Senior QA Engineer — Web & Mobile

BHIVE Workspace; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,800,000; Full time

Job summary

BHIVE Workspace in Bengaluru is seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer with 7+ years of software testing experience. You will own automation across web (Playwright) and mobile (Appium), drive end-to-end frameworks, and mentor the QA team while shaping quality strategy.

You will collaborate with developers, product managers, and business analysts to ensure quality across releases, optimize CI/CD, and improve testability and coverage throughout the SDLC.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of software testing experience.
• Hands-on automation across web (Playwright) and mobile (Appium).
• Experience owning automation frameworks end to end.

Responsibilities

• Develop detailed test plans, cases, and automation strategy.
• Decide what belongs in automation vs manual testing and define regression scope.
• Integrate automation suites into CI/CD pipelines with reporting and health checks.
• Perform functional, integration, system, regression, and API testing on web and mobile apps.
• Collaborate with developers to reproduce, analyze, and resolve issues; ensure closure.
• Mentor junior QA engineers on automation practices and testing fundamentals.

Skills

Playwright

Appium

Framework design

API testing

Git & PRs

SDLC/STLC

Test design

CI/CD

Tools

JIRA

Bugzilla

Jenkins

Bitbucket Pipelines

GitHub Actions

Job description

Role Overview

We are looking for a Senior QA Automation Engineer with a minimum of 7 years

of software testing experience, including strong hands-on automation across web (Playwright)

and mobile (Appium) platforms. The ideal candidate owns automation frameworks end to end,

brings a strong testing-fundamentals background, and can independently drive quality strategy

across product releases while mentoring the wider QA team.

Key Responsibilities

Test Planning & Design

• Understand project requirements and develop detailed test plans, test cases, test scenarios, and the corresponding automation strategy.
• Participate in requirement analysis, design discussions, and review meetings to provide input on testability, risk, and automation feasibility.
• Decide what belongs in automation vs. manual/exploratory testing and define the regression scope for each release.

Automation Framework Ownership

• Establish and enforce framework conventions — page/domain helpers, fixtures, test data builders, reusable utilities — so the suite stays maintainable as it grows.
• Integrate automated suites into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins / Bitbucket Pipelines / GitHub Actions) with scheduled runs, parallel execution, and actionable reporting.
• Own suite health: investigate and eliminate flaky tests, reduce execution time, and keep pass-rate signal trustworthy.

Test Execution

• Perform functional, integration, system, regression, and API testing on web and mobile applications.
• Execute both manual and automated test cases; convert high-value repeatable manual cases into automated coverage.
• Validate backend behaviour through API testing (REST) and SQL database checks.
• Work closely with developers to reproduce, analyze, and resolve issues; drive them to closure.
• Distinguish genuine product defects from test/environment issues before raising them never mask a real bug by adjusting a test.
• Maintain clear, reproducible documentation of bugs, test results, and root-cause findings.

Reporting & Communication

• Prepare test reports summarizing test activities, automation coverage, outcomes, and quality metrics.
• Communicate test progress, release readiness, risks, and results to stakeholders and leadership.
• Publish periodic quality dashboards (coverage, defect trends, automation pass rate, execution time).
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including developers, product managers, and business analysts to ensure software quality.
• Review automation code written by other QA engineers and enforce coding and design standards.
• Mentor junior and mid-level QA engineers on automation practices, debugging techniques, and testing fundamentals.

Required Skills

Automation

• 4+ years of hands-on automation experience, with strong command of Playwright for web UI automation.
• Hands-on experience with Appium for native/hybrid mobile app automation on Android and iOS.
• Has built an automation framework from the ground up, not only added scripts to one that already existed.
• Experience with API test automation and response/schema validation.
• Working knowledge of Git and branching workflows; comfortable raising and reviewing pull requests.
• Expert in test case design, test execution, and defect reporting.
• Strong understanding of the software development life cycle (SDLC) and software testing life cycle (STLC).
• Solid grasp of test design techniques — boundary value analysis, equivalence partitioning, decision tables, risk-based testing.

Tools & Technologies

• Bug tracking tools such as JIRA, Bugzilla, or similar.
• CI/CD tooling — Jenkins, Bitbucket Pipelines, GitHub Actions, or similar.

Domain Knowledge

• Proven experience testing both web and mobile applications.
• Good working knowledge of SQL for database testing and data validation.
• Familiarity with performance or security testing basics is an added advantage.

Good to Have

• Experience introducing contract testing, service virtualisation, or API mocking to de-risk dependent services.
• Performance testing experience with JMeter, k6, or Gatling, and the ability to interpret results.
• Security testing basics — OWASP Top 10 awareness, and use of tools such as OWASP ZAP or Burp Suite.
• Experience with visual regression and accessibility automation (Percy, axe-core, Lighthouse).
• Docker/Kubernetes familiarity for containerised test execution.
• Experience defining and tracking quality KPIs — escaped-defect rate, automation ROI, mean time to triage.
• Test data management strategy at scale — seeding, masking, and environment isolation.
• Experience defining a shift-left or in-sprint automation model and getting a team to adopt it.
• Exposure to observability tooling (Grafana, Datadog, Sentry) for correlating test failures with system behaviour.
• Experience applying AI-assisted tooling to test generation, failure triage, or code review, with judgement about where it should not be trusted.

Soft Skills

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills; able to root-cause an issue rather than report only the symptom.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to delivering high-quality results.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills; able to present quality status confidently to stakeholders.
• Ownership mindset — takes responsibility for release quality end to end.

Collaboration and communication

Proactive monitoring and collaboration with team members and internal departments are necessary to guarantee seamless operations at the Centre.

How the role Interact with other teams or Individuals

Ensure effective communication and coordination between different cross functional teams to align the technology function with overall business goals.