Senior QA Automation Engineer – Service Layer / QTC Platform

Senior QA Automation Engineer – Service Layer / QTC Platform

Role Details

• Role: Senior QA Automation Engineer

• Experience: 7+ years

• Relevant Automation Experience: 4+ years

• Primary Skills: Test Automation, API Testing, Microservices Testing, Kafka/MSK, AWS, SQL, CI/CD

• Domain Exposure: Quote-to-Cash, Customer Lifecycle, Enterprise Integrations preferred

• Location / Mode: Bengaluru- Hybrid

Role Overview

We are looking for a strong, hands-on, and highly motivated Senior QA Automation Engineer to ensure the quality, reliability, and performance of the Service Layer (SL-QTC) platform supporting Quote-to-Cash (QTC), customer lifecycle, and enterprise integration workloads.

The role involves designing, developing, and maintaining automation frameworks and quality engineering practices for a cloud-native, event-driven platform built on AWS, Kafka/MSK, APIs, databases, and distributed microservices.

The ideal candidate should have strong automation expertise along with hands-on experience testing distributed systems, event-driven architectures, cloud-native applications, APIs, data flows, and complex enterprise integrations.

Key Responsibilities

Test Automation & Quality Engineering

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable test automation frameworks for APIs, microservices, event-driven workflows, and cloud-native applications.

• Build automated test suites covering: • Functional testing

• Integration testing

• Regression testing

• End-to-end testing

• Data validation testing

• Develop quality engineering practices to support early defect detection and high-quality releases.

API, Microservices & Integration Testing

• Perform automated API testing, contract testing, service virtualization, and integration testing across enterprise applications and services.

• Validate REST APIs, asynchronous workflows, message queues, service integrations, and downstream system interactions.

• Ensure test coverage across complex Quote-to-Cash business processes and enterprise integration flows.

Kafka / MSK & Event-Driven Testing

• Validate Kafka / AWS MSK event flows, message transformations, canonical data models, and event orchestration workflows.

• Test schema evolution, message contracts, topic-level behavior, error handling, retry logic, and downstream consumption.

• Ensure reliability of event-driven workflows across distributed services.

Database & Data Validation

• Develop automated data validation and reconciliation tests across: • PostgreSQL

• ClickHouse

• DynamoDB

• Other platform data stores

• Validate database transactions, data transformations, data consistency, and reconciliation outputs.

• Write and optimize SQL queries for testing, troubleshooting, and verification.

CI/CD & Shift-Left Testing

• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or similar platforms.

• Collaborate with Engineering and DevOps teams to enable continuous testing, quality gates, and shift-left practices.

• Contribute to release readiness criteria and quality metrics.

Non-Functional Testing

• Perform performance, load, reliability, resiliency, and scalability testing for distributed systems.

• Use tools such as JMeter, K6, Gatling, or equivalent solutions.

• Identify bottlenecks and support engineering teams in improving platform performance and reliability.

Defect Analysis & Reporting

• Analyze defects, troubleshoot complex issues, perform root cause analysis, and drive quality improvements.

• Create test reports, dashboards, and quality metrics using tools such as Allure, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch, ClickHouse, or similar platforms.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to continuously improve test coverage, automation frameworks, and release processes.

Must-Have Skills

Automation & Programming

• Strong experience designing and developing test automation frameworks using one or more of the following: • Java

• Python

• TypeScript

• Similar programming languages

API Automation Testing

• Strong hands-on experience with API automation tools/frameworks such as: • REST Assured

• Postman

• Karate

• PyTest

• Selenium

• Playwright

• Equivalent automation technologies

Microservices & Event-Driven Architecture Testing

• Strong experience testing: • Microservices

• Distributed systems

• Event-driven architectures

• Kafka / AWS MSK

• RabbitMQ or similar messaging platforms

• Experience validating asynchronous workflows, message queues, event transformations, and enterprise integrations.

Database Testing

• Strong experience with: • PostgreSQL

• Relational databases

• NoSQL databases

• SQL query development

• Database testing

• Data validation techniques

AWS & Cloud-Native Testing

• Experience testing AWS cloud-native and serverless applications using services such as: • Lambda

• API Gateway

• S3

• DynamoDB

• RDS

• SQS

• SNS

• CloudWatch

CI/CD & DevOps

• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines using: • GitLab CI

• Jenkins

• Azure DevOps

• Equivalent platforms

Performance & Observability

• Experience with performance and reliability testing tools such as: • JMeter

• K6

• Gatling

• Experience with quality reporting and observability tools such as: • Allure

• Grafana

• Datadog

• CloudWatch

• ClickHouse

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline.

• 7+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance, Test Automation, or Quality Engineering.

• 4+ years of experience developing and maintaining automated testing solutions for enterprise applications and APIs.

• Strong experience testing cloud-native, distributed, and event-driven systems in production-scale environments.

• Experience working in Agile delivery environments with cross-functional engineering teams.

• Strong understanding of: • Test strategy

• Test design

• Defect management

• Root cause analysis

• Agile testing practices

• Quality engineering principles

Nice to Have

• Certifications such as: • ISTQB

• Certified Agile Tester

• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

• Equivalent QA / Cloud certifications

• Experience implementing shift-left testing, test quality metrics, and quality gates within CI/CD pipelines.

• Experience testing enterprise platforms such as: • Salesforce

• Oracle ERP

• OIC

• ORMB

• Enterprise integration platforms

• Strong experience validating Kafka/MSK event streams, schema evolution, message contracts, and event orchestration workflows.