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/Open API, and automated API testing frameworks. CI/CD & Agile: Experience working with CI/CD pipelines, version control systems, test management tools (Jira, Xray, Test Rail), 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 Git Hub Actions, Git Lab 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) #J-18808-Ljbffr

📌 Senior qa automation engineer (Guadalajara)
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