The Senior Software Quality Engineer (SSQE) plays a critical role in assuring quality (adherence to requirements and user experience) by testing the company's applications. This role shares ownership over moderate to complex architecture developments, including strategy, plan, framework, and solution development. The SSQE is responsible for creating automation frameworks from scratch, solving high complexity problems, developing Continuous Testing (CT) models, and acting as a Point of Contact (POC) for technical guidance across the product domain. They exhibit advanced, wide-ranging experience, using in-depth professional knowledge, acumen, and concepts to develop and resolve complex models and procedures creatively and effectively.
Responsibilities:
- Defines, develops, and implements quality assurance best practices and procedures: test strategies, test plans, test cases, and other quality-related assessments for their Domain.
- Participates in all aspects of testing, including functional, regression, integration, and test planning.
- Works collaboratively with their team during all project stages to provide in-process testing results.
- Designs, writes, executes, and maintains automated and manual tests, as well as frameworks for UI tests.
- Augments development teams by enhancing test coverage where needed.
- Investigates, records, triages, and tracks defects, and verifies their fixes.
- Participates in code releases and the code review process.
- Stays up-to-date with new testing tools and test strategies.
- Provides leadership, guidance, training, and mentoring to implement quality validations and initiatives for the domain.
- AI Integration: Leverages generative AI coding assistants to optimize framework scripting, and implements prompt engineering methodologies to draft automated test workflows and generate scalable test datasets.
- Experience: 6+ years of related professional experience.
- Computer science degree or demonstrable experience.
- Technical Expertise (High): UI Web Automation, UI Desktop Automation, UI Web/Mobile/Desktop Functional/Manual, STLC & QA Concepts, Test Planning and Strategizing, Management of Test Data. Proficient on OOLPs and test frameworks like: Selenium (Mandatory) and Playwright (desired).
- Technical Expertise (Medium-High): CI/CD/CT (Jenkins, Git, etc.), UI Mobile Automation, AWS (S3, Lambda, EC2, CloudWatch), Agile (Scrum & Kanban), Test Management. API Automation, API Testing (Manual).
- AI and Modern QA Competency (Medium-High - Mandatory): Practical application of Generative AI tools (e.g., Copilot, ChatGPT) for script generation and maintenance, test documentation, and failure logs analysis.
- Problem Solving: Proven ability to understand and work on complex issues requiring in-depth evaluation of variable factors, exercising judgment in selecting methods and techniques.