- We are seeking an experienced QA Automation Lead to guide and scale our testing efforts for critical software and custom applications developed across teams.
- In this role, you will take ownership of the team's QA strategy, delegate testing deliverables, and drive the implementation of robust API and UI test automation frameworks.
- You will work in a highly cooperative environment alongside developers, product managers, and business partners to ensure exceptional product reliability, performance, and data integrity.

Job Requirements:

- Lead, coordinate, and delegate daily testing deliverables across team members to align with project milestones.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for QA initiatives, effectively communicating test strategy, status, and risks to stakeholders.
- Work closely with business partners, product owners, and developers to establish API testing best practices and resolve technical blockers.
- Design, build, and maintain scalable test automation frameworks for APIs using RestAssured and Cucumber (BDD).
- Implement UI automation scripts using Selenium and modern framework standards.
- Integrate automated test suites into Jenkins CI/CD pipelines to ensure continuous execution and feedback loops.
- Perform end-to-end, functional, non-functional, black-box, white-box, system, and exploratory testing on APIs and custom web applications.
- Author, review,



and maintain structured test plans and detailed test cases directly within JIRA.
- Trace and log defects in JIRA, working alongside developers to investigate, isolate, and validate bug fixes.
- Document test strategies, best practices, and team workflows in Confluence.

Qualification and Requirements:

- Experience: 7+ years of hands-on software QA testing experience with proven team management or lead capabilities.
- API Testing: Demonstrated expertise in API automation using RestAssured and Cucumber.
- UI Automation: Hands-on experience developing UI test scripts using Selenium.
- CI/CD & Tools: Direct experience integrating test scripts into continuous integration pipelines using Jenkins.
- Agile Management Tools: Mastery of JIRA (for test management and issue tracking) and Confluence (for documentation).
- Methodologies: Expert knowledge of QA methodologies, including exploratory, functional, black box, and white box testing.
- Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills with experience presenting testing status to non-technical business partners.

Preferred:

- Prior domain experience in the Retail Industry.
- Hands-on testing experience with Point of Sale (POS) systems and integrated terminal software such as Oracle Xstore.

📌 Quality Assurance Automation Engineer (Hyderabad)
🏢 Denken Solutions,Inc
📍 Hyderabad