Senior QE

We are currently seeking a Sr. QE to join our team in Chennai, Tamil Ndu (IN-TN), India (IN).

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Maintain an automation-first mindset and approach.
• Primary point of contact for the QE team and responsible for all QE deliverables
• Enforce testing best practices and guide the team to follow those standards.
• Finds opportunities for automation in lieu of manual testing and enforces the Automation First, Contract First approach.
• Design & develop test automation frameworks and customize test automation framework on project needs.
• Understand and follow business requirements, identify gaps in the business requirements, advice the client accordingly and helps the team in covering all business use cases.
• Able to define test strategy and leads the team in implementing it.
• Guide QEs on test plan, approach, tools, and test automation scripting needs.
• Identify, define, and manage tools and processes for the team.
• Mentor team members on Scrum and Agile framework.
• Effectively use and guide the team on test management tool (test design, execution, reporting, traceability matrix)
• Assist in implementation of the test management tool within the team.
• Establish, generate, and publish test execution & bug reports, testing metrics, trends etc.
• Effectively use and guide the team on defect management process (Create, set priority/severity, retest, close, root cause analysis, defect prevention)
• Guide team members on identifying the root cause of bugs (e.g. API/BE, data, UI, logs, or environment issues etc.)
• Generate and guide team members on bug metrics and reports.
• Coordinate bug triage between business, dev, and test teams across all kinds of bugs.
• Drive and train team members to execute automated test cases (happy path, edge cases, negative, complex business scenarios) for browser-based or mobile applications.
• Drive and train team members to create and execute test cases (happy path, edge cases, negative, complex business scenarios) for REST or SOAP APIs.
• Train team members to write and execute complex SQL queries and commands.
• Lead internal team meetings and drive communication with clients.
• Actively participate in client meetings, project-wide reviews of requirements, system architecture and detailed design documents
• Manage and perform load and stress tests using enterprise level test automation tools.
• Manage, lead, and maintain physical, virtualized, and simulated test environments.

Basic Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience in designing and developing a new test automation framework from scratch using a test automation tool like Playwright / JavaScript / TypeScript or /Selenium/Cucumber/Java or Flow or similar frameworks.
• 4+ years of hands-on experience in software testing and writing test automation code in at least one programming or scripting language (JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, C# and/or Python) and guide team members on technical front.
• 4+ years of hands-on experience in developing and executing test scripts for REST or SOAP based APIs.

• 4+ years of experience in intercepting and mocking complex HTTP API calls in UI and API tests.

• 2+ years of experience in messaging systems (AMQ, WMQ or Kafka).

• 4+ years of experience in writing and guiding teams on complex end-to-end tests automation.

• 4+ years of experience on test management and defect tracking tools like Jira, Azure DevOps, HP ALM, etc.
• 4+ years of experience in driving defect management strategy (create, set priority/severity, retest, close, traceability, reporting etc.)
• 2+ years of experience in driving the team to implement automated test suites for all testing types (unit, component, API, UI, UAT, E2E, etc.)
• 3+ years of hands-on experience in writing and executing complex SQL queries and understands concepts like indexing, schemas, views, etc.
• 2+ years of experience in training team members to understand version control concepts.
• 2+ years of experience in guiding the team on version control concepts, tools and hands-on experience on commands and operations (like commit, fetch, push, pull, squash, resolve merge conflicts etc.)
• 3+ years of hands-on experience on at least one of the performance testing tools (e.g., JMeter, K6, LoadRunner, NeoLoad, etc.).
• 1+ years of experience in analyzing performance testing requirements and implementation of load, stress, endurance, volume testing etc.
• 2+ years of experience in leading the team on CI/CD pipeline implementation for automated tests suites. (in coordination with DevSecOps team)
• 2+ years of experience in creating test plan for accessibility and security testing.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience on cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS, GCP)
• 1 year of understanding of Gen AI, Gen AI tools (e.g., GitHub CoPilot) and experience in leveraging Gen AI in quality engineering space.
• Language requirement: English

Preferred Skills:

• Mobile test automation development is a big plus.
• Experience leading and working with cross-functional teams in fast-growing environment.
• Strong organizational skills and eager to tackle new challenges.
• Experience planning, designing, and implementing testing strategies and automation infrastructure for large scale system software.

Ideal Mindset:

• Lifelong Learner. You are always seeking to improve your technical and nontechnical skills.
• Team Player. You are someone who wants to see everyone on the team succeed and is willing to go the extra mile to help a teammate in need.
• Communicator. You know how to communicate your design ideas to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders, prioritizing critical information and leaving out extraneous

Include if in India:

Please note Shift Timing Requirement: 1:30pm IST -10:30 pm IST

Location - Chennai,India,Bengaluru,Hyderabad,Noida,Gurugram,Pune