Sr. Automation QA Engineer

As a QA Engineer , you will be an integral part of a cross-functional Agile product development group, responsible for ensuring the quality, reliability and usability of the HR/cloud solution. You'll collaborate closely with Product Owners, Developers, UX/Design, DevOps and other QA peers to define test strategy, execute test plans (manual + automation), raise quality metrics, and advocate for the end user.

• Participate in sprint planning, backlog grooming and stand-ups to understand upcoming features, acceptance criteria and risks.

• Define test strategy, test objectives and scope for features in the Lyric product.

• Design, develop and execute test cases (manual and automated) that cover UI, API, integration and system behaviour.

• Build and maintain automation suites using tools such as Selenium (or other UI automation frameworks), API test tools, BDD frameworks (e.g., Cucumber).

• Execute functional, regression, integration, system, performance and usability tests.

• Work with DevOps/CI pipelines (e.g., Jenkins) to integrate automation and ensure build quality.

• Collaborate with developers to locate root causes, reproduce issues, provide detailed bug reports (with steps to reproduce, logs, screen captures, data), and verify fixes.

• Advocate for quality by identifying gaps in test coverage, recommending improvements in the process, toolchain or product design.

• Generate and present metrics on test coverage, defect trends, automation execution, and quality status to stakeholders.

• Champion best practices around QA in the team (e.g., shift-left testing, pair testing, automation early in sprint).

• Stay current with new testing tools, frameworks or techniques, and coach/mentor junior QA engineers as needed.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Ideally automation testing with playwright experience.

• Several years of professional QA/test engineering experience in a software development environment (UI + API + integration testing).

• Strong experience with automation frameworks (e.g., Selenium WebDriver) and test script development (languages such as Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python).

• Experience with BDD frameworks (Cucumber, SpecFlow) and writing feature/scenario files.

• Experience in API testing (Postman, REST/SOAP services) and backend testing (databases, SQL).

• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins) and integrating automation into the build pipeline.

• Strong analytical and problema solving skills; ability to communicate with both technical and nona technical stakeholders.

• Comfortable working in an Agile/Scrum environment a dynamic, ambiguous requirements, fast pace.

Nice-to-Have

• Experience with modern UI frameworks (e.g., React, Angular) or mobile testing frameworks.

• Familiarity with performance / load testing (JMeter, etc) or accessibility testing (WCAG)

• Experience working on SaaS/cloud-based HR / HCM products.

• Experience mentoring other QA engineers, contributing to team process improvements.