QA Automation Engineer / SDET - Lead / Senior

QA Automation Engineer / SDET - Lead / Senior

EXPERIENCE : 5 TO 13+ years

LOCATION : Hyderabad, India - Hybrid

EMPLOYMENT : Full-time

Available: : immediately

Role Overview

We are looking for automation-focused QA engineers who can establish strong quality engineering practices for enterprise web applications. The role requires hands-on UI/API automation, integration testing, CI/CD integration, data validation, defect analysis, and release-readiness ownership.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and execute automation-first test strategies covering UI, API, integration, regression, and end-to-end scenarios.
• Translate requirements and acceptance criteria into comprehensive test scenarios and automated test suites.
• Build and maintain automation frameworks using Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or comparable tools.
• Automate API testing using Postman/Newman, REST-assured, or equivalent frameworks.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and establish quality gates for releases.
• Perform database/data validation, negative testing, cross-browser testing, and integration validation.
• Support performance, reliability, and security-focused testing in partnership with engineering and cloud teams.
• Use AI-assisted test-generation and analysis tools where they improve coverage and productivity.

Required Experience & Skills

• Lead: 7-10+ years in software quality engineering; Senior: 4-6+ years.
• Strong hands-on experience with UI automation using Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or equivalent.
• Strong experience testing REST APIs, backend integrations, and database-driven applications.
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of functional, regression, integration, end-to-end, and negative testing strategies.
• Experience with SQL/data validation, defect triage, root-cause collaboration, and release-quality reporting.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with performance testing tools such as JMeter, k6, Gatling, or equivalent.
• Experience testing cloud-hosted, microservice, or event-driven applications.
• Experience with AI-assisted testing tools and test-data generation is a plus.