Senior QA Automation Engineer

Hash Media; India; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Hash Media seeks a senior QA Automation Engineer to own end-to-end quality across mobile, web, and backend APIs. You will design automation strategies, build robust suites with Appium, Playwright/Cypress, and API tests, and integrate them into CI/CD for fast, reliable releases.

You will mentor junior QA and raise the testability bar across the product stack. Expect 10+ years in software quality assurance, hands-on automation leadership, and strong scripting in JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, or

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software quality assurance, with leadership in automation for mobile/web.
• Hands-on automation experience across apps and backend APIs.
• Strong scripting in JavaScript/TypeScript, Java or Python.

Responsibilities

• Own the test strategy across POS, mobile apps, web platforms and APIs.
• Build and maintain automation suites for apps, web, and backend APIs.
• Integrate tests into CI so PRs trigger reliable runs.
• Test devices and hardware scenarios beyond simulators.
• Design edge-case matrices for payments and offline behavior.
• Run regression, performance, and load tests ahead of releases.

Skills

Automation for mobile/web

Appium

Playwright

Cypress

Selenium

API testing

Postman

SQL

JavaScript/TypeScript/Java/Python

CI/CD integration

Mentoring/leadership

Tools

Appium

Playwright

Cypress

Selenium

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Postman

REST Assured

SQL tooling

Job description

Our software runs live restaurants, payment terminals and enterprise platforms — the kind of product where a defect shows up as a queue at a counter on a Saturday night, not as a line in a report. We're looking for an engineer with a decade behind them who owns quality end to end: designs the automation, breaks the product on real devices and real hardware, and holds the line on what ships.

What you'll do

• Own the test strategy across our POS, mobile apps, web platforms and APIs — what gets automated, what stays exploratory, and what blocks a release.
• Build and maintain automation suites: Appium for Android/iOS apps, Playwright or Cypress for web, and API-level suites for the backend.
• Wire those suites into CI so every pull request runs them — and keep them fast and stable enough that a red build is always believed.
• Test what a simulator cannot: thermal printers, cash drawers, card terminals (PAX, SUNMI, Verifone), offline-first billing and sync-queue recovery.
• Design the edge‑case matrix for payments and offline behaviour — connection lost mid-transaction, duplicate submissions, clock skew, partial sync, multi‑outlet data.
• Run regression, performance and load passes ahead of major releases, and report defects with reproducible steps, logs and evidence developers can act on immediately.
• Raise the team's testability bar: review features for how they will be verified, and mentor junior QA as the practice grows.

What you bring

• 10+ years in software quality assurance, including at least four leading automation for mobile and/or web products.
• Deep hands‑on experience with Appium and at least one modern web automation framework (Playwright, Cypress or Selenium).
• Strong API testing skills (Postman, REST Assured or equivalent), and enough SQL to verify what actually landed in the database.
• Real programming ability in JavaScript/TypeScript, Java or Python — you write maintainable test code, not disposable scripts.
• Experience integrating test suites into CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins or similar), including reporting and flake management.
• Structured test design: risk‑based prioritisation, boundary analysis, and clear written defect reports.
• The instinct to ask “what happens when this fails?” before asking “does this work?”

Bonus points

• POS, payments or fintech testing experience — EMV flows, PCI‑DSS environments, reconciliation.
• Managing a physical device lab, or Android/iOS store release processes.
• Performance testing with JMeter or k6, and basic security testing exposure.
• Experience testing AR/VR, 3D or hardware-integrated applications.