Quality Assurance Lead – Automation

Fairdeal.Market; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Fairdeal.Market is seeking a senior QA Automation Lead to build our quality engineering practice from the ground up in Gurugram. This hands-on leadership role requires designing a robust automation framework, maturing Appium scripts, and driving end-to-end test coverage across UI, API, and integrations.

You will collaborate with engineering, product, and DevOps to identify critical test scenarios, address data gaps, and ensure robust release readiness while mentoring the QA team and shaping an

Qualifications

• 5+ years in quality engineering or test automation.
• Proven UI and API automation experience.
• Experience with CI/CD environments.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the overall test strategy and automation roadmap for the platform.
• Design and build a scalable automation framework from scratch.
• Mature Appium scripts into a maintainable framework and expand coverage to UI, API, integration, and end-to-end tests.
• Collaborate with developers, DevOps, and product to prioritise critical test scenarios.
• Troubleshoot failures across application, framework, environment, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and ensure release readiness.
• Mentor QA engineers while staying hands-on.
• Review, validate, and improve AI-generated automation code before execution.
• Communicate coverage, results, and risks clearly to stakeholders.

Skills

UI automation

API automation

CI/CD

debugging

test strategy

test data

mentoring

Shell/ scripting

Claude Code

Cursor

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Appium

Job description

Role: Quality Assurance Lead - Automation

Experience: 5+years

Location: Gurugram

Fairdeal.Market is a rapidly growing B2B quick commerce company offering a wide range of products with delivery times as fast as 60 minutes. Our mission is to ensure that every shopping bag worldwide can be filled efficiently and sustainably. As we continue to scale, we are building the central systems that keep reordering, dark store operations, and our on-ground workforce running smoothly.

About the role

Fairdeal is hiring a Senior QA Automation Engineer to build our quality engineering practice from the ground up. This is a senior, hands‑on role with a clear starting point. We're looking for someone to do the early groundwork, design a proper framework around it, start delivering meaningful automation quickly, and shape a stronger quality culture across the team.

What you'll do

• Define and own the overall test strategy and automation roadmap for the platform
• Design and build a scalable automation framework largely from scratch - own architecture and tooling decisions
• Mature our existing Appium scripts into a real, maintainable framework, and expand coverage across UI, API, integration, and end-to-end workflows
• Collaborate with developers, DevOps, and product to identify test scenarios and prioritise coverage where it matters most
• Troubleshoot failures across the application, framework, environment, test data, authentication, or the CI/CD pipeline
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines
• Review requirements early to surface risks, missing acceptance criteria, dependencies, permissions, and test‑data gaps
• Mentor QA engineers and move the team toward an automation‑first quality engineering model - while staying hands‑on yourself
• Report clearly on coverage, execution results, defects, risks, and release readiness
• Work directly with engineering, product, architecture, and other stakeholders
• Use Claude Code and Cursor as a core part of your daily workflow - creating repeatable prompts, instructions, and agent workflows for test design, implementation, debugging, documentation, and root‑cause analysis
• Review, validate, and improve AI‑generated automation code before it's committed or executed

What we're looking for

• 4+ years in quality engineering, software testing, or test automation
• Strong UI and API automation experience
• Solid understanding of CI/CD environments
• Experience testing complex enterprise workflows across multiple systems and integration layers
• Strong grasp of test isolation, parallel execution, retries, reporting, tracing, and debugging
• REST API testing well beyond the happy path - authorization, negative, boundary, contract, resilience, idempotency, concurrency, and data‑validation scenarios
• Experience creating reusable API clients, test‑data builders, configuration utilities, and authentication components
• Strong programming, debugging, analytical, and problem‑solving skills
• Experience mentoring QA engineers while remaining actively hands‑on
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Hands‑on experience with both Claude Code and Cursor is required - including writing effective prompts and repository instructions, building repeatable agent workflows, and spotting and fixing incomplete, duplicated, or poorly designed AI‑generated code
• Familiarity with performance, accessibility, security, and observability testing
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline - or equivalent professional experience