IND Lead Quality Engineer - GCC025 We're determined to make a difference and are proud to be an insurance company that goes well beyond coverages and policies. Working here means having every opportunity to achieve your goals - and to help others accomplish theirs, too. Join our team as we help shape the future. **Position Overview** We are seeking a skilled **QA Automation Engineer** to join our Enterprise Digital Solutions team in **Hyderabad, India** . In this role, you will design, build, and maintain reliable automated tests across UI and API layers, embed quality checks into CI/CD, and partner with Engineering and Product to prevent defects early. You'll contribute to scalable test architecture using **Playwright** with **TypeScript/JavaScript** and help improve test stability, coverage, and release confidence. **Key Responsibilities** **Test Automation Development** + Develop andmaintainautomated test suites for critical user journeys (smoke, regression, end-to-end). + Create maintainable UI automation using **Playwright** and **TypeScript/JavaScript** (reusable fixtures, selectors, and page abstractions). + Build and enhance API automation (request validation, data setup/teardown, and basic contract checks where applicable). + Analyze failures, triage defects, and collaborate with engineers toidentifyroot causes and preventregressions. **Framework & CI/CD Integration** + Contribute to and continuously improve the Playwright automation framework (structure, utilities, reporting, and test patterns). + Implement scalable execution capabilities such as parallelization, setting orchestration,



and reliable test data management. + Integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines (PR validation and nightly runs), with transparent reporting and quality gates to support fast, reliable releases. + Leverage AI/LLM tooling (where approved) to accelerate test case authoring, refactoring, and failure triage (log/trace summarization). + Follow responsible AI and data-handling guidelines; collaborate with Security/Platform teams to ensure compliant use of AI-enabled testing. + Contribute ideas and small proofs-of-concept to improve test intelligence (failure clustering, flaky detection), as needed. **Collaboration** + Partnerwith engineers, product owners, and DevOps to clarify acceptance criteria and ensure testability of requirements. + Participate in code reviews for automation and share best practices for stable, maintainable tests. + Promote shift-left quality by adding automation early in the lifecycle and providing fast feedback to the team. **Quality Engineering & Governance** + Define automation scope for critical business journeys and ensure coverage for new/changed features. + Track and report quality metrics (pass rate, stability/flakiness, defect leakage) and propose improvements.



+ Communicate test status, risks, and release readiness to stakeholders with clear, actionable information. **Required** **Skills & Experience** + 5-7 years of hands-on experience in test automation for web (and/or mobile) applications, including designing andmaintainingautomation frameworks. + Strongproficiencyin **TypeScript/JavaScript** . + Expertisein architecting and scaling cross-platform test execution using **BrowserStack** **SDK/Automate** in CI/CD environments + Deep experience integrating automation into **CI/CD pipelines** . + Practical experience using or operationalizing **AI/LLM-based testing tools** . + Familiarity with agent-based testing concepts and orchestration patterns (e.g., MCP or similar) is a plus. + Ability to influence quality outcomes through strong collaboration, clear communication, and pragmatic decision-making. + Experience making architecture-level automation decisions in complex environments. + Strong system-thinking mindset with the ability to balance speed, quality, and risk. + Strong background in Agile, DevOps, and continuous testing practices. + Experience supporting cloud-native, microservices, and API-driven systems. **Preferred Qualifications** + Experience in enterprise-scale or regulated environments. + Exposure to CIAM, security testing, or identity-centric platforms. + Prior experience driving quality transformation or modernization initiatives. + Familiarity with observability, analytics, and test intelligence platforms.

📌 Lead / SDET (Hyderabad)
🏢 The Hartford
📍 Hyderabad