Senior QA Engineer (Automation)

As a Senior QA Engineer (Automation), you will drive product quality across all stages of development and deployment. You'll take complete ownership of defining QA strategy, implementing robust automation frameworks, and ensuring every release meets our high standards of reliability, performance, and user delight. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced startup environment, loves solving problems, and is passionate about building scalable and flawless user experiences.

Responsibilities:

• Define and Execute QA Strategy: Develop and implement test strategies covering functional, regression, integration, and exploratory testing.
• Automation Leadership: Build and maintain scalable automation frameworks integrated into CI/CD pipelines to improve speed, reliability, and test coverage.
• Collaborate Early: Partner closely with Product and Engineering teams to ensure testable requirements and early QA involvement in the development cycle.
• Release Readiness: Own end-to-end release validation, including regression testing, defect triage, and final sign-off on product quality.
• Quality Metrics and Reporting: Define, track, and communicate key QA metrics (defect leakage, build health, test coverage) to drive data-backed improvements.
• Performance and Security Testing: Conduct basic performance and security validation to ensure system robustness.
• Mentorship and Best Practices: Guide junior QA engineers, promoting test design excellence, automation best practices, and continuous improvement.
• Process Optimisation: Continuously enhance QA processes through retrospectives, automation expansion, and shift-left testing principles.
• Documentation: Maintain comprehensive documentation of test cases, strategies, bug reports, and quality incident postmortems.

Requirements:

• 5 - 10 years of QA experience in product-based startups, ideally in B2C environments.
• Proven expertise in test automation (e. g., Selenium, Appium, Cypress, Playwright, etc. ).
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, API testing, and test design principles.
• Hands-on experience with manual and exploratory testing.
• Ability to handle multiple projects independently and drive them to completion.
• High sense of ownership, accountability, and attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Willingness to work from the office (HSR Layout, Bangalore).