Automation and QA Principal Lead

Job Summary

Ciklum is looking for an Senior Automation and QA Principal Lead to join our team full-time in India.

We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational organizations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live.

As an Senior Automation and QA Principal Lead, become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experiences of tomorrow. Assess the current Automation suite and migrate them to Playwright and suitable technology.

Responsibilities

• Architect test automation frameworks from scratch
• Develop automated functional UI tests & API/Service level tests
• Integrate automated scripts into the CI/CD process
• Develop, maintain, and expand automated testing infrastructure
• Devise and document test frameworks, coding standards, preferred design patterns, and development methodologies
• Ensure code quality with peer reviews to ensure guidelines and standards are followed
• Define Quality Metrics and implement measurements to determine test effectiveness, and testing efficiency, and measure the overall quality of the Product as a part of the test automation process
• Conclude and report about the quality of the product under test
• Collaborate with other members of the QA team to automate the manual test processes
• Manage, analyze, and mitigate testing risks
• Onboarding of new team members on the project
• Technical advice for the testing teams

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional experience in QA Automation of Web and backend/API testing
• Experience using AI development tools (Claude) to accelerate script creation and maintenance
• Excellent knowledge of different testing methods, techniques, types, and methodologies
• Experience creating test documentation (test strategy, test plans, etc.)
• Experience in the creation of automation frameworks from scratch
• Experience in integrating test reporting (Allure or similar)
• Experience with BDD, ATDD, and TDD approaches
• Knowledge of testing framework such as PlaywrightJS / PuppeteerJS / WebdriverIO
• Experience with at least one of test runners: JasmineJS, MochaJS, Jest, AVA, Playwright
• Understanding of the event loop model in Javascript and async execution
• Good understanding of CSS and XPATH selectors syntax
• Experience with continuous integration processes at least one (Jenkins, Bitbucket CI/CD, Github Actions, teamcity, or similar)
• Experience of working with version control systems (e.g. GIT, SVN and others)
• Understanding of Agile/Scrum/Kanban.
• Experience with continuous integration processes and tools, CI/CD pipelines
• Good knowledge of AWS/Azure DevOps services
• Good Knowledge of SQL and no-SQL DBs (PostgreSQL, mongo, redis, etc.)
• Experience of working in an Agile Scrum/Kanban development environment
• Good English skills - Upper-Intermediate and above
• Strong level spoken and written proficiency in English
• Availability to work with 4 hours of overlap with the central US area

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