Quality Assurance Automation Engineer

We are seeking an experienced QA Automation Lead to guide and scale our testing efforts for critical software and custom applications developed across teams.
In this role, you will take ownership of the team's QA strategy, delegate testing deliverables, and drive the implementation of robust API and UI test automation frameworks.
You will work in a highly collaborative environment alongside developers, product managers, and business partners to ensure exceptional product reliability, performance, and data integrity.
Job Requirements:
Lead, coordinate, and delegate daily testing deliverables across team members to align with project milestones.
Serve as the primary point of contact for QA initiatives, effectively communicating test strategy, status, and risks to stakeholders.
Work closely with business partners, product owners, and developers to establish API testing best practices and resolve technical blockers.
Design, build, and maintain scalable test automation frameworks for APIs using RestAssured and Cucumber (BDD).
Implement UI automation scripts using Selenium and modern framework standards.
Integrate automated test suites into Jenkins CI/CD pipelines to ensure continuous execution and feedback loops.
Perform end-to-end, functional, non-functional, black-box, white-box, system, and exploratory testing on APIs and custom web applications.
Author, review, and maintain structured test plans and detailed test cases directly within JIRA.
Trace and log defects in JIRA, working alongside developers to investigate, isolate, and validate bug fixes.
Document test strategies, best practices, and team workflows in Confluence.
Qualification and Requirements:
Experience: 7+ years of hands-on software QA testing experience with proven team management or lead capabilities.
API Testing: Demonstrated expertise in API automation using RestAssured and Cucumber.
UI Automation: Hands-on experience developing UI test scripts using Selenium.
CI/CD & Tools: Direct experience integrating test scripts into continuous integration pipelines using Jenkins.
Agile Management Tools: Mastery of JIRA (for test management and issue tracking) and Confluence (for documentation).
Methodologies: Expert knowledge of QA methodologies, including exploratory, functional, black box, and white box testing.
Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills with experience presenting testing status to non-technical business partners.
Preferred:
Prior domain experience in the Retail Industry.
Hands-on testing experience with Point of Sale (POS) systems and integrated terminal software such as Oracle Xstore.

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