Product Quality Engineer I

Phenom; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Phenom is seeking a Test Engineer with 3 to 5 years of experience in both manual and automation testing to join our talent experience platform team. You will own end-to-end quality for assigned product areas from requirements to release sign-off.

You will define test strategies across UI, APIs, and event-driven systems, build scalable automation frameworks with Playwright (Python/JS), and collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve release quality and speed.

Qualifications

• 3 to 5 years of testing experience (manual & automation).
• Strong experience with Playwright/Selenium automation.
• Proficiency in Python or Java.
• Hands-on experience testing event-driven, asynchronous systems (Kafka).
• Familiarity with performance testing tools and production metrics analysis.
• CI/CD integration using Jenkins.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end quality for assigned product areas, from requirements to release sign-off.
• Participate in requirement and design discussions; validate business workflows and customer use cases, including async and event-driven flows.
• Define comprehensive test strategies across UI, APIs, and event-based systems.
• Define and implement comprehensive test strategies covering functional, integration, regression, exploratory, negative, and risk-based testing.
• Ensure coverage for BVT, Sanity, Regression, and Exploratory testing with clear traceability to requirements.
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable and reusable automation frameworks using Playwright with Python or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Contribute to framework architecture to support UI, API, and event-driven automation.
• Build modular, maintainable test utilities and reusable components. Establish automation best practices and coding standards.
• Implement parallel execution, tagging strategies, and optimized test suite organization.
• Improve automation coverage across critical business workflows and platform integrations.
• Continuously refactor and enhance framework stability, execution speed, and maintainability.

Skills

Automation testing

Manual testing

Test strategy

Mentoring juniors

Tools

Playwright

Selenium

Jenkins

Kafka

Python

Java

Job description

Job Requirements

Phenom Intro

Our purpose is to help a billion people find the right work! Phenom is an AI-Powered

talent experience platform that is redefining the HR tech space. We have grown into a

global organization with offices in 6 countries and over 1,500 employees. As an HR tech

unicorn organization, innovation and creativity is within our DNA. Come help us make

every talent moment Phenomenal!

We are looking for a Test Engineer with 3 to 5 years of both Manual & Automation

experience & below requirements

Key Responsibilities

Product & Quality Ownership

• Own end-to-end quality for assigned product areas, from requirements to release

sign-off.

• Participate in requirement and design discussions; validate business workflows and customer use cases, including async and event-driven flows.

• Define comprehensive test strategies across UI, APIs, and event-based systems.
• Define and implement comprehensive test strategies covering functional, integration, regression, exploratory, negative, and risk-based testing.

• Ensure coverage for BVT, Sanity, Regression, and Exploratory testing with clear traceability to requirements

Automation & Frameworks

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable and reusable automation frameworks using Playwright with Python or JavaScript/TypeScript.

• Contribute to framework architecture to support UI, API, and event-driven automation.

• Build modular, maintainable test utilities and reusable components. Establish automation best practices and coding standards to enable reliable, low-flakiness automation adoption across teams.

• Implement parallel execution, tagging strategies, and optimized test suite organization.

• Improve automation coverage across critical business workflows and platform integrations.

• Continuously refactor and enhance framework stability, execution speed, and maintainability.

Tooling, AI & CI/CD:

• Test data creation
• Event mocking
• Environment orchestration
• Leverage AI-powered tools to accelerate:
• Test case generation
• Flaky test analysis
• Root cause identification
• Integrate UI, API, and event-based automation into Jenkins CI/CD pipelines.
• Continuously improve pipeline stability and reduce E2E test flakiness.

AI Skills & Competencies

AI-Augmented Testing

• Use AI/ML-based test generation tools (e.g., Testim, Diffblue, Cursor) to auto-generate and maintain test cases from requirements or code changes.

• Apply large language models (LLMs) and prompt engineering to generate edge case scenarios, test data, and exploratory test ideas.

• Use AI-driven analytics platforms to predict test failures, optimize test suite selection, and prioritize risk-based testing.

AI-Powered Quality Analysis

• Employ AI-based flaky test detection and self-healing frameworks (e.g., Healenium, Mabl) to reduce test maintenance overhead.

• Apply natural language processing (NLP) to parse and validate unstructured requirement documents, release notes, and user stories for testability gaps.

AI Tooling Familiarity (Preferred)

• Familiarity with Cursor, Kiro, or similar AI coding assistants for accelerating script writing, code reviews, and test authoring.

• Ability to evaluate and onboard emerging AI QA tools, benchmark their impact, and champion adoption across teams.

Required Skills & Experience

• 3 to 5 years of experience in testing both Manual & Automation
• Strong experience in Playwright/Selenium automation.
• Proficiency in Python or Java.
• Hands‑on experience testing event-driven, asynchronous systems (Kafka).
• Experience with performance testing tools and production metrics analysis.
• CI/CD integration using Jenkins.
• Strong foundations in manual testing types and end-to-end test strategy creation.
• Ability to mentor junior QEs and communicate quality risks effectively.

Benefits

We want you to be your best self and to pursue your passions!

• Benefits/programs to support holistic employee health
• Growing organization with career pathing and development opportunities

Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Our commitment to diversity runs deep! Diversity is essential to building phenomenal

teams, products, and customer experiences. Phenom is proud to be an equal

opportunity employer taking collective action to build a more inclusive environment.