Job Description

Key Responsibilities

- Drive the implementation of modern test automation frameworks and tools.
- Oversee test architecture, ensuring scalability and maintainability of automation solutions.
- Promote shift-left testing practices and support developers in embedding quality.
- Implementation of automation frameworks for middleware and backend service-based applications in critical infrastructure design.
- Designing and executing automated tests on the latest revisions of the software.
- Participating in the development of our automated testing framework, assisting our move towards automated testing in a CI/CD workplace.
- Interpreting requirements from existing manual test cases and specification documents.
Liaising with Manual Testers and / or Business Analysts to understand the requirements.
- Liaising with the product and development teams to ensure that our backlog is up to date
- Providing estimates regarding the test effort required to complete work.
- Raising bugs and liaising with the development team from discovery through to resolution
- Setting up and configuring the testing environment and associated database(s)
- Working with and communicating frequently with a DevOps team to ensure smooth product delivery from beginning to end.
- Preparing the test execution report and sharing it with stakeholders.





Required technical skills and experience

- Experience with C# / Java Script/ Type Script
- 8 to 12 years of experience in Test Automation using various tools such as Selenium, Playwright, Appium, Mocha etc
- Experience developing and executing automated test cases for User Interfaces
- Knowledge of software development in a web environment

Required soft skills and experience

- Clear and concise communicator
- Able to prioritise between several tasks at any one time
- Able to work independently and as part of a team
- Detailed and effective written communication skills for documenting the features tested and bugs found
- Highly organized, detail oriented, extremely responsive
- Be comfortable discussing technical aspects of projects with other testers, developers & business owners.

Desirable skills and experience

- Experience using Azure DevOps
- Experience using Selenium and Playwright or equivalent tools
- Usage of latest AI tools.
- Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines
- Experience testing User Interfaces and databases
- You'll have ISTQB/ISEB Foundation certifications or equivalent certifications or be working towards achieving them.
- Experience using virtual machines (Hyper V / Microsoft Azure)
- Experience coordinating with external/Offshore QA resources

📌 Associate Test Lead - Automation (Selenium, Playwright, Appium) (Mumbai)
🏢 NEC Software Solutions
📍 Mumbai