Senior QA Engineer – Automation & Manual (Selenium / Appium) - Hyderabad

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About the Role

hands-on Senior QA Engineer

The role involves 40% Manual + 60% Automation testing, with ownership of testing strategy, automation framework development, CI/CD integration, and cross-functional collaboration.

Key Responsibilities

• Define test plans, test cases, and maintain traceability to requirements.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts for:

• Web:

  Selenium/WebDriver (Java or Python)

• Mobile:

  Appium (Android/iOS, real devices & emulators)
• Execute API testing (Postman / RestAssured).
• Manage test data creation, environment setup, mocks & virtualized services.
• Perform manual functional, regression, smoke & exploratory testing.
• Integrate tests with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions/GitLab/Jenkins).
• Analyze flaky tests, run parallel pipelines, and ensure release readiness.
• Report defects using Jira; track pass rate, coverage, defect leakage.
• Conduct basic performance tests (Lighthouse/JMeter) & security checks (OWASP).
• Partner with Developers, PMs, UX Designers in design & sprint reviews.

Must-Have Skills

• Automation:

  Selenium (Web) & Appium (Mobile).

• Programming:

  Java or Python (one strong; able to read the other).

• Frameworks:

  TestNG/JUnit OR PyTest; Page Object Model; data-driven tests.

• API Testing:

  Postman, RestAssured/requests, JSON validations.

• CI/CD:

  Git, GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins; Allure/Extent reporting.

• Manual QA:

  Test design, exploratory testing, regression execution.

• Mobile QA:

  Android Studio / Xcode simulators; BrowserStack/Device Farm.

Nice to Have

• BDD tools (Cucumber/Behave).
• Contract testing (Pact).
• Visual testing (Applitools).
• JMeter/k6 for performance.
• Accessibility testing (axe).
• Docker basics, Testcontainers.
• Monitoring/analytics validation (Sentry, Google Analytics).
• SQL basics (MySQL/Postgres) for data verification.