QA Automation Engineer

Job Title: Sr Automation QA Engineer. Position type: Full Time. Work Location: Bangalore, Noida, Gurgaon. Working style: Hybrid. Shift Time: 12PM to 9PM. People Manager role: No.

Aon is in the business of better decisions. At Aon, we shape decisions for the better to protect and enrich the lives of people around the world. As an organization, we are committed to our purpose as one firm, united through trust as one inclusive, diverse team and we are passionate about helping our colleagues and clients succeed.

Job Summary

Senior QA Automation Engineer - works with limited guidance to design, develop, and maintain robust automated test frameworks and suites for medium to high complexity systems, ensuring high quality and reliability of deliverables. Partners closely with Developers, Business Analysts, Product Owners, and DevOps/Infra teams to drive test strategy, automation coverage, and continuous testing as part of CI/CD pipelines. Provides technical leadership within the QA function, mentors junior team members, contributes to estimation and risk identification, and influences improvements in quality engineering practices, tools, and processes.

Job Responsibilities

• Own and evolve test automation strategy and frameworksfor assigned applications and platforms, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and reusability.
• Design, develop, and maintain automated test suites(UI, API, integration, and regression) for medium to high complexity features and systems.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, enabling continuous testing, fast feedback, and quality gates as part of build and release processes.
• Work closely with BAs, Product Owners, and Developers to review requirements and designs, identify test conditions early, and ensure functional and non-functional requirements are testable.
• Lead efforts to maintain and optimize regression test packs, ensuring appropriate coverage of critical business flows and minimizing flakiness.
• Analyze test results, troubleshoot failures, and collaborate with development and DevOps teams to identify root causesand drive timely defect resolution.
• Contribute to and sometimes lead non-functional testingactivities (e.g., performance, reliability, basic security checks) using approved tools and practices.
• Mentor and support junior QA engineers, providing guidance on test design, automation practices, coding standards, and quality mindset.
• Influence and improve QA and engineering processes, standards, and tooling (e.g., coding guidelines for test automation, code review practices for test assets).
• Participate actively in Agile ceremonies(planning, refinement, reviews, retrospectives), providing input on test effort, quality risks, and readiness for release.
• Produce and maintain clear documentationof test frameworks, automation approaches, test plans, and test execution reports for stakeholders.

Skills and Experience

• 6+ years of strong hands-on experience with modern test automation frameworksfor web/UI testing (e.g., Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, WebDriverIO, or equivalent).
• Solid experience testing and automating REST APIs(e.g., Postman with Newman, REST Assured, Karate, or similar).
• Proficiency in at least one programming languageused for automation (e.g., Java, C#, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Python), including good coding practices and refactoring skills.
• Practical experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD tools(e.g., Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI) with build, test, and deployment pipelines.
• Strong understanding of software testing principlesand techniques (functional, integration, regression, exploratory, boundary, negative testing, etc.).
• Working knowledge of relational databases(e.g., SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle) and ability to write moderate-complexity SQL for data setup and validation.
• Experience with version control systems(e.g., Git) and collaborative development workflows (branches, pull requests, code reviews).
• Exposure to or experience with performance testing tools(e.g., JMeter, Gatling, k6) and analysis of performance results is a plus.
• Familiarity with BDD/TDD approachesand tools (e.g., Cucumber, SpecFlow, Behave) is desirable.

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