SDET QA Automation Lead

Neurealm Company; Chennai; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Neurealm Company seeks an experienced Senior/Lead QA Automation Engineer to drive quality across healthcare-focused web, API, and backend systems. You will champion Shift-Left practices, modernize automation frameworks with Playwright, and build scalable solutions with strong SDET fundamentals.

You will collaborate with customers, architects, and developers to design robust automation and ensure comprehensive test coverage through automated end-to-end, API, and data-driven testing.

Qualifications

• Senior/Lead QA Automation Engineer with SDET mindset.
• Experience in test automation framework design and modernization.
• Proficiency in Playwright and Selenium for web/API testing.
• Experience integrating tests with CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Define and own Test Plans, Strategies, and QA approaches for complex healthcare apps.
• Establish testing scope, criteria, risk models, and quality gates across SDLC.
• Design end-to-end tests and traceability from requirements to quality outcomes.
• Drive Agile, Shift-Left, risk-based, and exploratory testing.
• Lead Playwright-based automation frameworks and migrate from Selenium.
• Architect reusable framework components and CI/CD integration.
• Mentor teams on framework design and automation best practices.
• Design and execute API testing strategies for microservices and RESTful apps.

Skills

Playwright

Selenium

CI/CD

SDET mindset

Test plans

Automation framework

API testing

Shift-Left

Exploratory testing

Tools

Playwright

Selenium

Job description

Job Description:

We are seeking a highly skilled, customer-facing Senior / Lead QA Automation Engineer with deep expertise in Quality Engineering, Test Automation Framework Development, Playwright, CI/CD Integration.

This role requires a strong Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) mindset, combining robust testing fundamentals with hands-on automation architecture, programming expertise, and strategic quality leadership. The ideal candidate will champion Shift-Left testing practices, lead automation framework modernization initiatives, and drive quality engineering excellence across web, API, and backend systems.

As a senior technical leader, you will work directly with customers, architects, developers, and business stakeholders to design scalable quality solutions, remove delivery bottlenecks, and establish enterprise-grade automation practices. This role demands excellent technical depth, strong problem-solving ability, and the capability to articulate complex technical concepts with confidence.

Key Responsibilities

Testing Strategy, Quality Engineering & Test Design

• Define and own comprehensive Test Plans, Test Strategies, and quality assurance approaches for complex healthcare applications.
• Establish testing scope, entry and exit criteria, risk assessment models, and quality gates across the SDLC.
• Design effective test cases and end-to-end business scenarios using industry-standard test design techniques.
• Ensure complete traceability between business requirements, test coverage, defects, and quality outcomes.
• Drive adoption of Agile, Shift-Left, Risk-Based, and Exploratory Testing methodologies.
• Partner with business and product teams to ensure critical healthcare workflows receive adequate coverage.

Framework Architecture & Automation Engineering

Playwright & Selenium Framework Leadership

• Architect, develop, and maintain scalable test automation frameworks using Playwright.
• Lead automation modernization efforts, including migration from legacy Selenium-based frameworks to modern Playwright-based solutions.
• Design reusable framework components, utilities, reporting modules, test execution engines, and configuration management layers.
• Implement robust automation solutions supporting:
• Parallel execution
• Data-driven testing
• CI/CD integration
• Automated reporting
• Define and maintain framework architecture, package structures, folder hierarchies, and coding standards.
• Apply Object-Oriented Programming principles, design patterns, and software engineering best practices.
• Conduct framework reviews and recommend scalability, maintainability, and performance improvements.
• Mentor engineering teams on framework design and automation development best practices.
• Design and execute automated API testing strategies for microservices and RESTful applications.
• Implement contract testing, integration testing, and service-level validation frameworks.
• Validate end-to-end business transactions across application, service, and database layers.
• Develop automated solutions for test data creation, API mocking, and service virtualization.

Flaky Test Elimination & Troubleshooting

• Investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve unstable automation executions.
• Perform deep-root-cause analysis using:
• Playwright Trace Viewer
• Execution Logs
• Monitoring Platforms
• Optimize synchronization strategies, locator design, waits, retries, and test stability mechanisms.
• Improve automation reliability, execution performance, and maintenance efficiency.

CI/CD, Observability & Quality Orchestration

• Integrate automation frameworks with enterprise CI/CD pipelines using: