Senior QA Engineers (Offshore role)

PEOPLE FORCE CONSULTING INC; Delhi; Remote; INR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Part time

Job summary

A technology consulting firm is seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer for a remote role in India. The ideal candidate will have 10-15 years of experience, with strong expertise in Cypress for web automation and Appium for mobile testing. Responsibilities include delivering high-quality software across web, mobile, and APIs, as well as collaborating with engineering teams to enhance automation strategies. Familiarity with microservices, Azure DevOps, and strong REST API testing skills are essential.

Qualifications

• 10–15 years of experience in QA automation engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience with Cypress and Appium.
• Experience testing microservices and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead automation strategy across web, mobile, and APIs.
• Stabilize flaky tests and debug issues.
• Collaborate with backend engineers on testability.

Skills

Cypress for E2E testing

Appium for mobile automation

REST API testing

Azure DevOps Pipelines

Angular

Tools

Postman

JMeter

Job description

Overview

Location: Remote role (Anywhere in India) but work as per EST hr for our projects in Toronto, Canada

Duration: contract role (6+ months)

Note: Working hour EST Time Zone

Need an immediate joiner (within 2–3 weeks)

Job Description:

Experience: 10–15 years

Role Summary

We are looking for a Senior QA Automation Engineer with strong Cypress-first web automation, Appium mobile automation, and experience operating in an Azure-native, microservices-based environment.

This is a hands-on role requiring ownership of quality across web, mobile, and APIs, with the ability to embed directly into engineering teams and drive automation strategy.

Must-Have Skills (Non-Negotiable)

• Web Automation (Primary)
  • Strong hands-on experience with Cypress for E2E testing
  • Page Object Model or component-based patterns
  • Robust selector strategies (data-test IDs, avoiding brittle selectors)
• Proven ability to debug and stabilize flaky tests
• Hands-on Appium experience for Android and iOS
• Experience testing Flutter-based mobile applications
• API Testing & Automation
• Strong REST API testing fundamentals
• Experience with Postman/Newman or equivalent
• Comfortable validating authentication, pagination, idempotency, error handling, and contract adherence
• Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps Pipelines
• Integrating automated tests into CI/CD workflows
• Experience with test stages, quality gates, artifacts, reporting, and environment-aware execution

Required Technical Context (Senior-Level Expectations)

Frontend

• Working knowledge of Angular
• Ability to validate UI workflows end-to-end
• Experience testing .NET-based APIs
• Comfortable collaborating with backend engineers on testability, mocking, and integration testing
• Strong experience testing microservices and distributed systems
• Understanding of asynchronous workflows, retries, eventual consistency, and idempotent APIs

Data

• Familiarity with Cosmos DB
• Data validation patterns, query verification, and test data setup/teardown

Non-Functional Testing

• Performance testing using tools such as k6 or JMeter
• Ability to interpret results and drive improvements
• Security awareness including OWASP top risks and basic authN/authZ validation

Strongly Preferred

• Azure Application Insights and telemetry validation
• Release readiness and go-live support
• Triage leadership during release windows
• Flaky test management and parallelization strategies