Senior Python Automation Testing

Quest Global; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Quest Global in Bengaluru, India seeks an experienced QA Automation Engineer to design, develop and maintain automated test suites using Playwright (TypeScript) for UI and API testing. You will integrate tests into CI/CD, convert manual tests to automation, and collaborate across frontend/backend teams to ensure quality across releases.

The role requires strong scripting skills, knowledge of REST/SOAP, and hands-on automation with Playwright, Cypress or Selenium, plus test strategy and agile

Qualifications

• Experience with test methodologies, automation frameworks, and agile practices.
• Hands-on manual and automated testing for web/PC software.
• Strong scripting in TypeScript/JavaScript and Playwright for UI/API tests.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain automated regression and smoke suites.
• Convert high-value manual tests to automated coverage.
• Integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines and report results.
• Automate API tests using Playwright and verify REST/SOAP services.
• Perform exploratory and manual API testing with Postman.
• Coordinate with developers to identify root causes and defects.

Skills

Test methodologies

Automation frameworks

AGILE Scrum

Manual testing

Coaching testers

Web/PC testing

Playwright

TypeScript

JavaScript

Selenium

API testing

CI/CD integration

REST/SOAP testing

Postman

JSON/XML contracts

API automation

Network/protocol basics

Education

Bachelor’s in Computer Science/IT/EEE

Tools

Playwright

Selenium

Cypress

REST Assured

SoapUI

JMeter

Grafana

Postman

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Work Experience

Essentials

• 1. Understanding and experience of software test methodologies & types of test automation
• frameworks
• 2. AGILE scrum methodology experience & Safe agile is mandatory.
• 3. Hands-on experience on manual testing & automating web-based or PC based software
• 4. Experience in coaching other testers.
• 5. Understanding and experience of various aspects of software and system testing, Functional,
• non-functional, integration, system, performance, robustness, compatibility, regression,
• customer mode testing.
• 6. CANDIDATES WITH WORKING KNOWLEDGE & HANDS ON ANY AUTOMATION TOOL LIKE TEST
• COMPLETE/PYTHON/SELENIUM WITH ROBOT FRAMEWORK ARE ESSENTIAL
• 7. WORKING KNOWLEDGE ON JAVASCRIPT, TYPE SCRIPT, PYTHON, SELENIUM, HTML, CCS
• 8. DESIGN BUILD AND MAINTAIN TEST AUTOMATION FRAMEWORKS USING
• TYPESCRIPT/JAVASCRIPT WITH PLAYWRIGHT MANDATORY
• 9. HANDS-ON TEST AUTOMATION EXPERIENCE WITH JAVASCRIPT AND TYPESCRIPT - MANDATORY
• 10. HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE WITH PLAYWRIGHT FOR BOTH UI AND API AUTOMATION - MANDATORY
• 11. Develop and maintain automated regression and smoke suites; keep them stable, reliable,
• and low-noise
• 12. Convert high-value manual regression cases into automated coverage
• 13. Integrate automated suites into CI/CD pipelines and report results back to the team
• 14. Automate API tests using Playwright's built-in API testing capabilities (APIRequestContext /
• request fixture) in TypeScript.
• 15. Perform exploratory and manual API testing using Postman or equivalent tools
• 16. Test REST services and SOAP services where applicable.
• 17. Validate applications against JSON/XML API contracts, including schema validation, error
• handling, authentication, and negative scenarios.
• 18. Combine UI and API layers in end-to-end scenarios using API calls for test setup, data
• seeding, and state verification.
• 19. Own quality assurance for assigned applications and features across frontend and backend
• layers

General

• 20. Identify, log, prioritise, and track defects to closure reproduce issues and partner with
• developers on root cause.
• 21. Contribute to test strategy, test plans, estimation, and quality gates within the SDLC.
• 22. Participate fully in Agile/Scrum ceremonies sprint planning, standups, reviews, and
• retrospectives.
• 23. Ensure compliance with web, cloud, browser, and API standards.
• 24. CANDIDATES WITH THE KNOWLEDGE OF DIFFERENT PROTOCOLS, LIKE MODBUS, HTTP, SNMP,
• IEC61850 WORKING KNOWLEDGE ON WIRESHARK FRAME TRACE, MODBUS LOGS ETC WOULD
• BE PREFERRED.
• 25. KNOWLEDGE ON ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTION DEVICES ARE PREFERABLE.

Desirable

• 1. Experience in using Atlassian tools: JIRA, Confluence
• 2. Rapid software testing, session-based testing, exploratory testing, context driven testing.
• 3. DESIGN AND EXECUTE PERFORMANCE, LOAD, AND STRESS TESTS USING GRAFANA K6 WITH A
• TYPESCRIPT-BASED FRAMEWORK.
• 4. Define performance scenarios and thresholds, analyse results, and report bottlenecks to the
• development team.
• 5. CYPRESS EXPERIENCE USING TYPESCRIPT, WHO ARE READY TO MOVE TO PLAYWRIGHT, WILL
• ALSO BE CONSIDERED
• 6. Basic Shell scripting (Bash) for environment and automation tasks
• 7. Understanding of SOAP/XML alongside JSON
• 8. Testing of electrical / energy IoT devices — connected hardware, device telemetry, and
• device-to-cloud communication
• 9. Experience with Grafana dashboards and observability tooling for interpreting performance
• results
• 10. Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or
• GitHub Actions
• 11. Additional automation and API tools — Selenium, Cypress, REST Assured, SoapUI, JMeter
• 12. SQL and database validation for backend verification
• 13. ISTQB or equivalent testing certification

PERSONAL QUALITIES & BEHAVIOURAL TRAITS

Essential

• 1. Clear and precise communication ability in English, written and verbal
• 2. Ability to challenge and question based on reasoned argument.
• 3. Application of analytical and critical thinking to counter challenges in work environment

Desirable

• 1. Resourcefulness Find ways of addressing impediments.
• 2. Perfectionist Constantly look for how the software and development / test process can be made
• better.
• 3. Initiator Capable of taking initiative of launching and trying new practices within the scrum
• teams.

Academic & qualifications

COMPUTER SCIENCE / IT ENGINEERING, EEE, E&C OR EQUIVALENT.