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About The Job

Job Title: QA Automation Specialist

Location: Teynampet, Chennai

Job Type: Full-time

Company: Gigadesk Technologies Pvt. Ltd.[Greatify.ai]

Company Description

At Greatify.ai, we are transforming educational institutions with cutting-edge AI-powered solutions. Our platform acts as a smart operating system for colleges, schools, and universities—enhancing learning, streamlining operations, and maximizing efficiency. With 100+ institutions served, 100,000+ students impacted globally, and 1,000+ educators empowered, we are redefining the future of education.

COMPANY WEBSITE: https://www.greatify.ai/

Role Overview

We are seeking a QA Automation Engineer to strengthen our quality assurance capabilities across a rapidly scaling product suite. The ideal candidate will champion end-to-end automation coverage for both web and native mobile platforms, ensuring robust, scalable, and maintainable test infrastructure. You will primarily work with our existing Playwright-Python automation framework, and extend its reach across modules, services, and platforms. This role demands strong strategic ownership and hands-on scripting ability in a fast-paced product engineering environment.

Key Responsibilities

Design, implement, and maintain automation test suites for web and mobile applications with a strong emphasis on modularity and reuse. Create end-to-end test workflows using Playwright (Python) covering UI validation, user journeys, and edge-case scenarios. Develop native mobile automation scripts using Appium for both iOS and Android platforms. Ensure comprehensive coverage across functional, regression, smoke, and integration testing stages. Perform REST API automation with Python frameworks or Postman (including auth flows, payload validation, status codes, schema validation). Support and extend performance/load/stress testing suites using tools such as Locust, JMeter, or k6, especially for high-traffic modules. Integrate test automation into existing CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions, including parallel test execution and automated reporting. Collaborate with cross-functional squads—product managers, developers, and UX designers—to define acceptance criteria and ensure fast, high-quality delivery. Contribute to QA documentation including test plans, bug reports, and coverage maps, ensuring traceability and audit readiness. Apply version control best practices (Git) and actively participate in code reviews and knowledge-sharing sessions. Continuously optimize test data management, especially for environments requiring mocked services or synthetic data generation. Lead efforts in flaky test detection, test suite triage, and root cause analysis of test failures.

Key Skills

Strong coding skills in Python, with the ability to architect and extend automation frameworks from scratch. Experience using Playwright with Python for dynamic web UI test cases, including Shadow DOM handling and selector strategy. Proficiency with Appium and emulator/simulator setups for mobile test environments. Solid understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) and QA methodologies including agile/DevOps workflows. Familiarity with test reporting tools (e.g., Allure, TestNG, ReportPortal) for visual insights into automation health. Experience in cloud-based test execution platforms such as BrowserStack, LambdaTest, or Sauce Labs. Exposure to containerization tools (Docker) for isolated test environments. Understanding of security and accessibility testing would be a plus.

Skills: - Playwright, Python, Test Automation (QA) and Manual testing

Seniority level Mid-Senior level Employment type Full-time Job function Quality Assurance Industries Education Administration Programs