Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Education:

• Bachelors degree in computer science or STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics). Experience: Minimum 6 to 8 years of relevant experience. Academic Background: Computer Science or other STEM disciplines.

Technical Skills

• Good Programming experience in Type script/Java script
• Experience in UI Test Automation using Selenium Playwright WebDriverIO Automation and specifically writing code in Type script or Java
• Experience testing APIs and automation with Karate/ Rest Assured/playwright
• Be skilled in core data structures and algorithms
• Experience in writing executing and monitoring automated test suites using a variety of technologies including but not limited to Cucumber Playwright Selenium.

Essential Responsibilities

• Responsible for testing a feature and or a small feature set. Contributes to the team and works with direction from Senior Team Members or management; increasing the ability to work this role you will:
• Break down testing problems estimate effort and independently deliver high-quality testing test case creation and automation for features and small feature sets.
• Apply SDLC principles and testing methodologies (Agile Lean XP CI/CD Continuous Testing Scalability and Test Design techniques) throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Design develop maintain and enhance scalable UI/API automation frameworks reusable components utilities and coding standards that improve automation efficiency execution speed and maintainability. Create configure and maintain automated test suites testing tools and CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Jenkins) including quality gates parallel execution environment validation and system-level integration testing.
• Write effective maintainable and reusable automated tests that validate critical functional requirements and remain resilient to application changes and code refactoring.
• Analyze debug and troubleshoot issues across applications APIs automation frameworks infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines; collaborate with development teams to resolve defects and improve build quality.
• Collaborate with Quality Leaders and cross-functional teams to create test plans define automation strategies establish quality metrics dashboards KPIs and continuously improve quality engineering practices.
• Demonstrate expertise in application domains core data structures algorithms testing tools automation best practices and modern Quality Engineering technologies including AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot.
• Mentor junior QA engineers conduct code reviews share technical knowledge and provide guidance on automation frameworks best practices and testing methodologies.
• Take ownership of deliverables identify opportunities for process improvement and innovation implement reusable automation solutions and contribute to organizational quality and engineering excellence.

Desired Characteristics

• Have a solid understanding of the underlying infrastructure needed to run a large distributed web application
• Has the ability to break down problems and estimate time for development tasks
• Has the ability to make technology choices based on experience
• Demonstrates awareness about competitors and industry

Leadership

• Has the ability to take ownership of small tasks and deliver without supervision while using their discretion to seek help when necessary
• Voices opinions and presents clear rationale. Uses data or factual evidence to influence
• Recognizes collaborative behavior and participates in collaborative activities
• Learns organization vision statement and decision-making framework. Able to understand how team and personal goals/objectives contribute to the organization vision