Ciklum is looking for an Senior Automation and QA Principal Lead to join our
team full time in India.

We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational
organizations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business
challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers,
consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines
industries and shapes the way people live.

About the role:

As an Senior Automation and QA Principal Lead, become a part of a
cross-functional development team engineering experiences of tomorrow. Assess
the current Automation suite and migrate them to Playwright and suitable
technology.

Responsibilities:

* Architect test automation frameworks from scratch
* Develop automated functional UI tests & API/Service level tests
* Integrate automated scripts into the CI/CD process
* Develop, maintain, and expand automated testing infrastructure
* Devise and document test frameworks, coding standards, preferred design
patterns, and development methodologies




* Ensure code quality with peer reviews to ensure guidelines and standards are
followed
* Define Quality Metrics and implement measurements to determine test
effectiveness, and testing efficiency, and measure the overall quality of the
Product as a part of the test automation process
* Conclude and report about the quality of the product under test
* Collaborate with other members of the QA team to automate the manual test
processes
* Manage, analyze, and mitigate testing risks
* Onboarding of new team members on the project
* Technical advice for the testing teams

Requirements:

* 8+ years of professional experience in QA Automation of Web and backend/API
testing
* Experience using AI development tools (Claude) to accelerate script creation
and maintenance
* Excellent knowledge of different testing methods, techniques, types, and
methodologies
* Experience creating test documentation (test strategy, test plans, etc.)
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📌 Automation and QA Principal Lead (India)
🏢 Ciklum
📍 India