Sr QA Automation Engineer

THE ROLE:

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Test Strategy and Leadership: Define and evolve test strategies from the earliest phases of development, ensuring alignment with business goals. Provide guidance on test planning, coverage, and automation strategy to maximize efficiency and quality.
• Quality Engineering & Automation: Design, build, and maintain automation frameworks (e.g. Cypress, Playwright) that scale across projects. Ensure automation is integrated into CI/CD pipelines, enabling faster, more reliable releases.
• Shift-Left and Early Collaboration: Collaborate closely with product owners, designers, and developers during early stages to prevent defects, align on requirements, and bring a quality-first mindset into planning and design.
• Execution and Defect Management: Lead execution of automated and manual testing, oversee defect lifecycle management, and ensure timely resolution of issues while mentoring team members on best practices.
• API Testing: Perform thorough manual and automated API testing, leveraging frameworks such as Cypress and Playwright, ensuring robustness, reliability, and proper integration across services.
• Accessibility Testing: Validate compliance with WCAG 2.2 AA standards through both manual and automated methods, ensuring inclusive and accessible digital experiences.
• Performance and Scalability Testing: Drive performance and load testing initiatives, analyzing results and recommending improvements to ensure systems meet scalability and reliability expectations.
• CMS and Content Validation: Test digital solutions built on CMS platforms such as Contentful, ContentStack, or similar, validating dynamic content delivery and integration.
• Design Review and Usability Validation: Collaborate with designers by reviewing and validating deliverables in Figma, ensuring design intent is met and edge cases are considered.
• Innovation and Continuous Improvement: Actively explore and implement AI-driven testing tools and modern QA practices. Identify opportunities to optimize processes, reduce manual effort, and accelerate delivery.
• Component-Level Quality: (Nice-to-have) Experience testing or developing UI components using Atomic Design principles and tools like Storybook, ensuring modularity and consistency across projects.
• Metrics, Reporting, and Risk Management: Provide clear visibility of quality through KPIs and dashboards. Communicate risks, dependencies, and outcomes effectively to stakeholders and leadership.
• Mentorship and Knowledge Sharing: Coach junior and intermediate QAs, fostering growth and building a strong QA culture across teams. Lead QA ceremonies and advocate for QA practices within Agile processes.
• Consultative Client Engagement: Act as a quality consultant for clients, aligning QA activities with their long-term business objectives and helping shape digital solutions that scale.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

• Fluent English (written and spoken).
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, IT, or equivalent.
• 7+ years of QA experience, with at least 3+ years focused on automation at scale.
• Strong expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript and automation frameworks such as Cypress and Playwright.
• Proven ability to design, maintain, and scale test automation frameworks and integrate them into CI/CD pipelines.
• Solid understanding of software QA methodologies, Agile/Scrum principles, and shift-left practices.
• Hands-on experience in manual and automated API testing with Cypress or Playwright.
• Knowledge and hands-on validation of accessibility testing aligned with WCAG 2.2 AA standards (manual and automated).
• Experience in performance and load testing, with the ability to analyze bottlenecks and recommend improvements.
• Familiarity with CMS platforms such as Contentful, ContentStack, or similar.
• Ability to review and validate designs in Figma, ensuring alignment between design intent and implementation.
• (Nice-to-have) Experience with Atomic Design principles and component-driven testing/development in Storybook.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a consultative mindset to align testing with client business objectives.
• Excellent communication skills, able to act as a bridge across technical and non-technical teams.
• Proven ability to mentor and guide junior and intermediate QAs, fostering growth and a strong QA culture.
• Curiosity and initiative to explore and apply AI-driven QA tools to increase efficiency, coverage, and speed.
• Self-driven, proactive, and able to manage multiple projects with a strong sense of urgency and ownership.
• Comfortable being a key player in both manual and automation testing, understanding the value and balance of each in delivering high-quality products.

Originally posted on Himalayas