Senior /Lead QA Automation Engineer (AI)

Experience: 5–9 years

Key Responsibilities

• Lead QA activities across multiple Neio Project products and workstreams.
• Own QA planning, test strategy, test execution tracking, defect tracking, and release readiness reporting.
• Coordinate work among QA engineers and ensure proper test coverage across assigned applications.
• Review requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and business workflows to identify test gaps and risks.
• Define test approach for functional testing, regression testing, API testing, automation, integration testing, and release validation.
• Build, enhance, and maintain UI automation frameworks using Selenium or Playwright.
• Build, enhance, and maintain API automation frameworks using Rest Assured.
• Perform and review manual API testing using Postman.
• Ensure effective defect reporting, defect triage participation, root cause analysis, and retesting.
• Collaborate with product owners, engineering leads, business teams, delivery managers, and other stakeholders.
• Mentor QA engineers and help improve their testing mindset, automation skills, and domain understanding.
• Provide guidance for validating AI-enabled features where required, based on defined business rules, expected outputs, and acceptance criteria.

Strong manual testing foundation with excellent test design, test planning, and risk-based testing skills.

• Strong hands-on UI automation experience using Selenium or Playwright.
• Strong hands-on API automation experience using Rest Assured.
• Strong manual API testing experience using Postman.
• Good programming skills in Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, or Python.
• Experience designing or enhancing automation frameworks.
• Strong knowledge of SDLC, STLC, Agile/Scrum, defect lifecycle, QA governance, and release processes.
• Strong understanding of REST APIs, JSON, HTTP methods, authentication, authorization, integration flows, and backend validation.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps.
• Experience with Git and build tools such as Maven, Gradle, or npm.