QA Engineer - Manual & Automation (SDET)

Sagepilot AI; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Sagepilot AI in Bengaluru, India seeks a hands-on QA Engineer to establish manual testing, automation, and release validation practices for a fast-growing product team.

You will own release testing, build test artifacts, perform exploratory testing, and implement automated UI/API tests while integrating checks into CI/CD pipelines. A proactive, ownership-driven mindset is essential for impacting live customer traffic.

Qualifications

• 1-3 years of QA experience, including manual testing and hands-on automation.
• Strong understanding of functional, regression, integration, and exploratory testing.
• Familiarity with tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or pytest.
• Basic SQL and Git skills, with an ability to investigate issues using logs and network requests.
• Clear communication, attention to detail, and good judgement about what to test first.

Responsibilities

• Own release testing: run smoke and regression checks, validate critical customer flows, and communicate release readiness.
• Build and maintain test cases, regression checklists, and reusable test data.
• Perform exploratory testing across the product, covering edge cases, permissions, integrations, and failure scenarios.
• Write and maintain automated UI and API tests, prioritising critical flows and recurring bugs.
• Report bugs with clear reproduction steps and supporting evidence; work with engineers to verify fixes.
• Integrate automated checks into CI/CD and keep the test suite reliable as the product evolves.

Skills

Manual testing

Automation

Playwright

Cypress

Selenium

pytest

SQL basics

Git basics

Test case development

Tools

Playwright

Cypress

Selenium

pytest

SQL

Git

Job description

Sagepilot builds AI-powered customer support and engagement products. We're looking for a hands-on QA Engineer to help establish our manual testing, automation, and release validation practices.

You'll work closely with a the engineering team shipping rapidly and serving live customer traffic. This role suits someone who takes ownership, understands customer impact, and enjoys building testing practices in a growing product team.

What you'll do

• Own release testing: run smoke and regression checks, validate critical customer flows, and communicate release readiness.
• Build and maintain test cases, regression checklists, and reusable test data.
• Perform exploratory testing across the product, covering edge cases, permissions, integrations, and failure scenarios.
• Write and maintain automated UI and API tests, prioritising critical flows and recurring bugs.
• Report bugs with clear reproduction steps and supporting evidence; work with engineers to verify fixes.
• Integrate automated checks into CI/CD and keep the test suite reliable as the product evolves.

What we're looking for

• 1-3 years of QA experience, including manual testing and hands-on automation.
• Strong understanding of functional, regression, integration, and exploratory testing.
• Familiarity with tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or pytest.
• Basic SQL and Git skills, with an ability to investigate issues using logs and network requests.
• Clear communication, attention to detail, and good judgement about what to test first.

You’ll fit well if:

You spot problems and act without waiting for a ticket. You enjoy ownership, move fast, and follow things through. You're comfortable with changing priorities and excited to build the QA foundation alongside a small, ambitious engineering team.