Senior QA Engineer-Cloud (Gurugram)

Company Overview: Schneider Electric is a global leader in energy management and automation, committed to providing innovative solutions that ensure Life Is On everywhere, for everyone, and at every moment. We are expanding our team in Gurugram and looking for a Senior QA engineer with strong experience in cloud application testing, API validation, and end-to-end feature validation. candidate will be responsible for ensuring the quality, reliability, and performance of our cloud-based platforms and microservices. This role demands hands-on technical expertise, robust analytical thinking, and the ability to collaborate across engineering, DevOps, and product teams. Responsibilities: * Cloud Feature Testing: * Perform end-to-end validation of cloud features deployed across microservices, serverless components, APIs, and cloud infrastructure. * Validate cloud workflows, integrations, and user journeys across distributed systems. * Conduct functional, regression, integration, and exploratory testing on cloud-based applications. API & Microservices Testing: * Design, execute, and automate API test suites using tools like Postman, RestAssured, Swagger, or similar. * Validate payloads, API responses, authentication mechanisms, error codes, and performance behaviors. Automation & Framework Contribution: * Build and enhance automated test scripts for API, backend, and cloud workflows. * Integrate automation suites into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins/GitLab/Azure DevOps). * Improve automation coverage and contribute to framework enhancements. Test Planning and Design: * Develop comprehensive test plans and strategies to cover all aspects of software functionality. * Ensure test setup and test env preparedness. * Identify test data requirements and prepare test data sets. * Review of test cases (TC) ensure coverage of tests as per the Test strategy. Test Execution: * Execute manual and automated tests to verify software functionality, performance, and usability. * Log and track defe .