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 clear 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.

Required Skill Profession

Other General

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