We’re Hiring: Lead QA Automation Engineer - Quality Engineering

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Location:
Trivandrum

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Experience:
9–12 Years

This is not a traditional QA leadership role.

We’re looking for a
Lead QA Automation Engineer
who thinks like a software engineer and is passionate about building quality into mission-critical banking software from the ground up.

In this role, you’ll shape
automation architecture, continuous testing, and quality engineering practices
for enterprise SaaS platforms operating in complex, regulated environments.

? The Mission

Move quality upstream — using
engineering, automation, data, and intelligent tooling
to prevent defects rather than simply detect them.

? What You’ll Do

• Define automation and Quality Engineering strategy for complex enterprise banking solutions

• Architect scalable automation frameworks across
APIs, backend services, integrations, and E2E workflows

• Embed automated quality gates into
CI/CD pipelines

• Lead API, database, event-driven, and integration testing

• Establish meaningful engineering metrics around
quality, risk,



and reliability

• Drive intelligent automation and continuous testing

• Partner closely with
Engineering, Product, Architecture, and Customer Enablement

• Mentor engineers and conduct technical/code reviews

• Improve
performance, resilience, scalability, and reliability testing

• Evaluate emerging
AI-enabled Quality Engineering
approaches that deliver measurable outcomes

? What We’re Looking For

We’re looking for professionals with
9–12 years of experience
in software quality/engineering, with deep automation expertise and a proven track record of
building automation frameworks—not simply operating them
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Robust experience across:

• Selenium / Playwright / Cypress or comparable frameworks

• API Automation / REST Assured / Postman

• SQL, backend and data validation

• CI/CD and continuous testing

• Azure DevOps / Jenkins / GitHub Actions

• Performance engineering

• Kafka and event-driven arch

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