Advanced Software Engr

We are looking for an experienced Senior Test Automation Engineer with 7+ years of hands-on experience in software testing, with strong expertise in both Test Automation and Functional Testing.

The ideal candidate will have demonstrated experience designing and developing scalable automation solutions using technologies such as Selenium, Playwright, Python, TypeScript, and Java. The candidate should be comfortable working in an Agile product development environment and collaborating closely with Development, QA/Test, Product, and DevOps teams throughout the software development lifecycle.

This is a hands-on engineering role requiring strong technical skills, quality ownership, analytical thinking, and excellent communication.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, maintain, and enhance automated test frameworks and test suites for web and enterprise applications.
• Develop reliable and maintainable automation using Selenium and/or Playwright.
• Write automation code using Python, TypeScript, and/or Java.
• Perform functional, integration, regression, system, and end-to-end testing as required.
• Analyze product requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and technical designs to identify appropriate test coverage.
• Develop comprehensive Test Strategies, Test Plans, test scenarios, and test cases based on functional and technical requirements.
• Define the appropriate balance between automated and manual/functional testing based on risk, complexity, and business impact.
• Identify opportunities to improve automation coverage, test execution efficiency, reliability, and defect detection.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and work with tools such as GitHub and GitHub Actions.
• Investigate automation failures, perform root-cause analysis, and distinguish between application defects, environment issues, test-data issues, and automation defects.
• Participate actively in Agile ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives.
• Collaborate effectively with Developers, Test Engineers, Product Owners/Product Managers, and DevOps Engineers to ensure quality throughout the development lifecycle.
• Participate in defect triage and communicate quality risks, dependencies, blockers, and release-readiness concerns clearly to stakeholders.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of the team's testing processes, automation architecture, coding standards, and overall quality engineering practices.
• Use modern AI-assisted engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot to improve engineering productivity while following appropriate code-review, security, and quality practices.
• Mentor and support other test engineers by sharing automation and quality engineering best practices.

Required Skills & Experience

• 7+ years of professional experience in Software Testing / Quality Engineering, including significant hands-on experience in automation.
• Strong expertise in Test Automation and automation framework development.
• Strong hands-on experience with Selenium and/or Playwright.
• Strong programming/scripting skills in at least one of the following:
  • Python
  • TypeScript
  • Java
• Strong experience in Functional Testing, including requirements analysis, test design, test execution, defect identification, and regression testing.
• Experience designing and documenting a comprehensive Test Strategy for a product, application, release, or major feature.
• Good understanding of SDLC, STLC, Agile, and Scrum practices.
• Experience working within Agile/Scrum teams and delivering quality software across multiple sprints/releases.
• Hands-on experience with Git and GitHub for source-control and collaborative development.
• Experience with GitHub Actions or equivalent CI/CD solutions for automated test execution.
• Exposure to GitHub Copilot or other AI-assisted software engineering/testing tools.
• Ability to analyze automation failures and debug issues across application, automation, API, test-data, and environment layers.
• Good understanding of test design techniques, defect lifecycle, regression strategy, risk-based testing, and test coverage.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively across Development, QA, Product, and DevOps teams.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate technical issues and quality risks clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred / Good-to-Have Skills

• Experience with API testing and API automation, for example REST APIs.
• Experience integrating test automation into CI/CD pipelines.
• Understanding of modern automation patterns such as Page Object Model, fixtures, reusable test components, test-data management, and parallel execution.
• Experience with test reporting and automated quality metrics.
• Exposure to testing applications deployed using cloud and containerized environments.
• Experience using AI-assisted tools for test-case generation, automation-code development, code review, debugging, or test analysis.
• Experience mentoring junior engineers or providing technical guidance on test automation.
• Familiarity with non-functional quality considerations such as performance, security, accessibility, reliability, and usability testing would be an advantage.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related engineering discipline from a recognised institution.

What We Are Looking For

The successful candidate should be a hands-on Senior Test Engineer, not someone focused only on test coordination or management. We are looking for someone who:

• Can write automation code, not just execute automated suites.
• Has strong functional testing fundamentals in addition to automation expertise.
• Can independently define a test strategy and approach for complex features.
• Understands quality throughout the complete software development lifecycle.
• Can identify what should be automated and what requires exploratory or functional testing.
• Is comfortable reviewing requirements and challenging gaps in acceptance criteria and testability.
• Can work closely with developers to identify defects early rather than relying only on end-of-sprint testing.
• Can collaborate with Product teams to understand customer/business expectations and with DevOps teams to enable reliable automated testing within CI/CD.
• Demonstrates ownership, technical depth, attention to detail, and a quality-first mindset.
• Communicates clearly, constructively, and confidently across cross-functional teams.