Ciklum
Automation and QA Principal Lead
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- India
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Principal
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Category
- Qa
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 8+ years of professional experience in QA Automation of Web and backend/API testing
- Experience using AI development tools (Claude) to accelerate script creation and maintenance
- Excellent knowledge of different testing methods, techniques, types, and methodologies
- Experience creating test documentation (test strategy, test plans, etc.)
- Experience in the creation of automation frameworks from scratch
- Experience in integrating test reporting (Allure or similar)
- Experience with BDD, ATDD, and TDD approaches
- Knowledge of testing framework such as PlaywrightJS / PuppeteerJS / WebdriverIO
- Experience with at least one of test runners: JasmineJS, MochaJS, Jest, AVA, Playwright
- Understanding of the event loop model in Javascript and async execution
- Good understanding of CSS and XPATH selectors syntax
- Experience with continuous integration processes at least one (Jenkins, Bitbucket CI/CD, Github Actions, teamcity, or similar)
- Experience of working with version control systems (e.g. GIT, SVN and others)
- Understanding of Agile/Scrum/Kanban.
- Experience with continuous integration processes and tools, CI/CD pipelines
- Good knowledge of AWS/Azure DevOps services
- Good Knowledge of SQL and no-SQL DBs (PostgreSQL, mongo, redis, etc.)
- Experience of working in an Agile Scrum/Kanban development environment
- Good English skills – Upper-Intermediate and above
- Strong level spoken and written proficiency in English
- Availability to work with 4 hours of overlap with the central US area
Full description
Ciklum is looking for an Senior Automation and QA Principal Lead to join our team full-time in India.
We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational organizations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live.
About the role:
As an Senior Automation and QA Principal Lead, become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experiences of tomorrow. Assess the current Automation suite and migrate them to Playwright and suitable technology.
Responsibilities:
- Architect test automation frameworks from scratch
- Develop automated functional UI tests & API/Service level tests
- Integrate automated scripts into the CI/CD process
- Develop, maintain, and expand automated testing infrastructure
- Devise and document test frameworks, coding standards, preferred design patterns, and development methodologies
- Ensure code quality with peer reviews to ensure guidelines and standards are followed
- Define Quality Metrics and implement measurements to determine test effectiveness, and testing efficiency, and measure the overall quality of the Product as a part of the test automation process
- Conclude and report about the quality of the product under test
- Collaborate with other members of the QA team to automate the manual test processes
- Manage, analyze, and mitigate testing risks
- Onboarding of new team members on the project
- Technical advice for the testing teams
Requirements:
- 8+ years of professional experience in QA Automation of Web and backend/API testing
- Experience using AI development tools (Claude) to accelerate script creation and maintenance
- Excellent knowledge of different testing methods, techniques, types, and methodologies
- Experience creating test documentation (test strategy, test plans, etc.)
- Experience in the creation of automation frameworks from scratch
- Experience in integrating test reporting (Allure or similar)
- Experience with BDD, ATDD, and TDD approaches
- Knowledge of testing framework such as PlaywrightJS / PuppeteerJS / WebdriverIO
- Experience with at least one of test runners: JasmineJS, MochaJS, Jest, AVA, Playwright
- Understanding of the event loop model in Javascript and async execution
- Good understanding of CSS and XPATH selectors syntax
- Experience with continuous integration processes at least one (Jenkins, Bitbucket CI/CD, Github Actions, teamcity, or similar)