Automation Tester - Playwright & TypeScript OR Cypress & JavaScript - BLR

Photon; India; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Photon is seeking a QA Automation Engineer in India to translate requirements into robust test strategies and maintain automated scripts. The role includes on-call support in Prod and Preprod, adherence to automation framework practices, and applying BDD concepts to test software solutions.

Candidate should have 5-6 years in software quality engineering, hands-on automation scripting for 3+ years, and experience with Playwright and RESTful services validation.

Qualifications

• 5-6 years of experience in software test/Quality Engineering.
• Hands-on Software Development in Test with at least 3 years automation scripting.
• Good understanding of BDD, CI-CD and DevOps concepts is mandatory.
• Experience with Playwright and validation of RESTful web services.

Responsibilities

• Translating business and systems requirements into test strategy, test scenarios and test plans.
• Designing, developing, documenting and maintaining optimized automated test scripts.
• Rotational QE - On-call Support in Prod and Preprod infrastructure.
• Adhering to Engineering Practices in development of automation framework.
• Understand and apply BDD design concepts to test software solutions.
• Delivering accurate and maintainable code for automation and software utilities.
• Measure and Report key QE metrics.
• Contribute towards Quality Engineering chapter initiatives.
• Collaborating with other technical resources to identify opportunities to improve processes and automation maintainability.

Skills

Test strategy

Cloud testing

Automation coverage

Stakeholder communication

Multi-tasking

Tools

Playwright

RESTful API testing

Job description

India

Trending

Job Description

Good to have : API , DB automation skills , Mobile Testing & Automation, Java, Selenium

Responsibilities of this role

• Translating business and systems requirements into test strategy, test scenarios and test plans.
• Designing, developing, documenting and maintaining optimized automated test scripts.
• Rotational QE - On-call Support in Prod and Preprod infrastructure.
• Adhering to Engineering Practices in development of automation framework.
• Understand and apply BDD design concepts to test software solutions.
• Delivering accurate and maintainable code for automation and software utilities.
• Measure and Report key QE metrics.
• Contribute towards Quality Engineering chapter initiatives.
• Collaborating with other technical resources to:
  • Suggest improvements for processes, best practices, and standards.
  • Identify opportunities to improve maintainability of automation platform.

The Skills that are Key to this role

• Apply proven analytical, problem-solving and quality assurance/testing skills to enhance and validate the quality of the software solutions.
• Effectively communicating with stakeholders and providing up to date status of QE delivery.
• Guide the team to build end to end test strategy.
• Bring in cloud testing expertise.
• Spearhead the automation coverage for a given system.
• Ability to quickly learn, adapt and strive to meet the needs of a fast paced, changing environment.
• Ability to navigate organizationally to accomplish tasks.
• Ability to work on multiple efforts simultaneously.

Technical skills

• 5-6 years' experience predominantly in software test/ Quality Engineering.
• Deep expertise in different types of testing.
• Hands-on Software Development in Test experience, which includes any of the following:
  • 3+ years of automation scripting experience (not record and playback).
• Good understanding of BDD, CI-CD and DevOps concepts is mandatory.
• Expertise in following is required:
  • Playwright Automation Tool
  • Validation of RESTful web services
• Experience in the following is a strong plus:
  • Graph QL
  • Cloud certification in (AWS/Azure)
• Understanding and working experience of Non-functional testing would be added plus.
  • Accessibility Testing using (NVDA, JAWS)