Senior QA Automation Engineer – Service Layer / QTC Platform Role Details
• Role: Senior QA Automation Engineer
•

Experience:
7+ years
• Relevant Automation

Experience:
4+ years
• Primary

Skills:
Test Automation, API Testing, Microservices Testing, Kafka/MSK, AWS, SQL, CI/CD
• Domain Exposure: Quote-to-Cash, Customer Lifecycle, Enterprise Integrations preferred
• Location / Mode: Bengaluru
- Hybrid
• Budget: 15 LPA
• Contract Duration: 12 months Role Overview We are looking for a strong, hands-on, and highly motivated Senior QA Automation Engineer to ensure the quality, reliability, and performance of the Service Layer (SL-QTC) platform supporting Quote-to-Cash (QTC), customer lifecycle, and enterprise integration workloads. The role involves designing, developing, and maintaining automation frameworks and quality engineering practices for a cloud-native, event-driven platform built on AWS, Kafka/MSK, APIs, databases, and distributed microservices. The ideal candidate should have strong automation expertise along with hands-on experience testing distributed systems, event-driven architectures, cloud-native applications, APIs, data flows, and complex enterprise integrations.

Key Responsibilities
Test Automation & Quality Engineering
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable test automation frameworks for APIs, microservices, event-driven workflows, and cloud-native applications.
• Build automated test suites covering:
• Functional testing
• Integration testing
• Regression testing
• End-to-end testing
• Data validation testing
• Develop quality engineering practices to support early defect detection and high-quality releases. API, Microservices & Integration Testing
• Perform automated API testing, contract testing, service virtualization, and integration testing across enterprise applications and services.
• Validate REST APIs, asynchronous workflows, message queues, service integrations, and downstream system interactions.
• Ensure test coverage across complex Quote-to-Cash business processes and enterprise integration flows. Kafka / MSK & Event-Driven Testing
• Validate Kafka / AWS MSK event flows, message transformations, canonical data models, and event orchestration workflows.
• Test schema evolution, message contracts, topic-level behavior, error handling, retry logic, and downstream consumption.




• Ensure reliability of event-driven workflows across distributed services. Database & Data Validation
• Develop automated data validation and reconciliation tests across:
• PostgreSQL
• ClickHouse
• DynamoDB
• Other platform data stores
• Validate database transactions, data transformations, data consistency, and reconciliation outputs.
• Write and optimize SQL queries for testing, troubleshooting, and verification. CI/CD & Shift-Left Testing
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or similar platforms.
• Collaborate with Engineering and DevOps teams to enable continuous testing, quality gates, and shift-left practices.
• Contribute to release readiness criteria and quality metrics. Non-Functional Testing
• Perform performance, load, reliability, resiliency, and scalability testing for distributed systems.
• Use tools such as JMeter, K6, Gatling, or equivalent solutions.
• Identify bottlenecks and support engineering teams in improving platform performance and reliability. Defect Analysis & Reporting
• Analyze defects, troubleshoot complex issues, perform root cause analysis, and drive quality improvements.
• Create test reports, dashboards, and quality metrics using tools such as Allure, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch, ClickHouse, or similar platforms.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to continuously improve test coverage, automation frameworks, and release processes. Must-Have Skills Automation & Programming
• Strong experience designing and developing test automation frameworks using one or more of the following:
• Java
• Python
• TypeScript
• Similar programming languages API Automation Testing
• Strong hands-on experience with API automation tools/frameworks such as:
• REST Assured
• Postman
• Karate
• PyTest
• Selenium
• Playwright
• Equivalent automation technologies Microservices & Event-Driven Architecture Testing
• Strong experience testing:
• Microservices
• Distributed systems




• Event-driven architectures
• Kafka / AWS MSK
• RabbitMQ or similar messaging platforms
• Experience validating asynchronous workflows, message queues, event transformations, and enterprise integrations. Database Testing
• Strong experience with:
• PostgreSQL
• Relational databases
• NoSQL databases
• SQL query development
• Database testing
• Data validation techniques AWS & Cloud-Native Testing
• Experience testing AWS cloud-native and serverless applications using services such as:
• Lambda
• API Gateway
• S3
• DynamoDB
• RDS
• SQS
• SNS
• CloudWatch CI/CD & DevOps
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines using:
• GitLab CI
• Jenkins
• Azure DevOps
• Equivalent platforms Performance & Observability
• Experience with performance and reliability testing tools such as:
• JMeter
• K6
• Gatling
• Experience with quality reporting and observability tools such as:
• Allure
• Grafana
• Datadog
• CloudWatch
• ClickHouse Required Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
• 7+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance, Test Automation, or Quality Engineering.
• 4+ years of experience developing and maintaining automated testing solutions for enterprise applications and APIs.
• Strong experience testing cloud-native, distributed, and event-driven systems in production-scale environments.
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments with cross-functional engineering teams.
• Robust understanding of:
• Test strategy
• Test design
• Defect management
• Root cause analysis
• Agile testing practices
• Quality engineering principles Nice to Have
• Certifications such as:
• ISTQB
• Certified Agile Tester
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
• Equivalent QA / Cloud certifications
• Experience implementing shift-left testing, test quality metrics, and quality gates within CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience testing enterprise platforms such as:
• Salesforce
• Oracle ERP
• OIC
• ORMB
• Enterprise integration platforms
• Strong experience validating Kafka/MSK event streams, schema evolution, message contracts, and event orchestration workflows.

📌 Senior QA Automation Engineer – Service Layer (India)
🏢 TALPRO INDIA PRIVATE
📍 India