QA Automation Engineer

Aon Corporation; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 1,200,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Aon plc in Bangalore/Noida/Gurgaon is seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer to design, develop, and maintain robust automated test frameworks and suites for medium to high complexity systems, ensuring high quality and reliability of deliverables.

The role collaborates with Developers, BAs, Product Owners, and DevOps to drive test strategy, automation coverage, and CI/CD integration; requires mentoring juniors and contributing to quality engineering practices.

Qualifications

• 7-10 years of work experience in relevant field.
• BTech in computer science or related quantitative field, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve test automation strategy and frameworks for assigned applications and platforms, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and reusability.
• Design, develop, and maintain automated test suites (UI, API, integration, and regression) for medium to high complexity features and systems.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, enabling continuous testing, fast feedback, and quality gates as part of build and release processes.
• Work closely with BAs, Product Owners, and Developers to review requirements and designs, identify test conditions early, and ensure functional and non-functional requirements are testable.
• Lead efforts to maintain and optimize regression test packs, ensuring appropriate coverage of critical business flows and minimizing flakiness.
• Analyze test results, troubleshoot failures, and collaborate with development and DevOps teams to identify root causes and drive timely defect resolution.
• Contribute to and sometimes lead non-functional testing activities (e.g., performance, reliability, basic security checks) using approved tools and practices.
• Mentor and support junior QA engineers, providing guidance on test design, automation practices, coding standards, and quality mindset.
• Influence and improve QA and engineering processes, standards, and tooling (e.g., coding guidelines for test automation, code review practices for test assets).
• Participate actively in Agile ceremonies (planning, refinement, reviews, retrospectives), providing input on test effort, quality risks, and readiness for release.
• Produce and maintain clear documentation of test frameworks, automation approaches, test plans, and test execution reports for stakeholders.

Skills

Selenium

Cypress

Playwright

WebDriverIO

REST API testing

Java

CI/CD integration

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Git

SQL

Performance testing

JMeter

Gatling

k6

BDD/TDD

Cucumber

SpecFlow

Agile/Scrum

Education

BTech in computer science or related quantitative field, or equivalent experience

Tools

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Postman

SQL tools

Job description

Job Title- Sr Automation QA Engineer

Position type- Full Time

Work Location- Bangalore , Noida, Gurgaon

Working style- Hybrid

Shift Time- 12PM to 9PM

People Manager role: No

Required education and certifications critical for the role- BTech in computer science or related quantitative field, or equivalent experience

Required years of experience –

7-10 years of work experience in relevant field

AON IS IN THE BUSINESS OF BETTER DECISIONS

At Aon, we shape decisions for the better to protect and enrich the lives of people around the world. As an organization, we are committed to our purpose as one firm, united through trust as one inclusive, diverse team and we are passionate about helping our colleagues and clients succeed.

Job Summary

Senior QA Automation Engineer - works with limited guidance to design, develop, and maintain robust automated test frameworks and suites for medium to high complexity systems, ensuring high quality and reliability of deliverables. Partners closely with Developers, Business Analysts, Product Owners, and DevOps/Infra teams to drive test strategy, automation coverage, and continuous testing as part of CI/CD pipelines. Provides technical leadership within the QA function, mentors junior team members, contributes to estimation and risk identification, and influences improvements in quality engineering practices, tools, and processes.

Job Responsibilities

• Own and evolvetest automation strategy and frameworksfor assigned applications and platforms, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and reusability.
• Design, develop, and maintainautomated test suites(UI, API, integration, and regression) for medium to high complexity features and systems.
• Integrate automated tests intoCI/CD pipelines, enabling continuous testing, fast feedback, and quality gates as part of build and release processes.
• Work closely with BAs, Product Owners, and Developers toreview requirements and designs, identify test conditions early, and ensure functional and non-functional requirements are testable.
• Lead efforts to maintain and optimizeregression test packs, ensuring appropriate coverage of critical business flows and minimizing flakiness.
• Analyze test results, troubleshoot failures, and collaborate with development and DevOps teams toidentify root causesand drive timely defect resolution.
• Contribute to and sometimes leadnon-functional testingactivities (e.g., performance, reliability, basic security checks) using approved tools and practices.
• Mentor and supportjunior QA engineers, providing guidance on test design, automation practices, coding standards, and quality mindset.
• Influence and improveQA and engineering processes, standards, and tooling (e.g., coding guidelines for test automation, code review practices for test assets).
• Participate actively inAgile ceremonies(planning, refinement, reviews, retrospectives), providing input on test effort, quality risks, and readiness for release.
• Produce and maintain cleardocumentationof test frameworks, automation approaches, test plans, and test execution reports for stakeholders.

Skills and Experience

• 6+ years of strong hands-on experience with moderntest automation frameworksfor web/UI testing (e.g., Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, WebDriverIO, or equivalent).
• Solid experience testing and automatingREST APIs(e.g., Postman with Newman, REST Assured, Karate, or similar).
• Proficiency in at least oneprogramming languageused for automation (e.g., Java, C#, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Python), including good coding practices and refactoring skills.
• Practical experience integrating automated tests intoCI/CD tools(e.g., Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI) with build, test, and deployment pipelines.
• Strong understanding ofsoftware testing principlesand techniques (functional, integration, regression, exploratory, boundary, negative testing, etc.).
• Working knowledge ofrelational databases(e.g., SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle) and ability to write moderate-complexity SQL for data setup and validation.
• Experience withversion control systems(e.g., Git) and collaborative development workflows (branches, pull requests, code reviews).
• Exposure to or experience withperformance testing tools(e.g., JMeter, Gatling, k6) and analysis of performance results is a plus.
• Familiarity withBDD/TDD approachesand tools (e.g., Cucumber, SpecFlow, Behave) is desirable.
• Experience working inAgile/Scrumenvironments and collaborating with cross‑functional teams (Dev, QA, DevOps, Product, BA).

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