Quality Assurance and Automation Engineer

We are looking for qualified QA applicants with hands-on QA expertise, ability to take initiative and develop and evolve our clients QA processes. The ideal candidate will be able to analyze the full technology stack across multiple products and help determine what to test, how to test various components and the best way to execute end to end testing of the platform.

The job responsibilities are as follows:

• Establish and evolve formal QA processes, ensuring that the team is using industry-accepted best practices.
• Oversee all aspects of quality assurance including establishing metrics, implementing best practices, and developing new tools and processes to ensure quality goals are met.
• Act as key point of contact for all QA aspects of releases, providing QA services and coordinating QA resources internally and externally.
• Coordinate test creation with a cross functional team of product owners, architects, and full stack developers
• Develop and execute test cases, scripts, plans and procedures (manual and automated).
• Diagnose defects and track them from discovery to resolution.
• Partner with engineering teams to stay informed of new technologies being introduced and to ensure that system components are designed for testability.
• Respond to all requests from internal and client team members in a timely professional manner.
• Comfortable in handling Automation as well as Manual test case execution.

Qualification:

• Bachelor's Degree
• 3-5 years experience of Software Testing & Quality Assurance
• Demonstrated experience developing and executing test cases, scripts, plans and procedures to support various development methodologies
• Familiarity with full software development life cycle and test cycles (Unit, Regression, Functional, Systems, Stress & Scale, Smoke & Sanity)
• Understanding of multi-tier web application architecture and deployment
• Understanding of existing QA best practices and methodologies to design, implement and automate processes
• Experience coordinating with external / remote QA resources
• Prior success using a metrics-driven approach and closed-loop feedback to improve software deliverables and improve predictability and reliability of releases
• Detailed and effective written communication skills for documenting the features tested and bugs found
• Broad experience designing and maintaining automated tests for Whitebox and Blackbox testing
• Demonstrated ability to roll-up sleeves and work with team members in a hands-on capacity
• Hands on experience either developing or testing Salesforce.com technologies
• Should possess strong analytical, problem solving and troubleshooting abilities with quick adaptation to new technology , methodologies and systems.

Must have skills:

• Proficient in Selenium or Katalon with experience building and maintaining automation frameworks
• Strong command of Core Java or Python for developing automated tests.
• Advanced manual testing skills, including structured test design and execution.
• Solid understanding and application of OOP principles within automation frameworks.

Good to have skills:

• SQL and database testing capabilities (validation, data integrity checks)
• Hands-on API testing using tools or frameworks such as Postman or RestAssured.
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab, Azure DevOps).
• Strong familiarity with Agile methodology and delivery practices.
• Experience executing Power BI functional and data validation tests.
• Working knowledge of REST technologies and related testing patterns.
• Exposure to non-functional testing concepts (performance, security, reliability).