Description

• Lead and drive end-to-end (E2E) testing activities covering Functional, Integration, System, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) across both web and mobile applications.

• Perform test planning, estimation, and scheduling for large and complex initiatives.

• Work effectively in an Agile environment, actively participating in sprint planning, stand-ups, backlog refinement, reviews, and retrospectives.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and third-party vendors to ensure successful execution of SIT and E2E testing.

• Bring a minimum of 5+ years of hands-on QA automation experience with strong expertise in web automation using Playwright or Selenium with Java/Cucumber or equivalent automation frameworks.

• Demonstrate strong functional testing experience across both web and native mobile (iOS/Android) applications, including test planning, execution, defect management, and end-to-end validation.

• Design, develop, maintain, and execute scalable automated test suites for web applications.

• Conduct API and service-level testing using tools such as Postman, Rest Assured, or equivalent open-source frameworks.

• Perform backend and database validations with hands-on experience in MongoDB Compass and SQL.

• Support production deployments, smoke testing, and release validation activities to ensure application stability.

• Drive UAT activities, including bug triage, defect reporting, prioritization, and tracking using JIRA or Azure DevOps (ADO).

• Demonstrate strong debugging and troubleshooting capabilities, including network-level analysis and log investigation.

• Utilize monitoring and observability platforms such as Kubernetes (K8s), Kibana, and Dynatrace for production validation and issue analysis.

• Partner closely with Development, Business Analysts (BA), Product Owners, UI/UX teams, and DevOps engineers to ensure high-quality deliverables.

• Coordinate effectively across onshore and offshore teams. • Exhibit excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.

• Maintain flexibility to overlap with onsite working hours (until noon, as needed). Generic Managerial Skills

• Ability to lead distributed QA / SDET teams across onsite and offshore models.

• Strong communication skills with business, technology, product, and leadership stakeholders.

• Capability to define QA approach, automation roadmap, governance, metrics, and delivery cadence.

• Ability to mentor Quality Engineers and review test cases, automation scripts, and defect quality.

• Strong ownership mindset with risk identification, dependency management, and proactive escalation.

• Experience in fast-paced Agile delivery with accountability for release readiness and quality outcomes.

• Hands-on experience with mobile automation frameworks such as Appium, Maestro for native iOS and Android applications.

• Experience with mobile application testing across multiple devices, operating systems, and screen sizes.

• Experience implementing automation in CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI, or similar).

• Knowledge of Node.js and JavaScript/TypeScript-based automation frameworks.

• Experience with responsive web testing, accessibility testing, and cross-browser compatibility testing.

• Hands-on experience building and maintaining API automation frameworks

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree