QA Automation Engineer

What Youll Do

Automation & Engineering Quality

• Design and build scalable automation frameworks for web, mobile, API, and backend systems.
• Establish tools and practices for automated integration, regression, and performance testing.
• Ensure CI/CD pipelines enforce quality gates and automated validations.
• Track and report metrics such as:
• Test coverage
• Defect leakage
• Regression stability
• Automation effectiveness
• Release quality trends
• Drive production readiness and release confidence.

System Debugging & Reliability

• Perform debugging and root cause analysis for production issues.
• Troubleshoot databases, APIs, logs, and infrastructure-level issues.
• Collaborate with support and engineering teams during production incidents.
• Improve observability, reliability, and quality monitoring practices.

Collaboration & Execution

• Partner with Engineering and Product leadership to align on release quality and delivery timelines.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Backend, DevOps, Support, and Product teams.
• Participate in architecture discussions, code reviews, sprint planning, and release governance.
• Mentor engineers on clean coding, testing practices, and quality engineering principles.

What We’re Looking For

Must-Have Skills

• 4–6 years of experience in SDET/QA engineering with leadership responsibilities.
• Strong coding skills in Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Python.
• Proven experience designing and scaling automation frameworks.
• Strong understanding of backend systems, APIs, and distributed architectures.
• Experience with:
• API testing
• Database validation
• Logs and infrastructure troubleshooting
• CI/CD pipelines
• Strong debugging and root cause analysis capability.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Strong mentoring and team leadership experience.

Strong Technical Signals

• Experience with WebDriverIO, Selenium, Playwright, Appium, or similar frameworks.
• Exposure to K6, JMeter, or performance testing tools.
• Strong SQL fundamentals; NoSQL familiarity is a plus.
• Experience with Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes, Docker, or AWS.
• Understanding of:
• Distributed systems
• Scalability
• Fault tolerance
• High-throughput systems
• Production support and incident management readiness.

Nice to Have

• Experience scaling QA/SDET teams.
• Exposure to fintech, ride-hailing, or consumer-tech platforms.
• Experience working on high-throughput, low-latency systems