CQLC Senior Associate - Quality Automation

MDD Forensic Accountants LLP; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

MDD Forensic Accountants LLP in Pune seeks a Senior Associate - Quality (Automation) to shape, deliver, and maintain automated testing solutions across a suite of products. You will lead cross-functional teams to embed automation in the development lifecycle, champion TDD, and drive scalable test frameworks within a modern CI/CD setup.

The role requires hands-on expertise with Cypress Cloud, Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, and Repo-wide test orchestration in a Scrum environment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in test automation and QA engineering roles.
• Strong expertise in Cypress Cloud and Selenium WebDriver.
• Experience with Cucumber and Reqnroll for BDD.
• Familiarity with BrowserStack, GitHub and CI/CD automation.
• Experience with monorepo structures and test orchestration.
• Ability to work in an Agile Scrum environment and advocate TDD.
• Strong analytical and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and evolution of test automation frameworks across multiple products.
• Define automation standards, patterns, and best practices across the SDLC.
• Evaluate and introduce new automation tools to improve coverage and efficiency.
• Drive adoption of TDD and automation-first approaches across teams.

Skills

Test automation

QA engineering

Cypress Cloud

Selenium WebDriver

Cucumber

Reqnroll

BrowserStack

GitHub

CI/CD

Monorepo

TDD

Tools

Cypress Cloud

Selenium WebDriver

Cucumber

Reqnroll

BrowserStack

GitHub

Jest

K6/JMeter

Job description

Job Description:

CQLC: Senior Associate - Quality (Automation)

Department: IT

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Pune

Description

As a Test Automation Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping, delivering, and maintaining high-quality automated testing solutions across a suite of innovative products. You will work closely with developers, product owners, architects, and wider engineering teams to drive a quality-first mindset and ensure that automation is embedded throughout the development lifecycle. A core part of the role is building, enhancing, and governing automation frameworks, ensuring that testing is scalable, reliable, and aligned with modern engineering practices. You will work heavily within an Agile Scrum environment, champion test-driven development (TDD), support continuous testing within CI/CD pipelines, and guide teams in modern automation approaches, tools, and techniques. This role requires strong technical expertise, excellent communication skills, and the ability to collaborate effectively across cross-functional Agile teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, and evolution of test automation frameworks across multiple products and services.
• Define and maintain automation standards, patterns, and best practices across the SDLC.
• Evaluate, recommend, and introduce new automation tools and frameworks to improve coverage and efficiency.
• Drive the adoption of TDD, automation-first approaches, and quality engineering practices across teams.

Build and maintain automation solutions using:

• Cypress Cloud and Selenium WebDriver for E2E testing.
• Cucumber and Reqnroll for BDD practices.
• Jest for unit and component testing (desirable).
• K6 or JMeter for performance testing (desirable).
• Manage and execute cross-browser testing using BrowserStack.
• Work within a Monorepo architecture to deliver efficient, scalable test orchestration.
• Ensure seamless continuous testing through GitHub and DevOps CI/CD pipelines.
• Develop, execute, and maintain automated tests across functional, regression, integration, performance, and non-functional categories.
• Validate outputs, behaviours, and workflows to ensure products meet the highest quality standards.
• Perform root cause analysis for defects and collaborate with development teams to prevent recurrence.
• Ensure high automation coverage and promote continuous quality improvement.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Proven experience in test automation and QA engineering roles. Strong expertise in: Cypress Cloud, Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, Reqnroll, BrowserStack, GitHub and CI/CD automation
• Monorepo structures and test orchestration
• Strong understanding of test automation strategies, frameworks, methodologies, and patterns.
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• Ability to collaborate confidently with engineers, analysts, and product teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a quality-first mindset.
• Clear communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts simply.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver high-quality automated test scripts and frameworks.
• Experience in Agile Scrum delivery environments.

Requirements: