Senior Quality Engineer

Senior Quality Engineer - Playwright Automation

Employment Type: Full-time

Location: Hyderabad

Experience: 5 to 7 Years

Joining: Immediate to 15 Days

Shift: 11:00 AM to 08:00 PM

Work Model: 4 Days Work From Office, 1 Day Work From Home.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain robust UI automation frameworks using Playwright.
• Perform functional, integration, regression, end-to-end, and system testing for web applications.
• Validate REST APIs and gRPC services, including request/response verification, error handling, and contract validation.
• Develop and execute automated API tests using Playwright or other API automation frameworks.
• Perform database validation by writing and executing SQL queries to verify data integrity and business rules.
• Review business requirements and technical designs to define effective test strategies and test scenarios.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Identify, document, prioritize, and track defects through resolution.
• Integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous testing.
• Collaborate closely with developers, product managers, and DevOps teams to ensure quality throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Analyze test metrics and provide recommendations for improving product quality and testing efficiency.

Required Skills

• 5–6 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance and Test Automation.
• Strong hands-on experience with Playwright using TypeScript.
• Experience testing REST APIs and gRPC APIs/services.
• Strong understanding of API protocols, JSON, Protocol Buffers (Protobuf), HTTP/HTTP2, authentication, and service validation.
• Hands-on experience using tools such as Postman, gRPC clients (e.g., grpcurl or BloomRPC), or equivalent API testing tools.
• Strong SQL skills with experience in database testing, including data validation, complex queries, joins, stored procedures, and data consistency checks.
• Experience with test automation framework design, maintenance, and execution.
• Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies and the Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or GitLab CI.
• Experience with Git and version control best practices.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and debugging skills.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.