Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Happiehire; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Happiehire in Bengaluru seeks a QA Automation Engineer to own quality, reliability, and performance of web apps. You will design test scenarios, implement automated UI and API scripts, and perform exploratory testing to scale validation.

The role involves API testing, load testing, and basic security validation, with emphasis on maintaining clear automation scripts and test reports. Collaboration with CI/CD pipelines is a plus.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of software testing fundamentals and regression testing.
• Hands-on experience or familiarity with web automation tools like Selenium or Playwright.
• Solid understanding of REST APIs, JSON, HTTP methods, and Postman or automated API testing libraries.
• Familiarity with load testing tools to simulate user traffic (e.g., JMeter, K6, Locust).
• Excellent documentation skills for tracking bugs and maintaining clear automation scripts.

Responsibilities

• Develop test strategies and comprehensive test scenarios for web apps and APIs.
• Design, write, and maintain automated regression suites for UI and API testing.
• Perform API testing, validate logs, and ensure data integrity across endpoints.
• Create basic load/stress tests to assess performance and reliability under load.
• Document test results, coverage, and API traces in reports.

Skills

Testing fundamentals

Automation Frameworks

API Testing

Load Testing

Attention to Detail

Tools

Selenium

Playwright

Postman

pytest

requests/axios

Job description

Experience: 4+ years

Role Overview:

We are looking for a QA Automation Engineer to own the quality, reliability, and performance of our web applications. This role bridges the gap between functional testing and automated validation. You will design comprehensive test scenarios, perform exploratory testing, and build automated test scripts for both UI and APIs to scale our testing efforts.

Key Responsibilities:

• Test Strategy and Execution: Understand product requirements and create comprehensive test scenarios, edge cases and automated regression suites
• Automation: Design, write, and maintain automated test scripts for web applications and APIs.
• API Testing and Validation: Perform exploratory, functional and programmatic API testing, capturing and validating request/response logs using automation frameworks or tools like Postman.
• Load Testing: Design and execute basic load and stress tests on APIs and web application endpoints to identify performance bottlenecks and evaluate system stability under traffic.
• Security Testing: Perform basic security testing of web applications and APIs to identify common vulnerabilities, including authentication and authorization issues, improper access controls, input validation vulnerabilities and sensitive data exposure.
• Reporting: Maintain structured test reports documenting execution status, automation coverage, and API trace logs.

Required Skills:

• Testing fundamentals: Strong understanding of software testing fundamentals (test cases, design, regression testing)
• Automation Frameworks: Hands-on experience or strong familiarity with web automation tools (e.g. Selenium or Playwright)
• API Testing: Solid understanding of REST APIs, JSON, HTTP methods, and experience with Postman or automated API testing libraries (pytest + requests, axios/supertest)
• Load Testing tools: Familiarity with at least one performance and load testing tool (JMeter, K6, Locust) to simulate user traffic.
• Attention to Detail: Excellent documentation skills for tracking bugs and maintaining clear automation scripts.

Good to have:

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines such as GitHub Actions or Jenkins
• Familiarity with Git version-control workflows