Full Description

Key Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain end-to-end automated test frameworks and test suites for Web, API, and Mobile applications. Automate in-sprint stories and integrate automated tests alongside feature development. Develop and maintain reusable automation libraries, utilities, fixtures, data factories, and test data management solutions. Establish and enforce automation coding standards, code reviews, and quality best practices. Design and implement robust locator strategies, synchronization mechanisms, and test stability improvements. Manage and optimize CI/CD pipelines for automated testing, including test execution, reporting, parallelization, and quality gates. Create and maintain automated test reporting dashboards and quality metrics. Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and QA teams to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve defects. Support contract testing, service virtualization, mocks, and stubs to improve testing efficiency. Mentor and guide team members on automation frameworks, test design, and debugging techniques. Drive continuous improvement in test automation, quality engineering practices, and productivity through AI-enabled solutions and tooling. Develop tools, platforms, and innovative solutions that enhance QA efficiency, reliability, and scalability.

Mandatory Skills

Web UI automation using Cypress with JavaScript/TypeScript. API test automation using Postman/Newman and/or REST Assured. Mobile test automation using Appium with Java. Strong understanding of automation framework design and test architecture. Expertise in test design techniques, boundary testing, negative testing, assertions, and test data management. Experience developing reusable automation components, utilities, and frameworks. CI/CD pipeline integration using Jenkins and/or GitLab CI. Experience with automated test reporting tools such as Allure, JUnit, or HTML Reports. Strong knowledge of Git version control, branching strategies, pull requests, and code reviews. Strong debugging and root cause analysis capabilities across application, API, network, and mobile layers. Understanding of SDLC, Agile methodologies, and quality engineering practices. Knowledge of security, privacy, reliability, and quality considerations for business-critical applications. Strong collaboration, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Desirable Skills

Experience with AI-powered productivity and engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Kiro, MCP, ACP, A2A, Ollama, and similar platforms. Knowledge of contract testing tools such as Pact. Experience with Docker and containerized testing environments. Familiarity with Jira, Xray, test analytics, and traceability management. Knowledge of accessibility testing and internationalization validation. Understanding of UI and API performance profiling and performance testing concepts. Experience with test containers, service virtualization, stubs, and mocks. Experience with SonarQube quality gates and code quality management. Exposure to Selenium and/or Playwright automation frameworks.