Job Title
- Sr QA Automation Engineer (Senior) Job Location
- Chandigarh Pay Rate
- 25–40L Shift
- Not specified

Job Type

- On-site Position
- Full time

Job description
Role Summary We are seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer with 10+ years of experience to define automation strategy and lead quality engineering across complex applications and services. This hands-on role will architect scalable test frameworks, embed quality controls into delivery pipelines, and mentor engineers. Roles and Responsibilites:

Key Responsibilities

- Define enterprise test-automation strategy, architecture, standards, and quality metrics.
- Design frameworks for UI, API, integration, contract, and end-to-end testing.
- Embed automated quality gates into CI/CD pipelines and optimize test execution.
- Lead risk-based test planning, non-functional testing, defect analysis, and release-quality assessments.
- Improve test environments, data management, observability, and failure diagnostics.
- Partner with engineering leaders to build quality into design and development.
- Mentor QA and software engineers and lead complex quality initiatives.

Requirements:
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in quality engineering, test automation, or software engineering.




- Deep expertise with modern UI and API automation frameworks and at least one programming language.
- Proficiency in Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, or a comparable language.
- Experience designing scalable automation frameworks and integrating them with CI/CD.
- Strong knowledge of SQL, distributed systems, test architecture, performance testing, and production-quality practices.
- Demonstrated technical leadership, mentoring, and cross-functional influence. Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with cloud-native systems, containers, security testing, and service virtualization.
- Experience implementing test observability and quality dashboards.
- Relevant testing, development, or cloud certification. Experience Needed:
- 10+ years of experience in quality engineering, test automation, or software engineering.
- Deep expertise with modern UI and API automation frameworks and at least one programming language.
- Experience designing scalable automation frameworks and integrating them with CI/CD.
- Demonstrated technical leadership, mentoring, and cross-functional influence. Other Details: Success Measures
- Scalable automation and measurable improvements in release confidence.
- Reduced defect leakage, flaky tests, and execution time.
- Consistent quality standards and stronger engineering capability.

📌 Sr QA Automation Engineer (Chandigarh)
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