QA Automation Engineer (Playwright / Cypress / Selenium)

Job Description:

About the Company

A next-generation SaaS platform building advanced solutions in supply chain intelligence-covering Procurement, Distribution, Forecasting, Workflow Automation, and AI-driven copilots.
The company moves fast, ships often, and prioritizes reliability. QA is treated as an engineering discipline, not a checkbox.

This role is ideal for someone early in their career who wants to grow quickly, take ownership, and build the automation backbone for high-velocity product teams.

Role Overview

As a QA / Automation Engineer, you will work closely with Product, Engineering, and Design teams to ensure the reliability, stability, and performance of enterprise-scale modules.
You will design test plans, automate critical flows, lead regression cycles, and help build reliable testing infrastructure for:

• Web applications

• Backend services

• Workflow automation

• AI/LLM-powered features

Key Responsibilities

1. Test Planning & Execution

• Understand product requirements and convert them into detailed test plans.

• Perform functional, regression, integration, end-to-end, and exploratory testing.

• Identify edge cases, failure scenarios, and behavioural gaps.

2. Automation & Framework Development

• Build and maintain automated test scripts for major product flows.

• Automate UI, API, workflow, and LLM-based modules.

• Maintain and enhance CI pipelines to ensure reliable PR-level test execution.

3. Defect Management & Quality Ownership

• Log defects with clean steps, screenshots, logs, and context.

• Work with engineers to root-cause issues and verify fixes.

• Advocate for reliability and push for high-quality releases.

4. Release & Regression Management

• Own regression cycles for every sprint and major release.

• Ensure no major issues reach production.

• Continuously improve coverage, speed, and consistency of the regression suite.

5. Collaboration & Communication

• Represent QA in sprint ceremonies and standups.

• Challenge unclear requirements and raise risks early.

• Act as a quality gatekeeper for all releases.

Required Skills & Experience

• 1-2 years of experience as a QA or Automation Engineer.

• Strong understanding of SDLC, testing methodologies, and release workflows.

• Hands-on experience with:

  • Test automation tools: Playwright / Cypress / Selenium

  • API testing: Postman, Newman, REST Assured

  • Scripting: JavaScript or Python

• Ability to break complex systems into test scenarios.

• Strong debugging, analytical, and documentation skills.

• Comfortable in a fast-paced startup environment.

Bonus Skills (Good to Have)

• Experience testing LLM/AI-powered features.

• Experience with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Jenkins).

• Database exposure: SQL, BigQuery.

• Familiarity with microservices and asynchronous workflows (Celery, Argo).

• Understanding of procurement or supply-chain workflows (not mandatory).

What We Look For

• High ownership and low ego.

• Curiosity and willingness to understand systems deeply.

• A mindset to learn from failures and improve continuously.

• Passion for automating repetitive tasks.

• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration.

Why Join

• Work on one of the most complex and impactful SaaS domains in India.

• Collaborate with a world-class Engineering and Product team.

• Build automation frameworks from the ground up-your work directly prevents failures.

• Fast career growth, high responsibility, zero bureaucracy.

• A culture that values craftsmanship, quality, and attention to detail.