Senior QA Automation Engineer Location: India | Work Mode: On-site Employment Type: Full-time | Reports To: Engineering Manager ABOUT THE COMPANY Workpay is one of Africa's fastest-growing payroll solutions providers, helping global businesses hire, manage, and pay employees efficiently, legally, and compliantly across the continent. Our payroll, compliance, and workforce financial services platform simplifies payroll, compliance, advantages, and workforce administration, enabling organizations to focus on growth while ensuring employees are paid accurately and on time. Backed by leading global investors such as Visa, Norrsken22, Y Combinator, Acadian Ventures, Google for Startups, and Verod-Kepple, Workpay supports businesses operating in 30+ African countries. As we continue to expand our footprint across Africa and beyond, building the right team across markets is critical to sustaining our growth. ROLE OVERVIEW As a Senior QA Engineer, you will be the technical anchor for our quality engineering ecosystem.



This is a high-leverage role focused on building scalable test automation architectures, provisioning resilient test infrastructure, and solving bottlenecks that emerge as our test suites and engineering teams expand. You will balance a deep “think like an end-user” product mindset with the technical capability to “code like a developer.” Beyond framework architecture, you will troubleshoot complex backend flows, analyze regression impacts, and mentor junior engineers to champion a culture of technical excellence across the organization. The role will report to the Engineering Manager. WHAT YOU WILL OWN Core Framework Architecture : Design, build, and scale modular test automation frameworks from scratch across UI (Web) and API/microservices layers to support rapid product iteration. Backend & Async Troubleshooting : Validate complex data flows across synchronous and asynchronous architectures (REST APIs, GraphQL, Kafka, RabbitMQ) to isolate root causes. Impact

📌 Senior QA Automation Engineer (Karnataka)
🏢 Workpay
📍 Karnataka