QA Automation Engineer
About the Position
You will work as a QA automation specialist responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining automated test suites across backend and frontend components. You will validate data, APIs, and user interfaces, and support engineering teams by improving testing practices and helping others adopt automation workflows. This role follows standard India office hours and includes at least one hour of overlap with the United States Pacific time zone for coordinated sessions.
About the Project
You will contribute to a quality validation platform that ensures consistent behaviour of services, data flows, and user interfaces across a distributed system. The project focuses on automation coverage, API validation, and UI testing, with ongoing improvements to testing reliability and team wide quality practices.
Responsibilities
- Design and maintain automated test suites for backend services and user interfaces
- Validate REST APIs including functional behaviour, error handling, and data accuracy
- Perform data validation using SQL and NoSQL tools
- Support UI and UX testing with a focus on usability and consistency
- Analyse test outcomes and work with engineering teams to resolve issues
- Help maintain automation standards and contribute to improvements in testing coverage
- Assist other QA team members by sharing automation knowledge and best practices
- Contribute to documentation of test plans, test cases, and automated workflows
Requirements
- Experience building and maintaining automated tests for web applications or microservices
- Experience validating REST APIs
- Familiarity working with SQL and NoSQL data stores
- Experience performing UI and UX validation
- Ability to communicate clearly in English in a distributed team environment
- Ability to self manage testing activities and coordinate with engineering teams
Nice to Have
- Familiarity with automation frameworks used in UI and API testing
- Experience in the travel ecosystem
- Experience guiding or mentoring others on automation practices
- Experience working with asynchronous distributed systems
