Senior QA Automation Engineer

Mantras2Success; Ahmedabad District; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Mantras2Success in India is seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer to own quality across an integration-heavy platform, spanning UI, API, performance, security, and CI/CD quality gates.

You will build Playwright automation, perform API testing, test asynchronous flows, run load tests, and mentor the QA team while shaping test strategies across multiple testing domains.

Qualifications

• Expert hands-on Playwright UI/API automation.
• Strong API testing with Postman/Newman or REST Assured.
• Hands-on RabbitMQ/SQS and event-driven testing.
• Security/VAPT testing with Burp Suite, OWASP ZAP, Nmap, Nikto, or SQLMap.
• Hands-on AI-based testing and AI-assisted automation.
• Strong manual testing and test design knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain test strategy across unit, contract, API, E2E, performance, security, and manual testing.
• Build and maintain Playwright automation using TypeScript/JavaScript, Java, or Python, including fixtures, authentication, parallel execution, trace viewer, and Allure.
• Perform API testing across REST, gRPC, and GraphQL using Postman/Newman, REST Assured, or Playwright APIRequest, including schema, authentication, negative scenarios, and contract testing.
• Test asynchronous flows using RabbitMQ, SQS, and webhooks, covering eventual consistency, ordering, idempotency, retries, and DLQs.
• Execute JMeter load, stress, soak, and spike testing and analyse p95/p99 latency, throughput, and bottlenecks. Exposure to k6/Gatling is a plus.
• Perform Security/VAPT testing using Burp Suite, OWASP ZAP, Nmap, Nikto, and SQLMap, covering OWASP Top 10 and API Top 10.
• Implement AI-assisted testing using AI test generation, Playwright MCP, Copilot, self-healing locators, visual AI, and LLM testing.
• Drive exploratory, risk-based, and UAT testing using BVA, equivalence partitioning, decision tables, and state transitions.
• Work with WireMock, LocalStack, and Testcontainers for service virtualisation and test data.
• Implement CI/CD quality gates using Jenkins, Bitbucket, Pact, OpenAPI/AsyncAPI diff, and axe-core.
• Monitor flaky tests, defect lifecycle, quality metrics, and test coverage, while mentoring QA team members.

Skills

Playwright automation

API testing

Event-driven testing

Security testing

AI-assisted testing

Manual testing

CI/CD quality gates

Test design

SQL validation

Tools

Postman/Newman

REST Assured

Playwright APIRequest

JMeter

Burp Suite

OWASP ZAP

Nmap

Nikto

SQLMap

LocalStack

Job description

ABOUT THE ROLE:

We are looking for a Senior QA Automation Engineer to own quality across an integration-heavy platform, covering automation, API, asynchronous testing, performance, security, manual testing, and CI/CD quality.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Define and maintain test strategy across unit, contract, API, E2E, performance, security, and manual testing.


• Build and maintain Playwright automation using TypeScript/JavaScript, Java, or Python, including fixtures, authentication, parallel execution, trace viewer, and Allure.


• Perform API testing across REST, gRPC, and GraphQL using Postman/Newman, REST Assured, or Playwright APIRequest, including schema, authentication, negative scenarios, and contract testing.


• Test asynchronous flows using RabbitMQ, SQS, and webhooks, covering eventual consistency, ordering, idempotency, retries, and DLQs.


• Execute JMeter load, stress, soak, and spike testing and analyse p95/p99 latency, throughput, and bottlenecks. Exposure to k6/Gatling is a plus.


• Perform Security/VAPT testing using Burp Suite, OWASP ZAP, Nmap, Nikto, and SQLMap, covering OWASP Top 10 and API Top 10.


• Implement AI-assisted testing using AI test generation, Playwright MCP, Copilot, self-healing locators, visual AI, and LLM testing.


• Drive exploratory, risk-based, and UAT testing using BVA, equivalence partitioning, decision tables, and state transitions.


• Work with WireMock, LocalStack, and Testcontainers for service virtualisation and test data.


• Implement CI/CD quality gates using Jenkins, Bitbucket, Pact, OpenAPI/AsyncAPI diff, and axe-core.


• Monitor flaky tests, defect lifecycle, quality metrics, and test coverage, while mentoring QA team members.

REQUIRED SKILLS:

• Expert hands-on experience with Playwright for UI/API automation.


• Strong API testing with Postman/Newman, REST Assured, or Playwright APIRequest.


• Hands-on RabbitMQ/SQS, webhooks, and event-driven testing.


• Expert JMeter experience including correlation, parameterisation, distributed testing, and result analysis.


• Hands-on Security/VAPT with Burp Suite, OWASP ZAP, Nmap, Nikto, and SQLMap.


• Hands-on AI-based testing and AI-assisted automation.


• Strong manual testing and test design knowledge.


• Hands-on TypeScript/JavaScript with Java or Python.


• Hands-on Jenkins, Bitbucket, and Allure.


• Strong SQL and data validation across databases, queues, and logs.

GOOD TO HAVE:

• Pact, Pact Broker, can-i-deploy, OpenAPI/AsyncAPI diffing.


• axe-core and WCAG 2.2 AA.


• AWS, SQS, S3, LocalStack, Kibana, and Zipkin.


• k6, Gatling, Toxiproxy, and chaos/resilience testing.


• ISTQB Advanced, CEH, eJPT, or OSCP.