Senior Quality Assurance Automation Engineer

Role: Senior QA Automation Engineer Mode: Hybrid (3 days a week) Location: Burgesshill Type of hiring: Permanent We are seeking a highly experienced Senior QA Engineer with strong expertise in both frontend and backend applications APIs web and native mobile applications This role requires a hands-on quality leader who drives automation strategy ensures high engineering standards and embeds quality throughout the entire software development lifecycle The ideal candidate will function as a platform SME championing automation scalability security and performance across full stack systems deployed in cloud environments Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain comprehensive test cases test strategies and test plans striving toward high levels of test automation using modern frameworks and programming languages
• Ensure robust test automation across APIs backend services web frontend applications and native mobile applications
• Design build and maintain scalable automation frameworks for frontend UI backend services and API layers
• Perform and support manual and automated testing including
• Functional testing
• Regression testing
• Integration and system testing
• Performance and scalability testing
• Security and compliance testing
• Drive quality improvements through collaboration with engineers including support for unit testing and code refactoring
• Promote and enforce TestDriven Development TDD and BehaviorDriven Development BDD practices
• Act as a Platform SME for Quality Engineering defining and driving automation and testing strategy at the application level
• Review user stories and product backlogs deriving detailed test cases from requirements and specifications to validate
• Completeness and edge cases
• Performance and reliability
• Scalability and testability
• Usability and accessibility
• Security and compliance
• Define risk based testing approaches and provide recommendations on prioritization aligned with delivery timelines
• Integrate automated tests into CICD pipelines enabling continuous testing and rapid feedback
• Conduct application security testing validating against common vulnerabilities eg OWASP Top 10
• Validate applications deployed in public cloud environments AWS Azure or GCP
• Utilize industry standard tools for defect tracking source control test case management automation reporting and monitoring
• Mentor QA and engineering team members on automation best practices and framework adoption
• Continuously evaluate and adopt new testing tools frameworks and quality practices Minimum Qualifications:
• 6 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance across frontend and backend applications
• Strong experience testing Backend services Nodejs preferred RESTful APIs Web frontend applications Native mobile applications
• Expert knowledge of Testing Frameworks and Automation Design Patterns including TDD BDD Page Object Model POM
• Experience with automation tools such as WebdriverIO MochaJS Postman UI automation frameworks eg Selenium Cypress Playwright or similar
• Strong understanding of unit testing frameworks and code coverage practices
• Experience integrating automation into CICD pipelines Jenkins GitHub Actions GitLab CI Azure DevOps etc
• Experience with defect tracking and source control tools eg Jira Git
• Experience working in Agile Scrum environments
• Strong understanding of clean code principles Testdriven development Agile engineering mindset
• Knowledge of public cloud platforms AWS Azure or GCP
• Experience in application security testing
• Proven ability to build and adopt new test frameworks
• Excellent communication collaboration and leadership skills
• High engagement strong self-organization and team-oriented mindset Preferred Qualifications
• Experience with performance testing tools eg JMeter k6
• Experience with microservices architecture
• Experience with containerization Docker Kubernetes
• Familiarity with accessibility testing standards
• QA certifications eg ISTQB are a plus Skills Mandatory Skills : API/Microservices RestAssured Testing, Playwright Java testing, Selenium-Java -Testing Recruiter's Email : shikharsharma@thriveitsystems.com