Senior QA Engineer — Web & Mobile

Bhive; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

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

This role requires hands-on automation, test design, API and SQL validation, CI/CD integration, and collaboration with developers to ship robust software from Bengaluru.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on QA automation experience across web and mobile.
• Experience building and owning automation frameworks end-to-end.
• Strong testing fundamentals and ability to mentor the QA team.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement test plans, cases, and automation strategy.
• Define automation vs manual test scope and regression planning.
• Own CI/CD integration and maintain suite health; reduce flaky tests.
• Perform functional, integration, API testing and SQL data validation.
• Collaborate with developers to reproduce and resolve issues; ensure quality.

Skills

Playwright

Appium

Automation framework

SDLC/STLC

Test design

JIRA

Git

CI/CD

Tools

Jenkins

Bitbucket Pipelines

GitHub Actions

Bugzilla

Percy

axe-core

Job description

Role Overview: We are looking for aSenior QA Automation Engineerwith 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, testscenarios, and the corresponding automation strategy.
• Participate in requirement analysis, design discussions, and review meetings to provideinput on testability, risk, and automation feasibility.
• Decide what belongs in automation vs. manual/exploratory testing and define theregression scope for each release.

Automation Framework Ownership

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

Test Execution

• Perform functional, integration, system, regression, and API testing on web and mobileapplications.
• Execute both manual and automated test cases; convert high-value repeatable manualcases 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 toclosure.
• Distinguish genuine product defects from test/environment issues before raising themnever mask a real bug by adjusting a test.
• Maintain clear, reproducible documentation of bugs, test results, and root-causefindings.

Reporting & Communication

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

Required Skills

Automation

• 4+ years of hands-on automation experience, with strong command of Playwright forweb UI automation.
• Hands-on experience with Appium for native/hybrid mobile app automation on Androidand iOS.
• Has built an automation framework from the ground up, not only added scripts to onethat already existed.
• Experience with API test automation and response/schema validation.
• Working knowledge of Git and branching workflows; comfortable raising and reviewingpull requests.
• Expert in test case design, test execution, and defect reporting.
• Strong understanding of the software development life cycle (SDLC) and softwaretesting life cycle (STLC).
• Solid grasp of test design techniques — boundary value analysis, equivalencepartitioning, 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-riskdependent services.
• Performance testing experience with JMeter, k6, or Gatling, and the ability to interpretresults.
• Security testing basics — OWASP Top 10 awareness, and use of tools such as OWASPZAP 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 environmentisolation.
• Experience defining a shift-left or in-sprint automation model and getting a team toadopt it.
• Exposure to observability tooling (Grafana, Datadog, Sentry) for correlating test failureswith 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 thanreport only the symptom.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to delivering high-quality results.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills; able to present quality status confidentlyto stakeholders.
• Ownership mindset — takes responsibility for release quality end to end.

Collaboration and communication: Proactive monitoring and collaboration with teammembers and internal departments are necessary to guarantee seamless operations at theCentre.

How the role Interact with other teams or Individuals: Ensure effective communication andcoordination between different cross functional teams to align the technology function withoverall business goals.

The BHIVE Group stands at the forefront of revolutionizing managed offices & enterprise coworking spaces, while democratizing investments in Bengaluru.

BHIVE’s Mission: The BHIVE Group’s mission is to be amongst the most loved and admired real estate companies of India by 2033

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Benefits : At BHIVE, we are committed to providing more than just a paycheck —we strive to create a supportive and rewarding work environment where employees feel valued, empowered, and motivated to excel. Our comprehensive benefits package includ es

We’re a passionate, youthful, and vibrant team, located in the heart of the city’s bustling Central Business District Equal Opportunity

Employer: BHIVE proudly stands as an Equal Opportunity Employer – By Choice. We firmly believe that we are most effective in helping our associates, customers, and the communities we serve, lead better lives when we genuinely understand them. This involves recognizing, respecting, and valuing diversity in terms of unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas, and opinions while fostering inclusivity for all individuals.

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