Job Summary

Location: Hyderabad, India Position: QE Automation L3 / Full Stack Quality Engineer

Experience: 5-8 Years

Role Type: Quality Engineering / Test Automation

Primary Focus: UI Automation, API Automation, Functional Testing, Quality Engineering

Role Overview

We are looking for a Full Stack Quality Engineer with strong hands-on experience in modern test automation and a customer-focused quality mindset. The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in Playwright-based UI automation, API automation, automation framework development, and modern engineering practices. The candidate should be capable of working across UI, API, functional, and technical testing and should contribute beyond test execution by driving defect prevention, automation efficiency, quality strategy, and overall product confidence.

The candidate should demonstrate strong problem-solving skills and the ability to understand end-to-end business flows and real customer journeys, rather than limiting testing to written requirements or acceptance criteria.

Responsibilities

- Design, develop, maintain, and execute reliable, reusable, scalable, and maintainable automation solutions.
- Build and enhance automation frameworks and test harnesses using Playwright, with preference for TypeScript or Java.
- Develop comprehensive UI automation covering critical customer journeys, functional scenarios, regression suites, and end-to-end workflows.
- Design and implement API automation for REST and other service-based interfaces.
- Develop and maintain automation solutions for Web, APIs/Services, and Database testing requirements.
- Create clean, modular, reusable, and maintainable automation code following software engineering best practices.
- Integrate automated tests with CI/CD pipelines and support automated execution as part of the software delivery lifecycle.
- Analyze automation failures, troubleshoot issues, and distinguish between automation defects and genuine product defects.
- Design test plans, test scenarios,



and test cases based on functional requirements, technical specifications, architecture, and business workflows.
- Participate in requirements, architecture, and design reviews, providing inputs from a Quality Engineering and testability perspective.
- Work closely with Developers, Product Owners, Architects, DevOps, and other stakeholders to ensure quality is built into the product throughout the SDLC.
- Participate actively in functional, system, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing activities.
- Review defects, identify root causes, and work with development teams to ensure timely resolution.
- Analyze production issues and convert production learnings into improved test coverage, automation, and defect-prevention strategies.
- Identify opportunities to improve test automation efficiency, coverage, maintainability, and execution time.
- Contribute to quality strategy, risk assessment, estimation, and release readiness.
- Review automation code and testing deliverables from team members and ensure adherence to defined QE standards and best practices.
- Provide technical guidance and support to junior QE engineers.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies, sprint planning, backlog refinement, retrospectives, and technical discussions.
- Act as a Quality Engineering advocate within the team and promote shift-left and continuous quality practices.
- Capture and analyze QE metrics to provide insights into automation coverage, quality trends, defects, and overall product confidence.

Mandatory Technical Skills

- Strong hands-on experience with Playwright is mandatory.
- Strong preference for candidates with Playwright + TypeScript experience.




- Strong understanding of Playwright architecture, locators, assertions, fixtures, hooks, parallel execution, reporting, and debugging.
- Experience designing and maintaining scalable Playwright automation frameworks.
- Ability to implement reusable automation components and utilities.

Programming

Candidates should demonstrate strong programming and automation skills in one of the following:
- Playwright + TypeScript / Java - Solid preference
- Playwright + Python - Acceptable

Preferred Skill Level:

- Playwright + TypeScript/Java: 10/10
- Playwright + Python: 8/10

TypeScript experience should receive preference as it aligns with our current automation direction.

API Automation

Strong experience in:
- REST API automation
- API validation and functional testing
- Request/response validation
- Authentication and authorization scenarios
- Negative and boundary testing
- API integration testing
- Basic understanding of contract testing

Experience with SOAP services is an advantage.

Git & Version Control

- Strong hands-on experience with Git and distributed version control systems.
- Expected proficiency: 10/10
- Experience with branching, merging, pull requests, code reviews, conflict resolution, and maintaining automation code in shared repositories.

CI/CD

- Experience integrating automated tests with CI/CD pipelines.
- Understanding of automated test execution as part of build and deployment pipelines.
- Experience analyzing failures from pipeline executions and troubleshooting automation issues.

Security Testing

The candidate should have a basic-to-good understanding of application security testing, including:
- Basic understanding of OWASP Top 10
- Common web application security vulnerabilities

Disclaimer: This job posting has been aggregated from external source. Role details, content, and availability are subject to change. Applicants are advised to confirm the latest information directly on the company website before applying.

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