Description
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 recent team members on the project
- Technical advice for the testing teams

Requirements:
- 8+ years of qualified 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

📌 Automation and QA Principal Lead (India)
🏢 Ciklum
📍 India