ABOUT THE ROLE:
We are looking for a Senior QA Automation Engineer to own quality across an integration-heavy platform, covering automation, API, asynchronous testing, performance, security, manual testing, and CI/CD quality.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Define and maintain test strategy across unit, contract, API, E2E, performance, security, and manual testing.
- Build and maintain Playwright automation using TypeScript/JavaScript, Java, or Python, including fixtures, authentication, parallel execution, trace viewer, and Allure.
- Perform API testing across REST, gRPC, and GraphQL using Postman/Newman, REST Assured, or Playwright APIRequest, including schema, authentication, negative scenarios, and contract testing.
- Test asynchronous flows using RabbitMQ, SQS, and webhooks, covering eventual consistency, ordering, idempotency, retries, and DLQs.
- Execute JMeter load, stress, soak, and spike testing and analyse p95/p99 latency, throughput, and bottlenecks. Exposure to k6/Gatling is a plus.
- Perform Security/VAPT testing using Burp Suite, OWASP ZAP, Nmap, Nikto, and SQLMap, covering OWASP Top 10 and API Top 10.
- Implement AI-assisted testing using AI test generation, Playwright MCP, Copilot, self-healing locators, visual AI, and LLM testing.
- Drive exploratory, risk-based, and UAT testing using BVA, equivalence partitioning, decision tables,



and state transitions.
- Work with WireMock, LocalStack, and Testcontainers for service virtualisation and test data.
- Implement CI/CD quality gates using Jenkins, Bitbucket, Pact, OpenAPI/AsyncAPI diff, and axe-core.
- Monitor flaky tests, defect lifecycle, quality metrics, and test coverage, while mentoring QA team members.

REQUIRED SKILLS:

- Expert hands-on experience with Playwright for UI/API automation.
- Strong API testing with Postman/Newman, REST Assured, or Playwright APIRequest.
- Hands-on RabbitMQ/SQS, webhooks, and event-driven testing.
- Expert JMeter experience including correlation, parameterisation, distributed testing, and result analysis.
- Hands-on Security/VAPT with Burp Suite, OWASP ZAP, Nmap, Nikto, and SQLMap.
- Hands-on AI-based testing and AI-assisted automation.
- Robust manual testing and test design knowledge.
- Hands-on TypeScript/JavaScript with Java or Python.
- Hands-on Jenkins, Bitbucket, and Allure.
- Strong SQL and data validation across databases, queues, and logs.

GOOD TO HAVE:

- Pact, Pact Broker, can-i-deploy, OpenAPI/AsyncAPI diffing.
- axe-core and WCAG 2.2 AA.
- AWS, SQS, S3, LocalStack, Kibana, and Zipkin.
- k6, Gatling, Toxiproxy, and chaos/resilience testing.
- ISTQB Advanced, CEH, eJPT, or OSCP.

📌 Senior QA Automation Engineer (Ahmedabad)
🏢 Mantras2Success
📍 Ahmedabad