performance testing using JMeter enabling the assessment of system scalability reliability and responsiveness.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Process & Integration

• Integrate automated test suites (Selenium Playwright) into CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps GitHub Actions TeamCity)
• Design efficient test execution strategies including parallel execution test tagging and selective runs
• Continuously improve automation frameworks execution speed and test reliability

Test Automation Development

• Design develop and maintain robust automation frameworks using:
  • Selenium WebDriver (Java/C#)
  • Playwright (JavaScript/TypeScript)
• Implement BDD frameworks using Cucumber (Gherkin syntax) for readable and reusable test scenarios
• Develop reusable components utilities and Page Object Model (POM) structures
• Perform cross-browser and cross-platform testing

API & Integration Testing

• Perform API testing using tools such as:
  • RestAssured / HTTP Client (Java/C#)
  • Playwright API testing
  • Postman / REST tools
• Validate backend services and data integration workflows

Defect Management & Debugging

• Identify analyze and troubleshoot defects across UI and API layers
• Perform root cause analysis and provide detailed defect reports with logs screenshots and traces
• Work closely with developers to resolve issues efficiently

Reporting & Analysis

• Generate test execution reports (Cucumber reports Playwright reports Allure Jmeter Plugins etc.)
• Basic understanding of monitoring tools (Grafana Dynatrace App Insights)
• Track metrics such as test coverage defect density automation ROI and execution trends
• Communicate quality insights risks and recommendations to stakeholders

Collaboration

• Work closely with Development Product and DevOps teams to ensure high-quality deliverables
• Participate in Agile ceremonies (Sprint planning stand-ups retrospectives)
• Ensure quality is embedded throughout the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)

Essential skills required:

1. Programming Language: Java javascript typescript C#

2. Test Automation Framework: Playwright Test Runner Cucumber (Gherkin) Selenium Web Driver Nunit/MSTest

3. Performance Tools: Apache Jmeter monitoring tools

4. API testing Tools: RestSharp/HTTP Client Postman/SoapUI

5. CI/CD tools: Azure DevOps GitHub Actions Jenkins TeamCity

6. Versioning control System: Git Bitbucket

7. Database technologies: SQL Postgres

Person Specification

Knowledge

• Any Professional degree in computer science
• Aability to quickly understand the business processes.
• Technical Knowledge: Java JavaScript Playwright SQL C#.NET Webservices (XML SOAP HTTP REST API) REST SHARP AWS Cloud.
• Testing tools: Zephyr XUnit Selenium Sonar Cloud Appium Postman/SoapUI/ Rest-assured
• Test Driven Development methodology
• Agile product management tools: Jira Confluence
• DevOps tools (desirable): Bitbucket/GitHub Sonar Cube Team City Selenium
• Knowledge of maritime Finance Supply chain and logistics (desirable)

Skills

• Test Automation Test Driven Development methodology C#.NET XUnit TestRail Sonar Cloud Selenium Rest Sharp Shift Left testing principles
• Hands on experience on Selenium / Playwright C# Automation frameworks.
• Effective verbal & written communication skills in English
• Software engineering skills with high tech resilience
• Agile development methodologies
• DevOps mindset and Live site first approach

Experience

• 10 years in Software testing and quality assurance and predominantly in automation testing.
• Creating and executing test plan test cases test scenarios automate testing for software products.
• Experienced at building Object Repositories within test automation environments.
• Exposure to Agile Methodologies.
• Experienced in assessing and developing the test automation framework.
• Exposure to Object Oriented programming language C#
• Prior experience with automated testing tools (Selenium);
• Experience using defect management tools. Experience in agile methodologies

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