Qa Engineer

Centific; Hyderabad; Hybrid; INR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Centific is seeking an experienced test automation engineer to help build and maintain robust Windows desktop automation frameworks. You will design, implement, and maintain automated tests for functional and regression scenarios using UFT and SilkTest, while leveraging Silk Central for test management and reporting.

You will apply UI Automation frameworks (UIA and MSAA) to legacy desktop apps, and craft tests with measurable acceptance criteria.

Qualifications

• C# strong programming experience to build and maintain robust automation frameworks and test scripts.
• Hands-on UFT automating functional and regression tests for Windows desktop apps.
• SilkTest experience for automated functional/regression scripts.
• Silk Central experience for test management, execution, scheduling, and reporting.
• Working knowledge of UIA/MSAA and awareness of COM/UI automation fragility in legacy desktop apps.
• Ability to design tests with measurable acceptance criteria and drive defects from triage to closure.
• Comfort working in a large, legacy enterprise Windows codebase.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain robust Windows desktop automation frameworks and test scripts.
• Automate functional and regression tests using UFT and SilkTest.
• Create and maintain automated scripts with Silk Central for management and reporting.
• Apply UI Automation frameworks (UIA/MSAA) to desktop apps and address COM/UI automation fragility.
• Design tests with measurable criteria (launch time, resource usage, recognition accuracy) and manage defects through resolution.

Skills

C# programming

UFT

SilkTest

Silk Central

UI Automation (UIA)

Test design

Legacy Windows codebase experience

Speech/NLP accessibility (nice-to-have

Office/WebView2 automation

CI scripting (PowerShell/Python)

Tools

UFT

SilkTest

Silk Central

UI Automation

Job description

Role & responsibilities

Must Have Skills

• 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.