Senior QA Automation Engineer (Kochi)

Job Location: Kochi Trivandrum Experience 6+ Years Job Purpose - Perform automation test activities for a major product platform implementation interacting with client stakeholders, working with cross functional teams, ensuring end-to-end coverage of functional testing, implement test automation frameworks, enabling in sprint test automation for UI as well as backend. / Duties and Responsibilities - Function as the test automation engineer for major product platform implementation, ensuring quality of the application under test. - Analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, the ability to see the root of the problem and come up with effective, creative, and cost-effective solutions. - Perform test planning, team coordination, monitoring and control of the testing activities. Ability to communicate findings in both technical and user-friendly language. - Participate in customer calls, the requirement gathering exercises, sprint planning / grooming sessions, sprint review etc. as needed. - Work experience with projects having in sprint test automation. - Knowledge of different automation testing tools and expertise in Cypress and TestRail. - Work in close liaison with customer and development teams for co-ordination and communications related to the testing activities. - Ensure that the stories are verified for accuracy of acceptance criteria and is tested as per the sprint plan to enable early validation and prevent defect leakage to production. - Monitor the project from process and quality standpoint and alert the project manager about the deviations/risks at the earliest. - Track the quality metrics and initiate proactive interventions with customer and development teams to improve the metrics. - Efficient reporting of the test metrics to client stakeholders reflecting the accurate information on the status and quality of the product. - Should have good working knowledge of agile processes and DevOps processes specifically regarding testing. - Interact with client stakeholders to understand the testing needs as per product requirements, quality gating criteria, strategies to realize the test outcomes, enable test automation. - Perform test planning activities for each sprint and ensure the team can complete testing as per the test strategy defined. - Perform in sprint test automation for feature delivery in alignment with dev cycles by enabling required process modelling and mitigating challenges. - Ensure that the defined test approach is followed, and the tasks are completed as planned in the sprint. Raise any risks encountered. - Collaborate with rest of the team to ensure that the stories get tested as soon as the development is complete as per the sprint plan. - Perform test reporting like test progress report, summary report, quality metrics etc. and keep the project team posted on the testing progress. - Participate in periodic review of the testing process and the deliverables created. Suggest process improvements needed. - Identify and implement technical innovations that adds value and improve the engineering processes including AI adoption. - Ability to quickly adapt and learn new tools and follow best practices in the industry. - Frequently connect with the testing team and support them in addressing any concerns or issues that they are facing in the project. Job Specification / Skills and Competencies - Automation Testing - Implementation of test automation frameworks - Functional & - Product Testing Experience - In sprint Test automation experience - UI & - API based test automation - Experience on Cypress & - TestRail - Test Reporting and KPIs - Client interfacing skills - Agile & - DevOps Any Additional Information/Specifics - The candidate should have excellent communication skills, strong interpersonal skills and be team oriented. - Good client interfacing skills. - Knowledge of financial domain specifically payments will be an added advantage. - Innovative in proposing/Implementing new ideas/processes. - Ability to quickly learn and adapt to new testing tools/technology and implement it effectively. - To adhere to ISMS policies and procedures. Job Location: Kochi Trivandrum Experience 6+ Years Job Purpose - Perform automation test activities for a major product platform implementation interacting with client stakeholders, working with cross functional teams, ensuring end-to-end coverage of functional testing, implement test automation frameworks, enabling in sprint test automation for UI as well as backend. / Duties and Responsibilities - Function as the test automation engineer for major product platform implementation, ensuring quality of the application under test. - Analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, the ability to see the root of the problem and come up with effective, creative, and cost-effective solutions. - Perform test planning, team coordination, monitoring and control of the testing activ