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Senior Automation QA Engineer

Ciklum India

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Posted Aug 13, 2026

**Role & seniority: ** Senior Automation QA Engineer (Senior); full-time

**Location & work type: ** India (Chennai or Pune mentioned); on-site/full-time

**Stack / tools: **

  • QA automation: PHP, Selenium (UI automation, API automation)

  • CI/CD: automated test integration into CI/CD pipelines (continuous testing/delivery)

  • Agile tools: Jira, Confluence; support sprint planning/backlog refinement/UAT

  • Quality artifacts (requirements/process): BRDs, FRDs, user stories, acceptance criteria, traceability matrices; BPMN/UML

  • Top 3 responsibilities:

    • Lead manual + automation testing for enterprise applications, ensuring quality, scalability, release readiness

    • Develop/maintain and execute UI and API automation frameworks (PHP + Selenium)

    • Integrate test suites into CI/CD for continuous testing; collaborate to identify risks/defects and improve quality

  • Must-have skills:

    • 5+ years QA engineering with strong manual and automation testing

    • Testing experience for APIs/integrations/backend processes and reliable data flow

    • Payments/fintech domain knowledge: payment processing, transaction lifecycle, reconciliation/clearing/settlement, refunds, chargebacks

    • Ability to gather/document requirements and define acceptance criteria/traceability; strong analytical and stakeholder management

  • Nice-to-haves:

    • Business Analyst experience in payments/fintech (explicitly highlighted)

Full Description

Ciklum is looking for a Senior Automation QA Engineer to join our team full-time in India.

We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational organizations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live.

About the role

As a Senior Automation QA Engineer, become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experiences of tomorrow.

Responsibilities

  • Lead manual and automation testing efforts for enterprise applications with a focus on quality, scalability, and release readiness
  • 5+ years of experience in QA Engineering with strong manual and automation testing experience
  • Develop, maintain, and execute UI and API automation frameworks using PHP and Selenium
  • Integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines to support continuous testing and delivery
  • Mentor team members on automation best practices, testing processes, and framework improvements
  • Collaborate with engineering, product, and business teams to identify risks, troubleshoot defects, and improve overall product quality
  • Validate APIs, integrations, and backend processes to ensure reliable data flow across systems

Requirements

  • Strong experience as a Business Analyst in payments, fintech, or financial services, with a solid understanding of payment processing and settlement workflows
  • Experience gathering and documenting business and functional requirements for payment gateway consolidation or payment platform modernization initiatives
  • Good understanding of payment gateways, transaction lifecycle, reconciliation, clearing, settlement, refunds, and chargebacks
  • Experience working on legacy application modernization, preferably involving PHP-based applications and migration to modern architectures
  • Ability to collaborate with business stakeholders, architects, product owners, and engineering teams to define target-state processes and solution requirements
  • Experience creating BRDs, FRDs, user stories, process flows (BPMN/UML), acceptance criteria, and traceability matrices
  • Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies and tools such as Jira and Confluence, with experience supporting sprint planning, backlog refinement, and UAT
  • Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to bridge business objectives and technical implementation across cross-functional teams

What’s in it for you?

*** Strong community:** Work alongside top professionals in a friendly, open-door environment

*** Growth focus:** Take on large-scale projects with a global impact and expand your expertise

*** Tailored learning:** Boost your skills with internal events (meetups, conferences, workshops), Udemy access, language courses, and company-paid certifications

*** Endless opportunities:** Explore diverse domains through internal mobility, finding the best fit to gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies

*** Care:** We’ve got you covered with company-paid medical insurance, mental health support, and financial & legal consultations

About us

At Ciklum, we are always exploring innovations, empowering each other to achieve more, and engineering solutions that matter. With us, you’ll work with cutting-edge technologies, contribute to impactful projects, and be part of a One Team culture that values collaboration and progress.

India is a strategic innovation hub for Ciklum, with growing teams in Chennai and Pune leading advancements in EdgeTech, AR/VR, IoT, and beyond. Join us to collaborate on game-changing solutions and take your career to the next level.

Explore, empower, engineer with Ciklum!

Interested already? We would love to get to know you! Submit your application. We can’t wait to see you at Ciklum.

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