{"id":1144461,"url":"https://alion.io/job/weekday-lead-qa-automation-engineer","title":"Lead QA Automation Engineer","company":{"id":7097,"name":"Weekday","domain":"weekday.works","url":"https://alion.io/company/weekday","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":true,"is_intermediary":false,"ats_vendor":"Workable","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":81,"open_postings":88,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.977,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":5,"computed_at":"2026-09-23T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"QA","role_family":"QA","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"explicit","locations":["Delhi, India"],"countries":["IN"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":26000,"max_usd":73000,"period":"year","method":"global_role_cell_scaled_by_country","sample_n":154},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Apache Kafka","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"Azure DevOps","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Cypress","optional":false},{"name":"GitHub Actions","optional":false},{"name":"Jenkins","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"Playwright","optional":false},{"name":"Postman","optional":false},{"name":"Rest-Assured","optional":false},{"name":"Selenium","optional":false},{"name":"SQL","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-23T14:12:16Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-23","last_verified_at":"2026-09-23T19:23:51Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"'\n: - ( - )\nExperience: 9+ yrs\nLocation: India\nJob Type: Full-time\nWe are looking for an experienced Senior QA Automation Engineer with 9+ years of experience in software quality engineering and a strong track record of building scalable automation frameworks rather than simply operating existing test suites.\nThe role requires deep expertise across UI automation, API testing, backend validation, CI/CD, performance engineering, event-driven systems, and cloud-native applications. You will play a key role in establishing robust quality engineering practices, improving test automation coverage, and embedding continuous testing throughout the software development lifecycle.\nThe ideal candidate will combine strong hands-on engineering capabilities with the ability to design maintainable automation architecture and drive quality improvements across complex software systems.\nRequirements\nKey Responsibilities\nDesign, build, and maintain scalable test automation frameworks for complex software applications.\nDevelop robust UI automation using Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, or comparable frameworks.\nBuild automated API and integration tests using tools such as Rest Assured, Postman, or equivalent technologies.\nDevelop comprehensive test strategies covering functional, regression, integration, API, data, and end-to-end testing.\nImplement backend and database validation using SQL and other data-validation techniques.\nIntegrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous testing and rapid quality feedback.\nWork with Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar CI/CD platforms to automate test execution and reporting.\nIdentify opportunities to improve automation coverage, reliability, execution speed, and maintainability.\nDesign reusable automation components, utilities, libraries, and frameworks that can scale across products and teams.\nPerform root-cause analysis of test failures and collaborate with engineering teams to resolve defects and quality issues.\nDevelop testing approaches for event-driven and distributed systems, including Kafka-based applications.\nContribute to performance engineering, including performance testing, bottleneck identification, and system behaviour analysis.\nValidate cloud-native applications and services deployed across environments such as Azure and Kubernetes.\nEstablish quality gates and automated validation within software delivery pipelines.\nCollaborate with developers and technical teams to shift testing earlier in the development lifecycle.\nMaintain automation standards, technical documentation, test strategies, and engineering best practices.\nContinuously evaluate emerging testing tools and technologies to improve quality engineering effectiveness.\nWhat Makes You a Great Fit\n9-12 years of experience in software quality engineering, QA automation, or a closely related engineering role.\nProven experience building automation frameworks from the ground up, not just executing or maintaining existing frameworks.\nStrong hands-on expertise with Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, or comparable automation frameworks.\nStrong experience with API automation, including Rest Assured, Postman, or similar tools.\nStrong SQL skills and experience performing backend, database, and data validation.\nSolid understanding of CI/CD and continuous testing practices.\nHands-on experience with Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or equivalent CI/CD technologies.\nExperience with performance engineering and performance testing.\nStrong understanding of distributed systems and Kafka/event-driven architectures.\nExperience testing cloud-native applications, preferably within Azure and Kubernetes environments.\nStrong understanding of software testing methodologies, automation architecture, test strategy, and quality engineering principles.\nExcellent debugging, analytical, and root-cause analysis skills.\nStrong programming and scripting capabilities for developing maintainable automation solutions.\nAbility to collaborate effectively with developers, DevOps engineers, product teams, and other technical stakeholders.\nStrong ownership mindset with the ability to independently drive automation and quality initiatives.\nExcellent communication skills and the ability to explain complex technical quality issues clearly.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4293,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"India","iso":"IN","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-23T14:12:16Z"}],"liveness":{"score":52,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.516,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":5,"reasons":["conf:0","agency","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-09-23T20:23:09Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/weekday-lead-qa-automation-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/weekday-lead-qa-automation-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-23T20:23:09Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers"}}