Sr. Software Engineer

The P4 QA Engineer works as part of a self-organised agile team, owning test design and execution across manual and automated suites for PSR products, while collaborating closely with developers and product owners to ensure high-quality, on-time delivery.
Responsibilities:
Works with the team on quality assurance and quality control of the product during development and execution phases, actively participating in grooming, planning, and reviews.
Develops and maintains test cases and test data for all relevant modules of the product, ensuring traceability to business and functional requirements.
Executes manual and automated test cases across functional, regression, system, and integration testing and publishes clear, actionable test results.
Writes and maintains robust, reusable test automation scripts using Playwright with a BDD framework (e. g., Cucumber) and integrates them into CI/CD pipelines.
Reviews automated and manual tests, identifies gaps, and suggests options to improve coverage, reliability, and maintainability of the test suite.
Identifies, logs, and tracks software defects following the defined defect lifecycle, and collaborates with developers for root-cause analysis and quick resolution.
Provides inputs to system, regression, and performance test planning, including environment, data, and tool requirements.
Assists in the collection and interpretation of test metrics (coverage, defect trends, execution health) and recommends corrective actions to improve product and process quality.
Understands and clarifies business requirements and acceptance criteria, ensuring that tests reflect real customer workflows in PSR / retail execution contexts.
Follows standard development and testing processes, adheres to coding and documentation standards, and contributes to continuous improvement of QA practices.
Plans and prioritises own work with guidance from the manager and scrum team, proactively flagging risks and impairments to commitments.
Provides cross-training and education to other test personnel and offers constructive feedback and guidance to junior QA team members.
Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field.
Approximately 4-7 years of hands-on experience in software testing, including both manual and automation testing for enterprise or SaaS products.
Strong experience in UI test automation using Playwright or similar modern frameworks, preferably with JavaScript/TypeScript.
Practical experience with BDD frameworks (e. g., Cucumber, SpecFlow) and behaviour-driven test design.
Good understanding of test design techniques, regression strategy, risk-based testing, and end-to-end scenario validation.
Experience with API testing using tools like Postman or REST-assured and basic knowledge of performance testing concepts.
Familiarity with Git-based version control and CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps.
Working knowledge of defect and test management tools (e. g., JIRA, ALM or similar).
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail and a mindset for continuous improvement.
Effective written and verbal communication skills and ability to collaborate across globally distributed teams.
Preferred qualifications and domain:
Experience testing retail, planogram, store execution, or shelf/PSR solutions or other supply chain / retail products.
Exposure to cloud-native environments (Azure or other major cloud platforms) and authentication standards such as OAuth/SSO.
Experience integrating automation suites into containerised or cloud-based execution grids.
Prior experience in a product-based organisation delivering large-scale enterprise solutions, ideally in supply chain or retail technology.

Experience
4-6 yrs