Automation Test Engineer

About Us

We are a fast-growing startup focused on building cutting-edge platforms in fintech and beyond. As a lean, agile team with a strong engineering culture, we’re driven by innovation, ownership, and constant learning. Our current projects span backend APIs, infrastructure automation, and AI-driven platforms. If you’re excited by elegant architecture, modern tooling, and being part of a team that values craft and experimentation — we’d love to talk.

About the Role

We are looking for a QA / Test Engineer with a strong development background to join our engineering team. This role is automation-first (≈90% automated testing, 10% manual) and is ideal for someone who thinks like an engineer, not a traditional tester.

You will work closely with backend, frontend, and platform engineers to design, build, and maintain automated test frameworks for a microservices-based, API-first, cloud-native platform. Quality, reliability, security, and scalability are core to this role.

Key Responsibilities

1. Test Automation & Engineering

• Design and implement automated test suites for: API testing, Integration testing, End-to-end (E2E) testing, Regression testing
• Build reusable, modular, and maintainable test frameworks.
• Write test code with the same discipline as production code (clean structure, naming, documentation).

2. Microservices & Integration Testing

• Validate service-to-service communication, message queues, async flows, and event-driven systems, Test APIs for correctness, performance, resilience, and failure scenarios.
• Ensure contract testing between microservices.

3. CI/CD & DevOps Integration

• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines so they run automatically on: Pull requests, Merges, Deployments
• Work with DevOps/Platform engineers to ensure tests are reliable, fast, and actionable.
• Support quality gates in pipelines (fail builds on critical issues).

4. Security & Reliability Testing

• Perform security-focused testing, including: API security testing, Authentication & authorization checks, OWASP Top 10 vulnerability validation
• Validate data integrity, access controls, and multi-tenant isolation.
• Assist with test coverage for compliance and audit readiness.

5. Manual Testing (Selective)

• Perform exploratory/manual testing when required: New features, Complex workflows, Edge cases not yet automated

Skills & Experience

Must-Have:

• Strong development background (not just manual QA).
• Experience writing test automation using one or more of:
• Go, Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Java / Kotlin
• Solid understanding of microservices architecture and API-first systems.

Automation & Testing Tools

Experience with modern testing tools/frameworks such as:

• API Testing: Postman/Newman, REST Assured, SuperTest
• Automation Frameworks:
• Playwright / Cypress (for frontend/E2E)
• Selenium (if applicable)
• Contract Testing: Pact
• Performance Testing: k6, JMeter
• Test Reporting: Allure, TestNG/JUnit reports, custom dashboards

CI/CD & Infrastructure

• Experience integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI preferred; GitHub Actions acceptable).
• Familiarity with:
• Docker containers
• Kubernetes environments
• Understanding of test execution in cloud environments.

Security Testing

• Knowledge of OWASP Top 10
• Familiarity with tools like: OWASP ZAP, Burp Suite (basic)
• Understanding of authentication mechanisms (JWT, OAuth, API keys).

Bonus Points For:

• Experience testing multi-tenant SaaS platforms.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS preferred).
• Experience testing distributed systems, message brokers, or event streaming platforms.
• Familiarity with observability tools (logs, metrics, traces).
• Exposure to compliance-driven testing (FinTech is a plus).

What We’re Looking For (Mindset)

• Thinks like an engineer, not just a tester.
• Strong attention to detail with a quality-first mindset.
• Curious, proactive, and not afraid to break things to make them better.
• Comfortable working independently in a startup environment.
• Excellent communication skills — able to explain issues clearly to developers.
• Believes that testing is code and quality is everyone’s responsibility.

Why Join Us?

• Work on real, high-impact products from day one.
• Work on a modern, cloud-native, microservices platform.
• Automation-first QA culture — no repetitive manual testing.
• Direct influence on architecture, quality standards, and CI/CD workflows.
• Collaborative startup environment with real ownership.
• Exposure to FinTech-grade reliability, security, and scale.
• Collaborative, ego-free environment that encourages experimentation.
• Dog-friendly home-office workspace with plans to scale to a dedicated office.

Ready to Apply?

If you’re a QA engineer who loves writing code, automating everything, and embedding quality into the delivery pipeline, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply with your CV and (if available) a GitHub or sample test framework you’ve worked on.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: ₹360,000.00 - ₹1,000,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Flexible schedule

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Mohammedwadi, Pune, Maharashtra: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Experience:

• Cloud development: 1 year (Preferred)
• Go: 1 year (Required)

Language:

• English (Required)

Work Location: In person