About First Advantage
First Advantage is a global leader in background screening and identity solutions, trusted by more than 30,000 customers worldwide. Our technology powers safer hiring decisions across more than 200 countries and territories, helping organizations manage risk and onboard talent with confidence.
India is one of First Advantage's largest hubs, home to key engineering, product, and operations teams that play a critical role in shaping our global platforms. Our teams here are shaping high‑volume, cloud‑native platforms that support millions of applicants globally. As part of our continued expansion, including our 2024 acquisition of Sterling, we are scaling our product, engineering, and quality capabilities to deliver the next generation of HR technology solutions.
Joining First Advantage means joining a company at the forefront of digital transformation, where innovation, collaboration, and customer impact drive everything we do.
About The Role
We are looking for a
Senior QA Automation Engineer to drive quality and automation excellence across our modern, distributed SaaS ecosystem. You will design and implement automated test frameworks, strengthen CI/CD quality gates, and ensure our systems remain resilient, scalable, and reliable.
This is a hands on engineering role, with ownership, autonomy, and the opportunity to contribute to global platforms and high impact initiatives. You'll work in a collaborative, modern engineering environment, where sharing knowledge and working transparently is part of our culture.
What You'll Do
Automation Engineering
- Design, develop, and maintain automated test suites for UI, API, microservices, and integration layers.
- Build scalable, reusable automation frameworks and utilities stored and maintained in GitHub.
- Develop automated validations for distributed systems, service‑to‑service flows, queue‑based messaging, and API contracts.
Quality Ownership
- Partner with developers and product teams to define test strategies, acceptance criteria, and quality gates.
- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and ensure consistent, reliable execution.
- Support exploratory, UAT, and end‑to‑end testing as needed to validate user‑centric scenarios.
Technical Leadership & Continuous Improvement
- Contribute to engineering best practices around code quality, observability, automation design, and performance testing.
- Participate in GitHub‑based workflows: pull requests, code reviews, branching strategies, and reusable automation libraries.
- Mentor team members and support internal learning initiatives.
What You Bring
Core Automation Skills
- 5–7 years of hands-on experience in QA automation or test engineering. (Senior enough to own frameworks, but not artificially inflated.)
- Strong experience with JavaScript/TypeScript-based test automation.
- Expertise in WebdriverIO and/or Playwright (your team's primary tools).
- Solid experience designing and maintaining UI, API, and integration test automation.
- Experience working with BrowserStack, Sauce Labs, or similar cloud testing platforms.
Framework & Architecture Skills
- Ability to design, maintain, and scale automation frameworks (preferably Node.js/TypeScript).
- Strong understanding of API testing, including REST.
- Experience with contract testing and schema validation.
- Understanding of microservices, distributed systems, and API communication patterns.
- Knowledge of BDD frameworks (Cucumber).
DevOps & Tooling
- Hands-on experience with GitHub Actions (pipelines, workflows, test execution).
- Strong Git skills: branching strategies, code reviews, PR quality.
- Familiarity with CI/CD concepts and optimizing test pipelines.
Data & Application Knowledge
- Ability to write and understand SQL queries.
- Good understanding of web technologies (HTML, CSS, DOM).
Ways of Working
- Comfortable working in Agile/Scrum with engineering, product, and design teams.
- Strong communicator, able to influence engineering quality practices.
- Ownership mindset: proactive, takes initiative, drives improvements end-to-end.
- Detail-oriented tester with a balance of risk-based testing and pragmatism.
- Curious, adaptable, and committed to continuous learning and improving the test ecosystem.
Nice to Have
- Familiarity with serverless environments (AWS Lambda, Azure Functions).
- Experience with performance testing (e.g., k6, Gatling).
- Understanding of accessibility testing principles (WCAG 2.1 AA).
Why Join Us
Build at Scale: Contribute to platforms used by global enterprises and millions of applicants every year, ensuring reliability, performance, and exceptional customer experience.
Modern Tech Stack: Work with cloud‑native, microservices‑based, API‑first platforms built using modern engineering tools, frameworks, and automation‑forward practices.
Learning & Growth: Collaborate with global engineering teams, learn modern development and quality practices, and gain continuous opportunities for innovation and professional advancement.
Collaborative Culture: Experience a transparent, open, and supportive engineering culture rooted in shared ownership, strong communication, and customer‑focused values.
Flexible Work Environment: Enjoy the benefits of a fully remote work model in India, with flexibility, work‑life balance, and a competitive benefits package.
We have great people here and are looking for more. Come join us!
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Equal Employment Opportunities at First Advantage
First Advantage is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing a workplace and recruitment process that is free from unlawful discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. Employment decisions at First Advantage are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs. We do not discriminate in any aspect of employment on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, religion, creed, sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital or family status, pregnancy, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. 
