Lead QA Automation Engineer

Weekday AI (YC W21); India; On-site; INR 1,000,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Weekday AI (YC W21) is seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer with 9+ years of software quality experience. You will build scalable automation frameworks, perform UI and API testing, and drive quality initiatives across the SDLC.

The ideal candidate will have hands-on expertise with Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Rest Assured, Postman, SQL, and CI/CD tools like Azure DevOps and Jenkins. Experience with Kafka, Kubernetes, and cloud-native apps is highly valued.

Qualifications

• 9+ years of software quality engineering or related role.
• Experience in building automation frameworks from the ground up.
• Strong hands-on with Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, or similar tools.
• Experience with API automation (Rest Assured, Postman) and SQL.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable test automation frameworks.
• Develop robust UI automation using Selenium, Playwright, or Cypress.
• Create automated API and integration tests with Rest Assured and Postman.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and report results.

Skills

Automation design

Problem solving

Ownership

Collaboration

Debugging

Tools

Selenium

Playwright

Cypress

Rest Assured

Postman

SQL

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Kafka

Kubernetes

Job description

Job Description:

This role is for one of the Weekdays clients

Salary range: ₹ 1000000 - ₹2500000 (INR 10-25 LPA)

Experience: 9+ yrs

Location: India

Job Type: Full-time

We are looking for an experienced Senior QA Automation Engineer with 9+ years of experience in software quality engineering and a strong track record of building scalable automation frameworks rather than simply operating existing test suites.

The role requires deep expertise across UI automation, API testing, backend validation, CI/CD, performance engineering, event-driven systems, and cloud-native applications. You will play a key role in establishing robust quality engineering practices, improving test automation coverage, and embedding continuous testing throughout the software development lifecycle.

The ideal candidate will combine strong hands-on engineering capabilities with the ability to design maintainable automation architecture and drive quality improvements across complex software systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable test automation frameworks for complex software applications.
• Develop robust UI automation using Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, or comparable frameworks.
• Build automated API and integration tests using tools such as Rest Assured, Postman, or equivalent technologies.
• Develop comprehensive test strategies covering functional, regression, integration, API, data, and end-to-end testing.
• Implement backend and database validation using SQL and other data-validation techniques.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous testing and rapid quality feedback.
• Work with Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar CI/CD platforms to automate test execution and reporting.
• Identify opportunities to improve automation coverage, reliability, execution speed, and maintainability.
• Design reusable automation components, utilities, libraries, and frameworks that can scale across products and teams.
• Perform root-cause analysis of test failures and collaborate with engineering teams to resolve defects and quality issues.
• Develop testing approaches for event-driven and distributed systems, including Kafka-based applications.
• Contribute to performance engineering, including performance testing, bottleneck identification, and system behaviour analysis.
• Validate cloud-native applications and services deployed across environments such as Azure and Kubernetes.
• Establish quality gates and automated validation within software delivery pipelines.
• Collaborate with developers and technical teams to shift testing earlier in the development lifecycle.
• Maintain automation standards, technical documentation, test strategies, and engineering best practices.
• Continuously evaluate emerging testing tools and technologies to improve quality engineering effectiveness.

What Makes You a Great Fit

• 9-12 years of experience in software quality engineering, QA automation, or a closely related engineering role.
• Proven experience building automation frameworks from the ground up, not just executing or maintaining existing frameworks.
• Strong hands-on expertise with Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, or comparable automation frameworks.
• Strong experience with API automation, including Rest Assured, Postman, or similar tools.
• Strong SQL skills and experience performing backend, database, and data validation.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD and continuous testing practices.
• Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or equivalent CI/CD technologies.
• Experience with performance engineering and performance testing.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and Kafka/event-driven architectures.
• Experience testing cloud-native applications, preferably within Azure and Kubernetes environments.
• Strong understanding of software testing methodologies, automation architecture, test strategy, and quality engineering principles.
• Excellent debugging, analytical, and root-cause analysis skills.
• Strong programming and scripting capabilities for developing maintainable automation solutions.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with developers, DevOps engineers, product teams, and other technical stakeholders.
• Strong ownership mindset with the ability to independently drive automation and quality initiatives.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain complex technical quality issues clearly.