Senior QA Engineer

Refinitiv; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 2,500,000 - 4,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Career development and growth

Mental health days

Job summary

Refinitiv in Bengaluru seeks a Sr. QA Automation Engineer to lead automation strategy using Playwright/C#. You will architect testing standards, mentor teams, and drive CI/CD quality across features with AI-assisted tooling like Claude.

Responsibilities include maintaining UI/API test suites, participating in Agile ceremonies, and ensuring comprehensive test coverage while supporting deployment quality and production support.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years in software automation testing or related development.
• Strong UI and API test automation with Playwright and C#.
• Experience with BDD-based frameworks (SpecFlow) for UI and API testing.
• Proven API and end-to-end automated test suites; cloud-based services.

Responsibilities

• Define automation architecture and testing standards.
• Mentor teams, drive CI/CD quality gates, lead quality initiatives.
• Develop and maintain test cases and automation strategies.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Product, and Operations for coverage.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and support production issues.

Skills

Playwright

API Testing

Test Case Writing

C#

Manual Testing

AI-driven Automation

Claude for QA

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

Playwright

SpecFlow

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Sr. QA Automation Engineer

Expert-level Playwright, API Testing, and Test Case Writing, with strong hands‑on experience in C#, Manual Testing, AI-driven Automation, and Claude for QA strategy, framework design, and test automation leadership. Candidate should be capable of defining automation architecture and testing standards, mentoring teams, driving CI/CD quality gates, and leading end‑to‑end quality engineering initiatives independently.

About the Role

Learn, evaluate, and leverage cutting‑edge testing technologies and tools to drive efficiency and scalability.

Proactively research industry trends, emerging best practices, and apply them to improve overall software quality.

Utilize and enhance existing automation frameworks, platforms, and design patterns to reduce delivery lead time.

Ensure quality is embedded across the entire CI/CD pipeline.

Provide effective, actionable code review feedback to both Development and QA team members.

Collaborate closely with Engineering, Product, and Operations teams to ensure comprehensive test coverage for all features.

Promote high‑quality releases by leveraging expertise within the team and across the organization.

Perform manual verification and validation of new features, enhancements, and defect fixes as needed.

Design, develop, and maintain test cases and test automation strategies.

Actively participate in Agile ceremonies including daily stand‑ups, sprint planning, estimation, and backlog grooming.

Support product releases and assist with third‑level (Tier 3) production support.

Champion a strong quality mindset throughout the entire software development lifecycle.

About You

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related engineering field, or equivalent practical experience.

7+ years of hands‑on experience in software automation testing or software development.

Strong expertise in UI and API test automation using Playwright with C#.

Hands‑on experience with BDD‑based automation frameworks (e.g., SpecFlow) for both UI and API testing.

Proven experience authoring and maintaining API and end‑to‑end (E2E) automated test suites.

Experience testing complex, distributed, cloud‑based solutions.

Demonstrated ability to execute test automation at scale in fast‑paced delivery environments.

Strong experience working with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation to ensure continuous quality.

Exposure to AI‑assisted coding tools, such as GitHub Copilot, to improve productivity and code quality.

Hands‑on experience contributing to or enhancing in‑house automation frameworks, tools, and utilities.

Proficiency in C# or another object‑oriented programming language.

Experience with performance and scalability testing.

JMeter scripting and test execution experience for load, stress, or performance testing. #LI-AD2

What’s in it For You?

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office‑based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work‑life balance.
• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real‑world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills‑first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI‑enabled future.
• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company‑wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Culture: Globally recognized, award‑winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work‑life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro‑bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
• Making a Real‑World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news. We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them.

Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward. As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug‑free workplace. We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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