Senior Quality Assurance Automation Engineer

Responsibilities

QA Engineer responsible for both manual and automation testing across web, APIs, and data platforms. The role involves designing, executing, and maintaining test assets across the SDLC / STLC, with a focus on Selenium WebDriver automation using Java, modern Java microservices (Spring Boot), and data engineering workloads :

• Analyze requirements, define test strategy, and create detailed test plans and test cases.
• Execute manual functional, regression, UI, cross-browser, and exploratory tests.
• Design, develop, and maintain Selenium WebDriver automation frameworks in Java (e.g., POM, data-driven).
• Build and maintain reliable, reusable, and parameterized test scripts; prioritize and optimize test coverage.
• Integrate automated tests with CI / CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins / GitHub Actions) and report results.
• Log, track, and validate defects; collaborate with developers for quick resolution.
• Perform API testing (Postman / RestAssured) and database validations using SQL.
• Prepare and manage test data and environments; ensure traceability to requirements.
• Contribute to sprint ceremonies; provide clear test metrics and quality risks.
• Test Java microservices and distributed systems : REST endpoints, messaging flows and eventdriven architectures (e.g., Validate service contracts and schemas (OpenAPI / Swagger, JSON Schema, Avro / Protobuf) including backward / forward compatibility.
• Design tests for distributed concerns : idempotency, retries / backoff, eventual consistency, saga / transaction flows, time-based logic.
• Plan and execute API and service performance tests using JMeter to baseline and regressions
• Basic security testing of auth flows (OAuth2 / OIDC)

Required Skills

Nice To Have

Qualifications

(ref : hirist.tech)

Skills Required

Git, Sql, Java, Selenium Webdriver, Swagger, Jira, Testrail, Maven, Grafana, Elk, Gradle, Kafka, TestNG, Appium, Aws, Prometheus, Azure, Junit, Docker, Gcp, Jmeter