Leads QA strategy and scalable automation across UI, API, and end-to-end testing. Builds regression and functional suites, integrates quality gates into CI/CD pipelines, validates enterprise workflows and financial transactions, translates requirements into acceptance criteria, and partners with stakeholders on UAT and quality alignment.
About the role
Join us in shaping the quality backbone of our enterprise platforms, where APIs and frontend systems come together to power business-critical workflows. You'll work closely with product owners, stakeholders, and engineering teams to build automation, testing strategy, and business validation practices that make shipping software reliable, fast, and business-aligned. If you love solving hard quality problems and bridging the gap between business and engineering, we want to hear from you.
What you'll do
- Lead QA strategy and design scalable automation frameworks across UI, API, and end-to-end testing
- Build and maintain regression and functional test suites, ensuring quality gates within CI/CD pipelines
- Gather and analyze business requirements, translating them into test scenarios and acceptance criteria
- Validate end-to-end workflows and integrations (orders, payments, financial and transactional processes) across frontend, APIs, and backend systems
- Partner with stakeholders to support UAT, identify gaps, and drive alignment between business, product, and engineering teams
What you bring
- 7–10 years in QA with a strong automation background, running quality across enterprise platforms
- Hands-on experience with API testing (REST/SOAP) and UI automation tools (Selenium, Cypress, Playwright)
- Solid understanding of automation frameworks, test design patterns, and CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
- Strong experience in requirement analysis, functional validation, and writing user stories and acceptance criteria
- Comfort validating enterprise workflows, integrations, and financial/transactional processes
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with a proactive, ownership-driven mindset
Nice to have
- SAP integrations (SOAP services)
- Exposure to Salesforce or similar platforms
- Performance testing experience
- Familiarity with AI-driven testing tools
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