Qa Automation Lead

Centific; Hyderabad; Hybrid; INR 1,200,000 - 1,900,000; Full time

Job summary

Centific seeks an automation engineer to design and maintain robust C# based automation frameworks for Windows desktop applications. You will work with UFT and SilkTest to automate functional and regression tests, and you will leverage Silk Central for test management, execution, and reporting.

Knowledge of UIA and MSAA helps tackle legacy GUI challenges, with a focus on measurable acceptance criteria and defect lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Proficient in C# with strong programming skills for automation.
• Experience building/maintaining automation frameworks and test scripts.
• Hands-on with UFT for Windows desktop test automation.
• SilkTest experience for automation scripts.
• Silk Central for test management, execution, and reporting.
• Knowledge of UI Automation frameworks (UIA, MSAA) and COM/UI automation challenges.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain automated test scripts using C# and UFT/SilkTest.
• Contribute to test strategy, creating measurable acceptance criteria.
• Triaging defects and driving issues to resolution in a large Windows codebase.

Skills

C#

Test automation

Windows desktop apps

Tools

UFT

SilkTest

Silk Central

UIA

MSAA

Job description

C# strong programming experience for building and maintaining robust, maintainable automation frameworks and test scripts.

• UFT (Unified Functional Testing) hands-on experience automating functional and regression tests for Windows desktop applications.
• SilkTest demonstrated experience authoring and maintaining automated functional/regression scripts.
• Silk Central practical experience using Silk Central for test management, execution, scheduling, and results reporting.
• UI Automation/accessibility frameworks: working knowledge of UIA and MSAA, and the fragility of COM / UI automation in legacy desktop apps.
• Test design and defect lifecycle: ability to design test cases with measurable, quantified acceptance criteria (e.g., launch time, CPU/memory ceilings, recognition accuracy baselines) rather than subjective pass/fail, and to drive defects from triage to closure.
• Comfort working in a large, legacy enterprise Windows codebase with established patterns and constraints.

If the candidate has experience in any one of the below languages is advantageous.

Nice To Have Skills

• Background in speech, audio, NLP, or accessibility products (a plus, not required if Windows desktop automation depth is strong).
• Experience automating across Office integration surfaces (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams) and WebView2-based surfaces relevant to New Outlook (Monarch) and Copilot.
• Familiarity with installer-driven release risk, smoke-test gating, and regression exit criteria as delivery signals.
• Exposure to performance, stability, and long-session validation for desktop applications.
• Scripting beyond C# (e.g., PowerShell/Python) for test data, environment setup, and CI integration.