Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

TEKsystems; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

TEKsystems in Bengaluru, India seeks an experienced QA automation engineer to drive manual and automated testing across frontend and backend systems. You will implement Playwright-based UI and API tests, mentor other testers, and ensure robust automated coverage through CI/CD integration.

The role emphasizes hands-on testing, coaching teams, and collaborating in Agile ceremonies to improve SDLC quality and delivery timelines.

Qualifications

• Experience with software test methodologies and automation frameworks.
• Agile Scrum and Safe Agile experience mandatory.
• Hands-on testing (manual) and automation for web or PC software.
• Experience coaching other testers.
• Understanding of functional, non-functional, integration, system, performance, robustness, compatibility, regression testing.
• Hands-on with automation tools like TestComplete, Python, Selenium with Robot Framework.
• Hands-on experience with Playwright for UI and API automation.
• Develop and maintain automated regression and smoke suites; keep them stable.
• Convert high-value manual regression cases into automated coverage.
• Integrate automated suites into CI/CD and report results.
• Automate API tests using Playwright in TypeScript.
• Manual API testing with Postman or equivalent.
• Test REST and SOAP services; validate JSON/XML contracts.
• Combine UI and API for end-to-end scenarios.
• Own QA for assigned apps across frontend and backend.
• Identify, log, prioritise defects and work with developers on root cause.
• Contribute to test strategy, plans, estimation, and quality gates.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies.
• Knowledge of Modbus, HTTP, SNMP, IEC61850; Wireshark traces preferred.
• Knowledge of electrical distribution devices preferred.

Responsibilities

• Define test strategies and plans aligned with SDLC.
• Perform exploratory and automated testing of UI and API layers.
• Build and maintain regression and smoke test suites.
• Integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines and monitor results.
• Collaborate with developers to diagnose and fix defects.
• Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies and sprint planning.

Skills

Test methodologies

Agile/Safe Scrum

Manual testing

Coaching testers

Playwright UI

Playwright API

API testing

CI/CD integration

Postman testing

REST APIs

SOAP testing

JSON schema

XML schema

End-to-end tests

Automation tools

Wireshark

Modbus protocols

Electrical devices

Job description

1. Understanding and experience of software test methodologies & types of test automation frameworks

2. AGILE scrum methodology experience & Safe agile is mandatory.

3. Hands-on experience on manual testing & automating web-based or PC based software

4. Experience in coaching other testers.

5. Understanding and experience of various aspects of software and system testing, Functional, non-functional, integration, system, performance, robustness, compatibility, regression, customer mode testing.

6. CANDIDATES WITH WORKING KNOWLEDGE & HANDS ON ANY AUTOMATION TOOL LIKE TEST COMPLETE/PYTHON/SELENIUM WITH ROBOT FRAMEWORK ARE ESSENTIAL

10. HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE WITH PLAYWRIGHT FOR BOTH UI AND API AUTOMATION - MANDATORY

11. Develop and maintain automated regression and smoke suites; keep them stable, reliable, and low-noise

12. Convert high-value manual regression cases into automated coverage

13. Integrate automated suites into CI/CD pipelines and report results back to the team

14. Automate API tests using Playwright's built-in API testing capabilities (APIRequestContext / request fixture) in TypeScript.

15. Perform exploratory and manual API testing using Postman or equivalent tools

16. Test REST services and SOAP services where applicable.

17. Validate applications against JSON/XML API contracts, including schema validation, error handling, authentication, and negative scenarios.

18. Combine UI and API layers in end-to-end scenarios using API calls for test setup, data seeding, and state verification.

19. Own quality assurance for assigned applications and features across frontend and backend layers General

20. Identify, log, prioritise, and track defects to closure reproduce issues and partner with developers on root cause.

21. Contribute to test strategy, test plans, estimation, and quality gates within the SDLC.

22. Participate fully in Agile/Scrum ceremonies sprint planning, standups, reviews, and retrospectives.

24. CANDIDATES WITH THE KNOWLEDGE OF DIFFERENT PROTOCOLS, LIKE MODBUS, HTTP, SNMP, IEC61850 WORKING KNOWLEDGE ON WIRESHARK FRAME TRACE, MODBUS LOGS ETC WOULD BE PREFERRED.

25. KNOWLEDGE ON ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTION DEVICES ARE PREFERABLE.