{"id":1587065,"url":"https://alion.io/job/workpay-senior-qa-automation-engineer","title":"Senior QA Automation Engineer","company":{"id":57622,"name":"Workpay","domain":"myworkpay.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/workpay","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":true,"employer_type":"agency","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Manatal","truth_index":null},"role":"QA","role_family":"QA","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"explicit","locations":["Bengaluru, India"],"countries":["IN"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":13000,"max_usd":32000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":20},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Apache Kafka","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Cypress","optional":false},{"name":"Datadog","optional":false},{"name":"Docker","optional":false},{"name":"Gatling","optional":false},{"name":"GitHub Actions","optional":false},{"name":"GitLab CI","optional":false},{"name":"Go","optional":false},{"name":"Grafana","optional":false},{"name":"GraphQL","optional":false},{"name":"Java","optional":false},{"name":"Jenkins","optional":false},{"name":"JMeter","optional":false},{"name":"k6","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"Playwright","optional":false},{"name":"Prometheus","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"RabbitMQ","optional":false},{"name":"Rest API","optional":false},{"name":"Rest-Assured","optional":false},{"name":"Selenium","optional":false},{"name":"Shift-Left","optional":false},{"name":"Shift-Left Security","optional":false},{"name":"SQL","optional":false},{"name":"TypeScript","optional":false},{"name":"Applitools","optional":true},{"name":"Claude Code","optional":true},{"name":"Copilot","optional":true},{"name":"Cursor","optional":true},{"name":"OWASP Top 10","optional":true},{"name":"Pact","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-01T15:14:05Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-01","last_verified_at":"2026-10-13T07:21:30Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":11,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":11},"description":"Senior QA Automation Engineer\nLocation:India| Work Mode:On-site\nEmployment Type:Full-time| Reports To:Engineering Manager\nABOUT THE COMPANY\nWorkpay is one of Africa's fastest-growing payroll solutions providers, helping global businesses hire, manage, and pay employees efficiently, legally, and compliantly across the continent. Our payroll, compliance, and workforce financial services platform simplifies payroll, compliance, benefits, and workforce administration, enabling organizations to focus on growth while ensuring employees are paid accurately and on time.\nBacked by leading global investors such as Visa, Norrsken22, Y Combinator, Acadian Ventures, Google for Startups, and Verod-Kepple, Workpay supports businesses operating in 30+ African countries. As we continue to expand our footprint across Africa and beyond, building the right team across markets is critical to sustaining our growth.\nROLE OVERVIEW\nAs a Senior QA Engineer, you will be the technical anchor for our quality engineering ecosystem. This is a high-leverage role focused on building scalable test automation architectures, provisioning resilient test infrastructure, and solving bottlenecks that emerge as our test suites and engineering teams expand.\nYou will balance a deep “think like an end-user” product mindset with the technical capability to “code like a developer.” Beyond framework architecture, you will troubleshoot complex backend flows, analyze regression impacts, and mentor junior engineers to champion a culture of technical excellence across the organization. The role will report to the Engineering Manager.\nWHAT YOU WILL OWN\n Core Framework Architecture: Design, build, and scale modular test automation frameworks from scratch across UI (Web) and API/microservices layers to support rapid product iteration.\n Backend & Async Troubleshooting: Validate complex data flows across synchronous and asynchronous architectures (REST APIs, GraphQL, Kafka, RabbitMQ) to isolate root causes.\nImpact & Regression Analysis: Conduct rigorous structural impact analysis on code changes to map system dependencies, ensuring product quality is maintained with zero regression impact.\nCustomer Triage & Solutions: Lead the technical triaging of complex, escalated customer issues, diving into system logs and databases to propose structural solutions.\n Performance & Load Testing: Design and execute scalable load, stress, and endurance test suites (using k6, JMeter, or Gatling) to uncover architectural bottlenecks and guarantee system reliability under peak traffic.\n Test Infrastructure & Scale: Provision, configure, and maintain robust distributed test environments using containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) to enable seamless, parallel test execution.\nPipeline Monitoring & Reliability: Implement telemetry, health dashboards, and alerting for test infrastructure and CI/CD runs to proactively eliminate flaky tests and pipeline slowdowns.\nMentorship & Technical Leadership: Guide and upskill junior QA engineers through structured code reviews, architectural guidance, paired programming, and test design workshops.\nShift-Left Quality Advocacy: Collaborate directly with backend and DevOps engineers during system design phases to ensure service testability and observability.\nEXPERIENCE\n Core Programming: Advanced proficiency in at least one modern language (e.g., Go, Java, Python, or TypeScript).\n Test Frameworks: Deep experience building Web and API automation from the ground up using modern frameworks (e.g., Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, RestAssured, or Karate).\n Distributed Systems & Event Validation: Proven experience validating message queues / event-driven pipelines (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ) and debugging asynchronous workflows.\n Database Proficiency: Strong querying and diagnostic skills across both relational (SQL) and non-relational (NoSQL) databases.\nPerformance Engineering: Hands-on experience designing and executing performance suites using tools like k6, JMeter, or Gatling.\n Infrastructure & Orchestration: Practical experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and containerized execution grids (e.g., Selenoid, Playwright Grid, or cloud farms).\n CI/CD & Observability: Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins) and monitoring tools (e.g., Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus).\nNICE TO HAVE\n Specialized Testing Domains: Familiarity with Security testing concepts (OWASP Top 10, vulnerability scanning), Accessibility testing standard practices (WCAG compliance, AXE, Screen readers), and Visual regression testing tools (Applitools, Percy).\nPrior experience building in-house test infrastructure platforms or developer-productivity tooling.\nStrong background in contract testing (e.g., Pact) and chaos/resilience testing patterns.\nFamiliarity with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or Claude Code) to accelerate boilerplate generation and documentation while maintaining high code integrity.\nWHAT WE OFFER\n Competitive, incentive-based remuneration, health cover, and gym membership.\nPurpose driven work. We are building the rails for employment payments and compliance across Africa, helping drive economic growth and development.\nCareer advancement through constant opportunities for learning and growth.\nWorking in a flexible, vibrant team environment.\n\nWorkpay is an equal-opportunity employer. We welcome applications from qualified candidates regardless of race, religion, gender, nationality, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5538,"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":["Gym membership"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"India","iso":"IN","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-01T15:14:05Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":50,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.503,"p_room":1,"age_days":11,"expected_fill_days":36,"reasons":["conf:1","agency","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-13T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/workpay-senior-qa-automation-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/workpay-senior-qa-automation-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-13T09:55:25Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":15051,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-14T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":57622},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=57622"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fworkpay-senior-qa-automation-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fworkpay-senior-qa-automation-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fworkpay-senior-qa-automation-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/workpay-senior-qa-automation-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fworkpay-senior-qa-automation-engineer"}]}