Test Automation Engineer

Job purpose:

Design & implement the best engineered technical solutions using latest technologies and tools.

Who you are:

• Direct the development of the QA strategy, methodology, discipline and framework. Driving and improving the QA team in areas of agile testing and automated testing.
• Must have experience in Playwright and Typescript.
• Provide technical leadership and expertise within the field of Quality Assurance, Testing and Test Automation.
• Provide technical expertise in Testing Methodologies, Testing Processes, Test Automation, Tools and Techniques across the teams.
• Ensuring that the development teams adhere to the principles, guidelines, and best practices of the QA strategy as defined.
• Mentor and provide leadership to the QA engineers. Participate in interviews, induction, training and performance evaluation of QA team members.
• Focus on continuous QA improvements including usage of appropriate testing tools, test techniques, test automation.
• Building and maintenance of quality standards as well as enforcing technical and testing standards.
• Monitoring of all the QA activities, test results, leaked defects, root cause analysis and identifying areas of improvement. Implement steps required to improve the processes.
• Gather and present testing metrics and testing activities for the projects to key stakeholders.
• Ensure the proper usage of available tools to gain the maximum benefit of the QA effort. This includes testing tools for functional, performance, automation, etc.
• Be an escalation point for all matters related to testing and quality assurance and operate as a primary point of contact for the QA teams.
• Work with Development managers and the Software Development Leadership to develop and execute QA strategies to meet and exceed department and corporate quality goals.

What will excite us:

• About 9+ years of overall experience and at least 2 years in a playwright
• Ability to build, implement and direct quality assurance principles and maintain the quality of delivery.
• Experience managing testing departments or testing functions, managing large and complex activities and processes.
• Have strong technical skills, both functional and non-functional, manual and automation, ideally in a continuous delivery environment.
• Strong experience in and understanding of Test Strategy and ability to design and implement.
• Strong communication skills with all the key stakeholders to ensure QA vision is understood and implemented correctly.
• Be an advocate of Quality Assurance, Continuous Improvement and industry recognized Best Practices.
• Experience with Testing Tools & Frameworks for functional, performance & automation testing.
• Experience with Performance Testing for Web Based Applications.
• Experience with continuous integration tools and source control tools.
• Good experience in building and using automation frameworks.
• Collaborate with BA, Scrum Master, Project Manager and other stakeholders in prioritizing the right set of Quality initiatives to meet business goals.
• Strong people management skills with a proven track record in hiring, developing, and retaining high performing QA team.
• Strong organizational and problem-solving skills with great attention to detail, critical thinking, solid communication and proven leadership skills - with the ability to lead.
• Strong written and verbal communications skills; able to effectively present to varied audiences

What will excite you:

• Opportunity to work on large scale enterprise solution building.
• Opportunity to explore new technologies & frameworks with accomplished solution architects & industry leaders.
• Will get exposure to latest aspects of security, AI/ML, Business Domain and data analytics.

Location:

• Working from Office from Ahmedabad