Job Title: Senior QA Engineer (Automation & Cloud Testing)

Experience: 4–6 Years

Role Overview

We are looking for a QA Engineer with 4–6 years of experience to drive quality across cloud-native applications. This role owns functional, automation, and end-to-end testing, while leveraging modern QA practices including AI-assisted testing and cloud validation. We're looking for a hands-on engineer who can independently design test plans, build automation, and ensure high-quality releases across distributed systems.

Key Responsibilities

- Analyze requirements and design test strategies, scenarios, and test cases
- Perform UI, API, integration, and system testing
- Lead defect triage, root cause analysis, and validation
- Design and develop robust automation frameworks; build scalable test suites (Selenium/PyCharm)
- Integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines; drive shift-left testing and increase automation coverage
- Own end-to-end (E2E) test coverage across microservices, APIs, and UI layers
- Validate real-world workflows across cloud, mobile, and backend systems
- Perform regression, release validation, and production sanity checks
- Validate microservices and APIs using tools like Postman/RestAssured
- Work with cloud platforms — AWS, GCP, or Azure; test deployments across Dev, QA, Staging,



Prod environments
- Understand containers (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes) basics
- Leverage AI tools (e.g., Cursor, GitHub Copilot) for test case generation, automation script optimization, debugging, and log analysis
- Explore intelligent test selection / self-healing automation
- Work in Agile/Scrum teams; collaborate with developers, product managers, and DevOps
- Participate in sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives

Required Qualifications

- Solid understanding of software testing methodologies
- Experience in manual automation testing
- Good knowledge of test design techniques and defect lifecycle
- Programming: Java / Python / JavaScript
- Automation: Selenium / Cypress / PyCharm
- API Testing: Postman / RestAssured
- CI/CD: Jenkins / GitHub Actions / GitLab CI
- Version Control: Git
- Hands-on exposure to a cloud platform (AWS/GCP/Azure)
- Basic understanding of microservices architecture, REST APIs, logging & monitoring tools

Candidate Profile

- Good to have: basic understanding of performance testing (JMeter, k6) and validating system reliability under load
- Comfortable working independently in Agile/Scrum environments
- Strong analytical and debugging mindset

📌 Senior QA Engineer (Automation & Cloud Testing) (Bengaluru)
🏢 SAM MANPOWER AND CAREER SERVICES
📍 Bengaluru