Lead Automation Tester

Exathought; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Exathought Technology consulting Pvt Limited in Bengaluru seeks an experienced QA Automation Engineer to design, develop, and maintain scalable automation frameworks using industry-standard tools and best practices. You will lead hands-on test automation across web, APIs, and databases, integrate with CI/CD, and mentor junior QA engineers.

You will collaborate with product owners, developers, and DevOps to improve test coverage, reduce defects, and speed up release quality.

Responsibilities

• Automation framework development using scalable, reusable test frameworks.
• Define and implement automation strategies aligned with requirements and CI/CD.
• Develop, execute, and maintain automated test scripts for web, APIs, and databases.
• API and database testing with SQL queries and cloud data platforms.
• Collaborate with QA, developers, and product owners to ensure coverage.
• Coordinate defect analysis and root cause investigation.
• Improve framework reliability and test efficiency.
• CI/CD integration and collaboration with DevOps.
• Provide technical guidance and code reviews.
• Participate in agile sprint planning, estimation, and release planning.

Job description

Roles and Responsibilities

Automation Framework Development: Design, develop, and maintain scalable, reusable, and reliable test automation frameworks using industry-standard tools, libraries, and best practices.

• Automation Strategy: Define and implement automation strategies aligned with business requirements, application architecture, release cycles, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on Test Automation: Develop, execute, and maintain automated test scripts for web applications, APIs, and database-driven applications across multiple platforms and browsers.
• API and Database Testing: Perform API automation and backend data validation, including complex SQL queries and database testing across SQL-based and cloud data platforms.
• Test Planning and Coverage: Collaborate with developers, product owners, business analysts, and QA teams to understand requirements, identify test scenarios, and ensure comprehensive test coverage.
• Defect Management: Analyse test execution results, identify failures, perform root cause analysis, document defects, and coordinate with relevant teams through resolution.
• Framework Optimization: Improve automation script reliability, reusability, maintainability, execution speed, and overall test efficiency.
• CI/CD Integration: Integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines and collaborate with DevOps teams to improve continuous testing and release quality.
• Technical Leadership: Provide technical guidance and mentorship to QA engineers on automation frameworks, coding standards, debugging techniques, and testing best practices.
• Code Reviews: Review automation code and test scripts to ensure quality,

consistency, maintainability, and adherence to engineering standards.

• Agile Collaboration: Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily stand ups, retrospectives, test estimation, and release planning.
• Quality Metrics and Reporting: Track and communicate automation coverage, test

execution results, defect trends, and other quality metrics to relevant stakeholders.

• Continuous Improvement: Identify gaps in existing QA processes, evaluate

emerging tools and technologies, and recommend improvements to automation

practices and quality engineering standards.

• Quality Governance: Contribute to the development and continuous improvement

of QA strategy, testing standards, and automation roadmaps.