- Ability to work with ambiguous requirements, identify gaps, uncover implicit business rules, and define comprehensive test coverage.

- Strong understanding of

BDD and experience collaborating with Product Owners and Developers to create executable specifications using

Cucumber/Gherkin

.

- Thorough understanding of

SDLC

, Agile methodologies, and quality engineering practices.

- Ability to define and implement product-level test strategies, test plans, and quality gates.

- Experience designing, developing, and maintaining scalable, configurable, and reusable test automation frameworks using

TypeScript, Playwright, and Cucumber

.

- Proficiency in utilizing test management and reporting tools such as

Jira, Zephyr, Confluence

, and automated reporting dashboards.

- Ability to participate in architecture and design discussions, ensuring solutions are testable, scalable, and maintainable.

- Experience defining and managing test data strategies across multiple environments.

- Strong root cause analysis skills for pre-production and production issues, with the ability to identify and close quality gaps.

- Ability to identify, communicate, and mitigate quality risks while driving continuous improvement initiatives.

- Experience validating deployments, monitoring application health, and supporting production quality through

Grafana, OpenSearch, and K9s

.

- Ability to collaborate with development, DevOps, and operations teams to troubleshoot complex issues and improve system reliability.





Software Development Tools

- Strong understanding of

Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)

principles.

- Experience implementing and maintaining automated test execution pipelines using

GitLab CI/CD

.

- Ability to design automation solutions for UI, API, integration, and end-to-end testing.

- Experience enhancing frameworks, tooling, and processes to improve automation efficiency and quality outcomes.

- Strong experience with source control management using

Git and collaborative development practices.

Technologies and Standards

- 7-11 years of experience

- Strong proficiency in

TypeScript for automation development.

- Expertise in

Playwright for UI and End-to-End testing.

- Hands-on experience with

Cucumber/Gherkin for Behaviour Driven Development (BDD).

- Strong API testing skills using

Postman

,

Swagger/OpenAPI

, and Playwright API capabilities.

- Experience validating REST APIs, service integrations, authentication, and business workflows.

- Robust SQL and data validation experience using

Oracle SQL Developer and

MySQL

.

- Experience working with

JSON data structures and API payload validation.

- Knowledge of application deployment, monitoring, and observability practices.

- Experience using

Grafana

,

OpenSearch

, and

K9s for monitoring, troubleshooting, and deployment validation.

- Experience using

Jira

,

Zephyr

, and

Confluence for test management, documentation, and reporting.

📌 Senior Software Test Engineer (Typescript, Playwright) (Pune)
🏢 Nielseniq
📍 Pune