Senior QA Engineer - Automation Testing

As a Senior QA Engineer (Automation) at our client's company, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the quality of products across all development and deployment stages. Your responsibilities will include defining and executing QA strategies, leading automation efforts, collaborating with cross-functional teams, ensuring release readiness, monitoring quality metrics, conducting performance and security testing, providing mentorship, optimizing processes, and maintaining comprehensive documentation. Key Responsibilities: - Define & Execute QA Strategy: Develop and implement test strategies covering functional, regression, integration, and exploratory testing. - Automation Leadership: Build and maintain scalable automation frameworks integrated into CI/CD pipelines to improve speed, reliability, and test coverage. - Collaborate Early: Partner closely with Product and Engineering teams to ensure testable requirements and early QA involvement in the development cycle. - Release Readiness: Own end-to-end release validation, including regression testing, defect triage, and final sign-off on product quality. - Quality Metrics & Reporting: Define, track, and communicate key QA metrics (defect leakage, build health, test coverage) to drive data-backed improvements. - Performance & Security Testing: Conduct basic performance and security validation to ensure system robustness. - Mentorship & Best Practices: Guide junior QA engineers, promoting test design excellence, automation best practices, and continuous improvement. - Process Optimization: Continuously enhance QA processes through retrospectives, automation expansion, and shift-left testing principles. - Documentation: Maintain comprehensive documentation of test cases, strategies, bug reports, and quality incident postmortems. Qualifications Required: - 4 - 8 years of QA experience in product-based startups, ideally in B2C environments. - Proven expertise in test automation (e.g., Selenium, Appium, Cypress, Playwright, etc.). - Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, API testing, and test design principles. - Hands-on experience with manual and exploratory testing. - Ability to handle multiple projects independently and drive them to completion. - High sense of ownership, accountability, and attention to detail. - Excellent communication and collaboration skills. - Willingness to work from the office (HSR Layout, Bangalore). Please note that the above description is specific to the role of Senior QA Engineer (Automation) at the company in question. As a Senior QA Engineer (Automation) at our client's company, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the quality of products across all development and deployment stages. Your responsibilities will include defining and executing QA strategies, leading automation efforts, collaborating with cross-functional teams, ensuring release readiness, monitoring quality metrics, conducting performance and security testing, providing mentorship, optimizing processes, and maintaining comprehensive documentation. Key Responsibilities: - Define & Execute QA Strategy: Develop and implement test strategies covering functional, regression, integration, and exploratory testing. - Automation Leadership: Build and maintain scalable automation frameworks integrated into CI/CD pipelines to improve speed, reliability, and test coverage. - Collaborate Early: Partner closely with Product and Engineering teams to ensure testable requirements and early QA involvement in the development cycle. - Release Readiness: Own end-to-end release validation, including regression testing, defect triage, and final sign-off on product quality. - Quality Metrics & Reporting: Define, track, and communicate key QA metrics (defect leakage, build health, test coverage) to drive data-backed improvements. - Performance & Security Testing: Conduct basic performance and security validation to ensure system robustness. - Mentorship & Best Practices: Guide junior QA engineers, promoting test design excellence, automation best practices, and continuous improvement. - Process Optimization: Continuously enhance QA processes through retrospectives, automation expansion, and shift-left testing principles. - Documentation: Maintain comprehensive documentation of test cases, strategies, bug reports, and quality incident postmortems. Qualifications Required: - 4 - 8 years of QA experience in product-based startups, ideally in B2C environments. - Proven expertise in test automation (e.g., Selenium, Appium, Cypress, Playwright, etc.). - Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, API testing, and test design principles. - Hands-on experience with manual and exploratory testing. - Ability to handle multiple projects independently and drive them to completion. - High sense of ownership, accountability, and attention to detail. - Excellent communication and collaboration skills. - Willingness to work from the office (HSR Layout, Bangalore). Please note that