Senior QA Tester ( Automation )

About the job

🚀 Hiring: Senior QA Automation Engineer

📍 Location: Ahmedabad

💼 Experience: 5+ Years

💰 CTC: Up to 18 LPA

🔹 About the Role

We are looking for a Senior QA Automation Engineer to own quality across an integration-heavy SaaS platform. You will work across UI/API automation, asynchronous testing, performance, security, manual testing, CI/CD, and AI-assisted testing.

🔑 Key Responsibilities

• Define and maintain test strategies across API, E2E, contract, performance, security, and manual testing.

• Build and maintain Playwright automation using TypeScript/JavaScript, Java, or Python.

• Perform API testing across REST, gRPC & GraphQL using Postman/Newman, REST Assured, or Playwright APIRequest.

• Test asynchronous/event-driven flows using RabbitMQ, SQS & Webhooks, including retries, ordering, idempotency, and DLQs.

• Execute JMeter load, stress, soak & spike testing and analyse performance metrics such as p95/p99 latency and throughput.

• Perform Security/VAPT testing using Burp Suite, OWASP ZAP, Nmap, Nikto & SQLMap.

• Implement AI-assisted testing, including AI test generation, Playwright MCP, Copilot, self-healing locators & LLM testing.

• Drive exploratory, risk-based, regression & UAT testing.

• Work with WireMock, LocalStack & Testcontainers for service virtualization and test data.

• Implement CI/CD quality gates using Jenkins, Bitbucket, Pact & OpenAPI/AsyncAPI.

• Monitor test coverage, flaky tests, defects & quality metrics, and mentor QA team members.

🛠️ Required Skills

-
Expert hands-on experience with Playwright for UI & API automation.

• Strong API testing experience with Postman/Newman, REST Assured or Playwright APIRequest.

• Hands-on experience with RabbitMQ/SQS, Webhooks & event-driven testing.

• Strong JMeter experience including correlation, parameterisation, distributed testing & result analysis.