Senior Technical Lead

guardian india operations; India; Presencial; INR 2 000 000 - 3 500 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

Guardian India Operations is seeking a Senior Technical Lead for QA to drive automation strategy across UI and API domains in India. The role requires mentoring junior engineers, building scalable test frameworks, and collaborating with cross-functional teams in Agile environments.

The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with Playwright, REST API testing, and CI/CD integration, with a focus on quality and efficiency in delivery.

Qualificações

• 6–8 years of experience in QA, software testing, or quality engineering.
• At least 4 years of hands-on automation testing across UI and API.
• Experience building automation frameworks and reusable test components.
• Experience with REST API testing and automation using RestAssured, Postman, Newman, or equivalent tools.
• Experience in Agile/Scrum environments with distributed stakeholders.

Responsabilidades

• Requirement clarification: Partner with product owners and developers to align test scenarios with business intent and acceptance criteria.
• Backlog and test planning: Grooming, sprint planning, define test coverage and automation opportunities.
• UI and API test development: Build reusable components, data strategies, API contracts, end-to-end flows.
• Execution and reporting: Run automated test suites, analyze results, identify trends, provide insights.
• CI/CD integration: Integrate tests into Jenkins/Git pipelines for continuous testing and faster feedback.
• Defect identification and RCA: Identify defects early and collaborate on permanent fixes.
• Testability and engineering partnership: Improve testability with stable selectors, test IDs, mocks, and data setup.
• UAT and business support: Assist users during UAT with clarification and quick triage.
• Documentation and best practices: Maintain automation guidelines and framework standards.
• AI-assisted quality engineering: Use AI tools to accelerate automation creation and maintenance.
• Continuous improvement: Drive better automation coverage, reliability, and sprint quality.
• Team leadership: Mentor junior QA engineers and promote knowledge sharing.
• Work shift: Collaborate with US teams in overlapping time zones as required.

Conhecimentos

UI automation

Playwright

Selenium

Ferramentas

Jenkins

Git

Postman

Newman

RestAssured

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Career Opportunities: Senior Technical Lead (181673)

Requisition ID181673-Posted10/27/2026

Key Skills

UI automation: Strong hands-on experience with Playwright as the preferred tool, with Selenium as a plus.

Framework design: Ability to design and enhance scalable automation frameworks using hybrid, keyword-driven, data-driven, BDD, and Page Object Model approaches.

End-to-end testing: Ability to connect UI, API, integration, regression, smoke, and functional test coverage across application flows.

CI/CD and DevOps: Experience with Jenkins, Git, pipelines, test reporting, debugging tools, and continuous testing practices.

Quality engineering fundamentals: Strong understanding of SDLC, STLC, Agile/Scrum, quality gates, defect prevention, and test coverage strategy.

AI-assisted testing: Ability to use tools such as GitHub Copilot, Playwright AI-assisted locators, and test generators to accelerate script creation, refactoring, and documentation.

Additional exposure: Performance testing tools such as JMeter or Gatling, accessibility testing, security testing, and regulated domain experience are preferred.

Key Responsibilities

6–8 years of experience in QA, software testing, or quality engineering.

At least 4 years of hands-on automation testing experience across UI and API automation.

Strong experience building automation frameworks and reusable test components.

Experience with REST API testing and automation using RestAssured, Postman, Newman, or equivalent tools.

Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams with distributed stakeholders.

Strong analytical, debugging, communication, and problem-solving skills.

Ability to mentor junior QA engineers, conduct automation code reviews, and influence quality practices across teams.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in insurance, financial services, healthcare, or other regulated domains.

Exposure to performance, security, and accessibility testing for web applications.

Working knowledge of AWS or other cloud platforms.

Experience improving automation maturity, test stability, release confidence, and sprint quality metrics.

Skill Requirements

Roles and Responsibilities

Requirement clarification: Partner with Product Owners, developers, Lead Engineers, and technical teams to ensure test scenarios align with business intent and acceptance criteria.

Backlog and test planning: Participate in grooming and sprint planning, refine acceptance criteria, define test coverage, and ensure automation opportunities are embedded into sprint scope.

UI and API test development: Build reusable test components, utilities, test data strategies, service validations, API contracts, and end-to-end automated test flows.

Execution and reporting: Execute automated regression, smoke, functional, integration, and API test suites; analyze results, identify failure trends, and communicate actionable insights.

CI/CD integration: Integrate automated tests into Jenkins/Git-based pipelines to support continuous testing, quality gates, and faster release feedback.

Defect identification and RCA: Identify defects early, perform root cause analysis, collaborate with developers on permanent fixes, and improve defect prevention practices.

Testability and engineering partnership: Collaborate with UI and backend engineers to improve testability through stable selectors, test IDs, API readiness, mocks, data setup, and service-level validation.

UAT and business support: Support business users during UAT cycles with test clarification, quick triage, and validation support.

Documentation and best practices: Maintain test documentation, automation guidelines, reusable templates, framework standards, and coding best practices.

AI-assisted quality engineering: Use AI tools such as GitHub Copilot, Playwright AI-assisted locators, and test generators to accelerate automation creation, refactoring, documentation, and productivity.

Continuous improvement: Drive improvements in automation coverage, test reliability, execution efficiency, sprint quality metrics, and release confidence.

Team leadership: Mentor junior QA engineers, support automation code reviews, promote knowledge sharing, and influence quality-first engineering behaviors.

Work shift: Work in overlapping time zones with US teams as required to support collaboration and delivery continuity.