Senior QA Automation Engineer – Service Layer / QTC Platform

• 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: Hyderabad- Hybrid
  
• Budget: 20 LPA
  
• Contract Duration: 12 months
  

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.

• 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.
  

• 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.
  

• 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.
  

• 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.
  

• 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.
  

• 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.
  

• 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.
  

• Strong experience designing and developing test automation frameworks using one or more of the following:
  • Java
    
  • Python
    
  • TypeScript
    
  • Similar programming languages
    

• Strong hands-on experience with API automation tools/frameworks such as:
  • REST Assured
    
  • Postman
    
  • Karate
    
  • PyTest
    
  • Selenium
    
  • Playwright
    
  • Equivalent automation technologies
    

• 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.
  

• Strong experience with:
  • PostgreSQL
    
  • Relational databases
    
  • NoSQL databases
    
  • SQL query development
    
  • Database testing
    
  • Data validation techniques
    

• Experience testing AWS cloud-native and serverless applications using services such as:
  • Lambda
    
  • API Gateway
    
  • S3
    
  • DynamoDB
    
  • RDS
    
  • SQS
    
  • SNS
    
  • CloudWatch
    

• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines using:
  • GitLab CI
    
  • Jenkins
    
  • Azure DevOps
    
  • Equivalent platforms
    

• 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
    

• 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
    

• 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.