Senior qa engineer automation

80% coverage, mentor junior QA engineers, and ensure delivery excellence across the software development lifecycle. Collaborate with Product, Development, and Dev Ops teams to embed quality practices from design through production deployment.
Mandatory Skills Description:
- 5–7 years of QA experience for web applications in Agile/Scrum
- Web testing: functional, regression, integration/system testing; E2 E, smoke/sanity, exploratory, risk-based testing
- Test automation (2+ years) with Cypress using Java Script/Type Script
- REST API testing (Postman, REST Assured, or similar); validation of status codes/schemas/error handling; auth testing (OAuth2/JWT/SSO)
- CI/CD integration and automated test execution in pipelines (Git Lab CI, Azure Dev Ops Pipelines, or Jenkins)
- Cloud deployment validation on AWS and Azure
- Test/defect management tools (Azure Dev Ops Test Plans/Boards or equivalent)
- Version control: Git (Git Lab/Git Hub)
- Scripting and data validation: Python and/or Bash; basic SQL for database checks
- Leadership: driving QA initiatives, mentoring, defining quality gates, defect triage
Nice-to-Have Skills Description:
- Performance/load testing (k6, JMeter, Gatling)
- Security testing awareness (OWASP Top 10; Burp Suite / OWASP ZAP / Snyk)
- Docker/Kubernetes validation testing
- Observability/monitoring tools (Cloud Watch, Azure Monitor, Datadog, New Relic, ELK/Splunk)
- Graph QL API testing and/or contract testing
- Experience with large datasets/ETL validation, Kafka/event-driven systems, or geospatial data testing
- Domain exposure to Oil & Gas / Energy software is a plus