- Experience leading QA teams or acting as a test/automation lead across multiple releases.
- Expertise in building reusable automation components, applying design patterns, and improving framework maintainability.
- Experience with test execution and reporting practices that improve visibility and decision-making for releases.
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence quality outcomes across cross-functional teams.
- Exposure to performance and API testing concepts and integrating automation into modern delivery pipelines. Strong hands-on experience with Playwright (minimum 3 years) for UI test automation, including test creation, execution, and maintenance.
- Proficiency in TypeScript (or strong JavaScript with willingness to work in TypeScript) for writing clean, modular, and reusable test automation code.
- Solid understanding of automation testing concepts including test design techniques, test data management, and defect lifecycle.
- Lead QA strategy and execution across projects, ensuring robust automated testing coverage and release readiness.
- Design, develop, and maintain Java-based Selenium automation frameworks aligned with best practices and long-term scalability.
- Define test plans, test cases, and automation suites for functional, regression, and smoke testing across applications.
- Review automation code, enforce quality standards, and drive improvements in test design, stability, and execution speed.
- Collaborate with engineering and product teams to clarify requirements, identify risks early, and ensure testability of features.
- Analyze test results, troubleshoot failures, and provide clear defect reports with reproducible steps and evidence.
- Mentor and guide QA engineers, supporting skill development, task planning, and consistent delivery across the team.
- Track quality metrics and communicate status, risks, and recommendations to stakeholders in a timely manner. Design and implement automation frameworks using Playwright with TypeScript/JavaScript for web and API testing, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and reusability.
- Develop, execute, and maintain automated test suites for functional, regression, smoke, and integration testing across multiple applications and environments.
- Collaborate with cross functional teams (developers, product owners, business analysts) to understand requirements, define acceptance criteria, and translate them into effective automated test scenarios.
- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines using Git-based workflows, ensuring fast feedback and reliable build quality gates.
- Perform API testing using Rest Assured or equivalent tools, validating request/response flows, status codes, and data integrity.
- Conduct database testing by writing and executing queries to validate data consistency, transformations, and back-end logic.