We are seeking a Senior Quality Analyst - SDET with approximately 2+ years of QA experience, including at least 2+ years of strong hands-on automation experience in Selenium and REST API automation. The ideal candidate will design and maintain scalable automation frameworks for both UI and API layers, integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines, and drive quality engineering best practices in Agile environments.

What You'll Do

Test Strategy & Planning

Define overall test strategy across functional, UI automation, API automation, regression, and integration testing.
Develop release-level test plans and quality gates.
Define entry/exit criteria and automation roadmap.
Ensure alignment with Agile/Scrum methodology.

Automation Governance

Oversee Selenium automation framework health.
Improve automation coverage and reduce manual regression.
Ensure REST API automation coverage.
Integrate automation suites into CI/CD pipelines.
Reduce flaky tests and improve test stability.

Functional & Domain Oversight

Ensure complete test coverage for complex workflows and integration flows.
Support SIT, UAT, and production validation.
Maintain strong requirement-to-test traceability (RTM).

Defect & Risk Management

Lead defect triage meetings.
Analyze defect trends and identify systemic issues.
Ensure minimal production defect leakage.
Define risk mitigation strategies for high-impact releases.

Stakeholder Communication

Act as primary QA point of contact for Product, BA, and Engineering teams.
Provide quality metrics and dashboard reporting.
Present automation progress and release readiness.
Collaborate with DevOps for CI/CD optimization.

TMC / Travel Domain Advantage

Experience in Travel Management Company (TMC) environments.
Understanding of booking lifecycle platforms and mid-office/back-office systems.
Knowledge of ticketing, exchanges, refunds workflows.
Experience with reconciliation and financial validations.
Familiarity with GDS integrations (Amadeus, Sabre, Travelport).

What We're Looking For

Automation & Technical

Strong knowledge of Selenium WebDriver.
REST API automation experience (REST Assured preferred).
Framework design experience.
CI/CD integration (Jenkins / Azure DevOps).
SQL for backend validation.
Experience with JIRA & Confluence.

Leadership & Soft Skills

Strong planning and coordination ability.
Excellent stakeholder communication.
Ability to manage parallel releases.
Risk identification and mitigation mindset.

Experience Requirements

3+ years total QA experience.
2+ years of hands-on automation experience.
Experience in enterprise or product-based environments.
TMC / Travel domain experience preferred.
Must be willing and able to work in 2nd shifts (3:00 PM IST to 12:00 AM IST) and occasional weekends as required.
Must be willing to work from the Bangalore office location minimum 3 days in a week.

Success Metrics

Increased automation coverage (%).
Reduced regression cycle time.
Low production defect leakage.
On-time release readiness.
Improved team productivity.
Stable CI/CD test execution.

Quality Analyst SDET (UI + API Automation)