Senior Quality Automation Engineer — AI-Native (APAC)
RemoteIndia
Job Summary
Define a risk-based automation strategy across frontend, backend, integrations, and AI-powered features, determining which behaviors require unit, component, API, contract, or end-to-end testing. Design and maintain scalable frameworks for React, Rails, and services using Playwright, while building reusable test-data factories and isolated environments. Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, optimizing suites through parallelization and sharding to ensure fast pull-request feedback and actionable diagnostic information. Establish quality gates, quarantine flaky tests, and automatically connect production defects to permanent regression coverage. Build dashboards tracking automation coverage, pipeline health, and escaped defects, while using AI to accelerate test-case design and failure investigation.
Required Qualifications
- Approximately 5+ years of experience in quality engineering, test automation, SDET, or software engineering roles
- Demonstrated experience designing or significantly improving an automation framework—not only writing test cases within an existing one
- Strong programming ability in JavaScript/TypeScript, Ruby, Python, or a comparable language
- Hands-on experience with modern browser automation tools such as Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium
- Strong experience testing APIs, databases, asynchronous workflows, and distributed services
- Experience integrating automated tests and quality gates into CI/CD pipelines
- Strong understanding of test architecture, test isolation, test data, mocking, coverage strategy, and failure diagnostics
- Ability to read application code, understand system behavior, and investigate failures across multiple layers
- Experience reducing flaky tests and improving automation execution time
- Strong understanding of security, performance, reliability, and negative-path testing
- Product judgment: the ability to identify what creates real customer risk rather than treating every test case as equally important
- Strong written and verbal communication in a distributed environment
- Comfort working with ambiguity and building quality practices in a fast-moving product organization
- Practical experience using AI-assisted development or testing tools and independently validating their output
Desired Qualifications
- You have been the first or senior Quality Engineer in a startup
- You have built a quality automation function or framework from the ground up
- You have introduced Playwright, API automation, contract testing, or containerized integration testing at scale
- You have tested multi-tenant enterprise SaaS or cybersecurity products
- You have experience testing AI agents or other non-deterministic systems
- You have implemented performance testing using tools such as k6
- You have built automated quality dashboards or production-feedback systems
- You regularly identify specification, architecture, and testability issues before development begins
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