Senior QA Automation Engineer - Bengaluru

Own manual and automation testing across M’s APIs, apps, and AI agents. Build test coverage, hunt AI failure modes, and own release readiness.

Company Details

At M, we’re early, ambitious, and moving fast. We’re building a new category in how urban households function. We help households run smoothly through trained professionals, operational excellence, and technology-driven support systems.

Backed by Peak XV Partners, Blume Ventures and CRED, we’re reimagining how homes run, so people never have to think about chores again.

Website: https://tellm.co/

The Role

Break what we build before our customers can.

Manual & Automation Testing

Regular software either works or it doesn't. AI is murkier. It can be 95% brilliant and 5% confidently, spectacularly wrong. That 5% is your hunting ground.

We're building an AI copilot that actually runs households: ordering groceries, coordinating staff, juggling a hundred small daily decisions around the household. We need someone who reads "it works on my machine" as a personal insult, and who gets a little thrill from finding the bug nobody thought to look for.

Requirements

• 3+ years actually doing manual and automation testing.
• A real grip on QA methodology, STLC, and the defect lifecycle.
• Hands-on with Selenium / Playwright / Cypress, or API tools like Postman / RestAssured.
• Enough Python, Java, or JavaScript to automate without waiting on anyone.
• Comfort with Git, CI/CD, and SQL. You can read a pipeline and a query.
• A working understanding of REST, JSON, and HTTP.
• The instinct to ask "but what happens if…" before anyone else does.

Bonus Qualifications

• You've tested AI / LLM or other non-deterministic systems.
• You've built automation from a blank file, rather than just inherited someone else's.
• You have strong opinions about flaky tests and how to kill them.

Responsibilities

You'll own quality across a real three-app system: APIs, apps and agents that don't always answer the same way twice.

• Design test cases that bite: turn requirements and user stories into sharp, structured coverage, not checkbox theater.
• Build and scale automation for web and APIs. We live in Playwright.
• Run the full spread: functional, regression, integration, smoke and the exploratory testing where the juicy bugs hide.
• Hunt AI failure modes: hallucinations, adversarial prompts, the "it did what?" moments.
• Tame defects in Linear: log, track, reproduce, and pair with engineers through fix and verify.
• Own release readiness: show up in sprint ceremonies like your name's on the box.
• Level up our QA: push test strategy, coverage, and process forward instead of just following it.

Why Join M?

• You'll be the quality bar for a product thousands of people lean on every day. Fast shipping, genuine autonomy and AI problems that don't have answers yet.
• Work on diverse and challenging real-world problems.
• Work alongside an ambitious team building a category-defining company from the ground up.
• Build skills across customer experience, commerce, and operations.
• Grow quickly in a high-ownership environment.

Job Details

Bengaluru, work from office.

Interview Process

• Technical Discussion
• QA Automation Round
• Founder Discussion

Important Note

ClanX is a recruitment partner, helping TellM hire a QA Automation Engineer.