Senior QA Automation Engineer

Senior QA Automation Engineer

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Posted Date May 14, 2026 Employment Type Contract Experience Level Director Location India Category ** Programming ** Company **ttc group (tech talent consulting) **

Senior QA Automation Engineer

Role : QA Automation EngineerLocation : India - Fully RemoteDuration : 6 MonthsContract RoleHours : UK Time zoneStart Date : Immediate

**Required Skills & Experience Core Automation ** • 3+ years of hands-on QA automation experience in a commercial environment • Strong proficiency in Cypress or Playwright for end-to-end UI test automation • Experience writing automated tests in TypeScript (JavaScript also acceptable) • Proven experience with BDD using Cucumber — writing and maintaining Gherkin feature files and step definitions • Solid experience with REST Assured for API test automation • Experience using WireMock for API mocking and service virtualisation • Hands-on experience with WebdriverIO or equivalent Selenium-based frameworks.

Technology StackUI Automation : Cypress, Playwright, WebdriverIO Language : TypeScript (primary), JavaScript BDD Framework : Cucumber (Gherkin), CucumberJS / Cucumber-JVM API Testing : REST Assured, Postman / Newman Service Mocking : WireMock, MockServer Unit / Component : Jest, Mocha, JUnit 5 (as applicable) CI / CD : GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI Interested in remote work opportunities in Development & Programming? Discover Development & Programming Remote Jobs featuring exclusive positions from top companies that offer flexible work arrangements. Containerisation : Docker (test environment execution) Test Management : Jira, Zephyr / TestRail / Xray Version Control : Git (GitHub / GitLab / Bitbucket) Observability : Test reporting dashboards — Allure, ReportPortal, Extent

Key Responsibilities Test Automation • Design, build and maintain UI end-to-end tests using Cypress and/or Playwright with TypeScript • Develop and maintain BDD feature files and step definitions using Cucumber, ensuring business readable test scenarios • Build and maintain API and integration tests using REST Assured and WireMock for service virtualisation • Extend and maintain WebdriverIO test suites where required • Ensure test coverage across functional, regression, smoke and exploratory test scenarios • Maintain and evolve the test framework architecture to support scalability and reuse.

Quality Engineering • Champion a shift-left testing approach, embedding quality from requirements and design stages • Collaborate with developers to define acceptance criteria and write testable user stories Identify, report and track defects clearly with reproducible steps and supporting evidence • Conduct root cause analysis on test failures, distinguishing genuine defects from flaky tests • Perform exploratory testing on new features and releases • Review and contribute to test strategy, test plans and technical QA documentation

**CI / CD & DevOps Integration ** • Integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI or similar) • Configure test execution strategies — parallel runs, environment targeting, headless execution • Monitor test results, maintain dashboards and report quality metrics to the wider team Browse our curated collection of remote jobs across all categories and industries, featuring positions from top companies worldwide. • Work with DevOps engineers to ensure test infrastructure is reliable, reproducible and well maintained.

Testing Knowledge • Strong understanding of software testing principles — functional, regression, integration, smoke and exploratory • Experience designing and implementing page object models and scalable test framework architecture • Ability to read and understand application code (Java, JavaScript/TypeScript) to assist with testability • Experience with cross-browser and cross-platform test execution • Familiarity with accessibility testing and performance testing approaches

**Tooling & Process ** • Experience integrating test suites into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI) • Comfortable working with Git — branching strategies, pull requests, code review • Experience with test management and defect tracking tools (Jira, Zephyr, TestRail or similar) • Familiarity with containerised environments — running tests in Doc • Comfortable working in Agile / Scrum delivery environments.

Desirable Skills • Experience with contract testing using Pact • Familiarity with performance / load testing tools (Gatling, k6, JMeter) • Experience with visual regression testing (Percy, Applitools, BackstopJS) • Exposure to security / penetration testing basics (OWASP, DAST) • Experience with mobile test automation (Appium, Detox) • Familiarity with Spring Boot applications and microservices architectures • Exposure to Kubernetes or cloud-based test execution environments • ISTQB Foundation or Advanced certification

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