Primary Responsibilities
- Framework Test Development
- Lead the design, development, and maintenance of scalable, reusable test automation frameworks for UI and API testing using Playwright, Python, PyTest, Requests Library, etc
- Develop comprehensive automated test suites following Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) principles and software design patterns (Page Object Model, Data-Driven Testing)
- Plan and execute all levels of testing: Smoke, Sanity, Functional, Integration, Regression, UAT, Security, and Usability Testing
- Create and maintain test data strategies, test workplace management, and cross-browser/cross-platform testing
- Create and maintain test metrics, reporting, and dashboard for quality visibility
- Perform comprehensive API testing using tools such as Insomnia, Postman, Requests Library, and Rest Assured
- Validate API contracts, response validation, and conduct security testing and OWASP vulnerability scanning
- Perform SQL and relational database testing, NoSQL database testing (MongoDB, DynamoDB), and message queue testing (Kafka)




- Conduct database assertions and data validation across systems
- Test microservices architecture and distributed system components
- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure Pipelines) and support continuous release validation activities
- Monitor test execution reports, analyze failures, and facilitate rapid feedback loops
- Collaborate on deployment strategies and production readiness assessments using Docker and containerization concepts
- Support Infrastructure-as-Code testing (Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Quality Assurance Collaboration
- Conduct defect triage, root cause analysis, risk assessment, and quality reporting using tools such as Jira and Azure Boards
- Collaborate with Development, DevOps, Product, and Business teams to ensure quality throughout the SDLC
- Establish quality gates, define acceptance criteria for releases, and support Agile/Scrum me

📌 Quality Engineering Lead (Bengaluru)
🏢 Optum
📍 Bengaluru