QA Automation Engineer

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QA Automation Engineer

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Level: 30
Location: Dentsu India
Team: Digital Product Pipes

The QA Automation Engineer sits within the Digital Product team responsible for building Pipes Dentsus global advertising QA product used across markets to ensure media accuracy and operational excellence.

This role will focus on improving expanding and maintaining automated test coverage across the Pipes platform. The QA Automation Engineer will work across three engineering squads partnering with developers and product managers to ensure we deliver stable highquality functionality at speed.

This is a technical automation role not a manual QA / test analyst position. The engineer will be responsible for writing automated tests maintaining our testing frameworks and contributing to a robust CI pipeline.

Given the level the role is expected to work with guidance from senior engineers while gradually taking ownership of the test automation suite. They will be working alongside and as part of the development team and have a great deal of autonomy to influence the development teams testing processes.

• Develop improve and maintain automated test suites across frontend and backend components.
• Write highquality maintainable automated tests that support rapid delivery and reliability.
• Identify and implement a test coverage tool to monitor coverage.
• Own the execution and reporting of automated test pipelines within CI/CD workflows.
• Monitor test flakiness and stability; proactively diagnose root causes and implement fixes.
• Contribute to discussions on testing strategy tooling and testability improvements across the product.
• Ensure all automated testing follows best practice is versioncontrolled and integrates cleanly into engineering workflows.
• Design and implement E2E testing to simulate real user actions and validate the full workflow.

• Work daytoday with developers across three squads to embed quality into feature development.
• Participate in squad ceremonies (standups refinement planning) providing input on test impact and automation needs.
• Collaborate with product managers and engineering leads to understand feature requirements and identify test scenarios.
• Work within an agile cloudfirst engineering environment and contribute to continuous improvement of testing processes.
• Document and track bugs encountered providing detailed reproduction steps environment details and visual documentation to facilitate efficient resolution.

• Learn from developers to deepen technical skills.
• Stay current with modern test automation frameworks patterns and tools recommending improvements where valuable.
• Contribute to documentation of test suites frameworks and best practices.

• 13 years experience in QA automation or software engineering roles with a testing focus.
• Experience developing automated tests for web applications (frontend or backend).
• Familiarity with at least one E2E / Browser Automation framework (e.g. Cypress Playwright Selenium) and one Unit Framework (xUnit Jest NUnit).
• Ability to read and write code in at least one programming language (JavaScript/TypeScript C# Python or similar).
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and automated test execution.
• Ability to work within an agile engineering environment.

Experience with some of the following is beneficial but not required:

• xUnit or similar unit testing frameworks environments.
• API / integration testing methods and tools.

• Cypress Playwright or similar browser automation tools.
  (We currently use Cypress but are open to modernising our approach.)

• Git and version control workflows.
• Dockerised development/testing environments.
• Cloud platforms (Google Cloud Platform preferred but not essential).

The Pipes product is built using:

Backend: C# (.NET)

Frontend: ReactJS

Data: MySQL Firestore BigQuery

Infrastructure: Google Cloud Platform (Cloud Run Cloud Functions Cloud Scheduler Docker)

Testing Frameworks (Current & Planned):

• xUnit (C#)
• Cypress (legacy under review)
• Potential introduction of Playwright or similar end-to-end test automation tool.

Within 6-12 months success in this role will include:

• Demonstrably higher automated test coverage across the platform.
• Stable reliable automated pipelines with decreased test flakiness.
• Ability to work independently across squads and manage the testing suite.
• Meaningful contribution to the teams confidence in software quality and release reliability.

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