Senior Software Test Automation Engineer

Senior QA Automation Engineer

Experience: 6 to 9.8 Years

Location: Pune

Position Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior QA Automation Engineer with over 5 years of experience in both manual and automation testing of web-based and API-driven applications. The ideal candidate will possess strong expertise in UI and API automation testing, a solid understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies, and hands-on experience integrating automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines.

Key Skills & Expertise

Testing Methodologies

• Manual Testing: Functional, Regression, Smoke, Sanity
• Automation Testing: UI, API, Performance
• Agile / Scrum Testing Practices (JIRA, Kanban)
• Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)

Automation Tools & Frameworks

• Selenium WebDriver
• Playwright (Optional)
• TestNG / Junit / Nunit

Programming & Scripting

• Java
• JavaScript (Primary language for automation test development)
• C# (Automation test development)
• Basic SQL for database validation
• Shell Scripting (Basic – for CI/CD integration)

API Testing

• Postman
• Rest Assured
• REST & SOAP Web Services
• API Automation Testing

Performance & Load Testing

• JMeter
• LoadRunner
• Performance test execution and result analysis

CI/CD & DevOps

• Jenkins (Basic understanding)
• Jenkins Pipelines
• GitHub Actions
• Azure DevOps (CI/CD for automation tests)
• Docker (Basic understanding)
• Kubernetes (Basic understanding)

Test & Defect Management

• JIRA (Defect tracking, Scrum/Kanban boards)
• qTest Manager (Test case creation, execution, and management)
• Azure Boards

Version Control

• Git
• Bitbucket
• Git commands for automation test script check-ins

Platform & Development Tools

• Visual Studio Code
• Visual Studio

Soft Skills

• Experience with Paired Programming
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities
• Experience working in cross-functional Agile teams
• Quality ownership mindset.

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