Sr. QA Automation Engineer

Role Overview

Position: QA Engineer
Focus: Manual + Automation testing across Web, API, Mobile, Microservices, and Data platforms
Tech stack: Selenium (Java), RestAssured, Appium, Spring Boot microservices, Kafka/event-driven systems, SQL, JMeter

🛠 Responsibilities

• Analyze requirements → define test strategy, plans, and cases
• Perform manual testing: functional, regression, UI, cross-browser, exploratory
• Build & maintain Selenium WebDriver (Java) automation frameworks (POM, data-driven)
• Integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
• Execute API testing (Postman/RestAssured) + DB validation (SQL)
• Test Java microservices: REST APIs, messaging flows, Kafka/RabbitMQ
• Validate schemas & contracts (OpenAPI, Swagger, JSON, Avro, Protobuf)
• Design distributed systems tests (idempotency, retries, eventual consistency, sagas)
• Run performance tests (JMeter) + basic security testing (OAuth2, OIDC)
• Provide metrics, defect tracking (Jira/TestRail), and collaborate with Dev teams

✅ Required Skills

• Strong SDLC/STLC understanding, risk-based testing
• Selenium WebDriver + Java (11/17), TestNG/JUnit, Maven/Gradle
• API automation (RestAssured), mobile testing (Appium, device farms)
• Solid SQL knowledge
• Debugging + documentation skills
• Experience with Kafka/event-driven systems
• Containers & environments (Docker, basic Kubernetes, Testcontainers)
• Observability: logs/metrics/traces (ELK, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
• Performance/reliability testing (JMeter, Gatling)
• Cloud basics: AWS/GCP/Azure (S3, DBs, messaging, secrets/config)
• Security testing: OAuth2, JWT, RBAC, OWASP API Top 10
• Agile/Scrum experience

🌟 Nice to Have

• Mocks/stubs & isolated testing (WireMock, LocalStack, Pact)
• Data pipelines QA (Kafka → Spark/Airflow/dbt) with quality checks
• Strong SQL + ETL/ELT testing
• BDD frameworks (Cucumber/Gherkin)

🎓 Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in Engineering (or equivalent)
• 4–8 years QA experience (manual + automation)
• Proven Selenium + Java framework expertise
• (Bonus) Data pipeline testing

👉 This is a senior-level QA role (4–8 yrs) requiring full-stack QA skills: web, API, mobile, microservices, and some exposure to data engineering.