Staff Software Development Engineer

Duties and Responsibilities:

Automation Framework Design & Implementation

• Design, architect, and implement robust automation frameworks from scratch for UI, API, mobile, microservices, and data validation.
• Define end-to-end QA automation strategy aligning with product architecture, DevOps, and release processes.
• Evaluate and integrate emerging tools, frameworks, and libraries to optimize automation coverage and scalability.
• Build reusable framework components, utilities, and test accelerators to support development across teams.

AI-Driven and Next-Gen QA Practices

• Drive adoption of AI-powered QA automation using latest platforms, intelligent test agents, and generative AI tools.
• Implement frameworks leveraging AI models, NLP-based validation, self-healing automation, and autonomous test execution.
• Build automation solutions leveraging or integrating with MCP servers, AI execution orchestration, or agent-based automation systems .

Technical Leadership

• Provide architectural direction and mentorship to QA engineers, automation developers, and SDETs.
• Define best practices, coding standards, testing guidelines, and automation governance frameworks.
• Collaborate closely with Engineering, DevOps, SRE, and Product teams to enable shift-left testing and CI/CD integration.
• Conduct automation code reviews to ensure high maintainability, scalability, and performance.

Quality Engineering & Strategy

• Develop and maintain comprehensive test automation coverage across Functional, Regression, Performance, Security, and Integration test layers.
• Identify gaps in testing methodology and drive improvements in processes, tooling, and automation maturity.
• Support continuous integration pipelines with automated quality gates, dashboards, and reporting.

Job Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience in QA engineering with strong automation and architecture background.
• Proven hands-on experience designing and implementing automated test frameworks from scratch.
• Strong experience in at least 23 of the following frameworks/tools:
• Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, TestNG, JUnit, PyTest, Karate, Postman/Newman, Appium, Robot Framework.
• Expertise in programming languages such as Python, Java, TypeScript, or JavaScript .
• Experience integrating test automation frameworks into DevOps CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions,).
• Ability to optimize framework performance, parallel execution, containerization (Docker), and cloud-based execution (BrowserStack, Sauce Labs, LambdaTest, AWS Device Farm).
• Experience with Performance testing tools (JMeter, Gatling, k6).
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).

AI-Driven QA Skills

• Working knowledge or implementation experience with:
• AI test agents (e.g., Mabl, Testim, Katalon AI, Tricentis Tosca AI add-ons, Functionize, testRigor)
• Generative AI tools for automated script creation/validation
• Intelligent self-healing and autonomous testing systems
• MCP servers, AI-powered pipeline orchestration, or autonomous QA agent integration

Soft Skills

• Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking.
• Ability to influence stakeholders and present architectural decisions clearly.
• Experience in guiding cross-functional QA teams.

Education:

• Bachelors degree in computer science, engineering or equivalent or equivalent experience in Technology.