- Test Strategy & Planning: Collaborate with stakeholders to define testing approaches, quality metrics, and automation strategies for complex, data-intensive applications.
- Quality Advocacy: Promote quality-first practices and participate actively in requirements reviews, sprint planning, and release activities.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Engineering, Product, and Project teams to identify risks, validate requirements, and ensure quality is integrated early in the SDLC (Shift-Left approach).
- Mentorship: Provide technical guidance and support to junior QA engineers and contribute to building QA best practices across the team.

Automation Development & Maintenance

- Automation Framework Development: Design, develop, and maintain scalable automated test frameworks for web applications and APIs using Playwright, Cypress, and modern testing tools.
- Python Automation: Develop and maintain test automation solutions, data validation scripts, API testing frameworks, and utility tools using Python .
- Test Coverage Improvement: Continuously identify opportunities to expand automation coverage and improve testing efficiency.
- CI/CD Integration: Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines to support continuous quality and faster feedback cycles.

Delivery & Quality Assurance

- Data & Report Validation: Design and execute test strategies for complex financial reports, data pipelines, dashboards, and data-heavy applications.
- API & Database Testing: Perform API, backend, and database validation through automated and manual testing approaches.
- Defect Management: Investigate defects, conduct root-cause analysis, and collaborate with development teams to drive resolution.
- Release Validation: Support release testing, regression execution,



and production-readiness assessments.

Must-Have Qualifications & Skills

- Experience: 4-7 years of experience in Quality Assurance, Software Testing, or Test Automation.
- Python Development: Hands‑on experience with Python for test automation, API testing, data validation, framework development, and scripting.
- Data‑Intensive Systems: Experience testing data‑heavy applications, financial reporting systems, analytics platforms, or complex data workflows.
- SQL & Data Validation: Strong capability in writing complex SQL queries for backend validation, data reconciliation, and database testing.
- API Testing: Practical experience testing REST APIs using tools such as Postman, Swagger/OpenAPI, and automated API testing frameworks.
- CI/CD & Agile: Experience working with CI/CD pipelines, version control systems, test management tools (Jira, Xray, TestRail), and Agile/Scrum environments.
- Communication Skills: Strong collaboration, problem‑solving, and stakeholder communication skills.
- Leadership Potential: Experience mentoring junior team members or leading testing efforts within a project team.

Nice‑to‑Have Skills

- Experience with performance and load testing tools such as k6 , JMeter , or similar.
- Experience with Python testing frameworks such as Pytest , Behave , or Robot Framework .
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS , Azure , or GCP .
- Experience with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or other CI/CD platforms.
- Exposure to data engineering concepts, ETL testing, and data pipeline validation.
- Knowledge of container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.

Recommended Job Title Options

- Senior QA Automation Engineer
- Mid‑Senior QA Automation Engineer
- Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

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