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Senior Quality Assurance Engineer (Automation)


Company : Intellias


Location : Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala


Created : 2025-05-02


Job Type : Full Time


Job Description

As a seasoned Quality Assurance Engineer specializing in automation and cutting-edge software testing methodologies, you play a pivotal role in upholding the highest quality standards within your team. By leveraging advanced tooling and coding techniques, you seamlessly integrate automation testing into every team member's daily workflow. Through close collaboration with cross-functional teams, you drive the implementation of new features and enhancements, ultimately enhancing the experience for over 12 million customers.The profile demands knowledge in test automation for both front-end and back-end skills, where one will be acting upon defining most suitable test strategy across both categories of applications.A much stronger understanding of back-end architectures (rest API validations, mocking mechanisms, event-driven architectures in a micro-service ecosystem, and asynchronous processing) is generally desired.Responsibility:As our Expert Quality Assurance Engineer, you embrace the following responsibilities: Take ownership and responsibility for the design and development of all aspects of testing.Work on acceptance criteria and test scenarios with the Product Owner and development team.Design, execute, and maintain test scenarios and automation capabilities for all test levels and types (e.g., automated, regression, exploratory, etc.).Create and optimise test frameworks and integrate them into deployment pipelines.Participate in the code review process for both production and test code to ensure all critical cases are covered.Monitoring test runs, application errors and performance.Making information flow, keeping the team informed and being a stakeholder in releases and defect tracking.Share the best testing and quality practices and processes.Promote and coach the team towards a quality-focused mindset.Influence and lead the team towards continuous improvement and best testing practices.Be the reference of the QA Center of Practice, promoting their practices and influencing their strategy, bringing your team experience into their plan.Requirements:As a Senior/Expert Quality Assurance Engineer, you must be able to provide among these:Knowledge of software testing theory.Comfortable in developing test automation frameworks from scratch and maintaining existing frameworks.5+ years of experience in software testing, manual, and automated testingStrong experience in different testing practices (from unit to load to endurance to cross-platform), specifically integrated within CI/CD.Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and monitoring tools (e.g., Jenkins, Kibana, Grafana, etc.).Knowledge with Bitbucket, K8s, DockerStrong experience in Java, its test-related frameworks (e.g. Junit, TestNG), and reporting tools such as Allure.Knowledge of API testing, contract testing, non-functional testing, REST protocol, and microservice architectureExperience in the Tools below is favourableTestRailGatlingRest AssuredPactKnowledge of SQL for relational databases and Object-relational mapping tools (e.g., Hibernate).Ability to work in an agile environment, engaged in ScrumAbility to work in an autonomous, self-responsible, and self-organised way.Able to effectively communicate in English.Nice to have:Experience writing clean code in different programming languages (Java, Python, Kotlin, JavaScript TypeScript).Experience with BDD.Experience with APP test automation tools.