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Automation QA Engineer

MSD
Hyderabad, IND
Full-time
Senior · 10+ years experience
Hybrid
Discovered 2 weeks ago
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Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain scalable automation frameworks and solutions utilizing Robot Framework, Selenium, Python, and related technologies.
  • Define automation strategy, scope, coverage, standards, quality gates, and implementation roadmaps for enterprise applications.
  • Automate functional, regression, integration, API, mobile, System Integration Testing (SIT), and End-to-End test scenarios across Veeva Vault CRM, Salesforce CRM, and associated systems.
  • Create reusable automation components, libraries, utilities, and test data solutions to enhance maintainability and execution efficiency.
  • Integrate automated test suites with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to enable scheduled, on-demand, and release-based execution.
  • Drive test design, execution, traceability, and reporting through JIRA XRAY, ensuring linkage between requirements, automated tests, defects, and releases.
  • Analyze automation results, investigate failures, identify root causes, and collaborate with delivery teams to support timely defect resolution.
  • Manage the end-to-end defect lifecycle, including logging, triage, prioritization, retesting, risk assessment, and closure governance.
  • Collaborate with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Developers, Architects, DevOps, and QA teams to embed automation throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
  • Establish automation coding standards, review practices, version control processes, and framework governance to ensure solution quality.
  • Monitor and report automation Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), execution results, coverage, defect trends, risks, and quality status to project and leadership stakeholders.
  • Leverage GitHub Copilot, Gemini, and others to accelerate test design, script development, debugging, defect analysis, documentation, and reporting.
  • Evaluate emerging Artificial Intelligence (AI) and agentic AI concepts that can improve automation maintainability, exploratory testing, and quality insights.
  • Drive continuous improvement initiatives to reduce manual regression effort, increase coverage, and strengthen release confidence.
  • Mentor QA engineers on automation practices, framework usage, code quality, and AI-enabled testing approaches.
  • Partner with vendor and offshore teams to ensure adherence to automation standards, testing practices, and quality commitments.
  • Ensure compliance with organizational QA processes, documentation standards, audit requirements, and secure development practices.

Qualifications

  • Required
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
  • A minimum of 10 years of experience in Quality Assurance, Test Automation, or Software Testing for enterprise applications.
  • Extensive hands-on experience with Robot Framework, Selenium, and Python.
  • Experience in designing and maintaining reusable automation frameworks, libraries, and test suites.
  • Significant experience with enterprise platforms such as Veeva CRM, Salesforce CRM, Veeva Vault CRM, or equivalent cloud applications.
  • Proficiency with JIRA XRAY, test management, defect governance, execution traceability, and quality reporting.
  • Experience in integrating automated tests with CI/CD pipelines and version control tools.
  • Knowledge of API testing, data validation, integration testing, and End-to-End automation.
  • Proficiency in AI literacy through the use of tools such as GitHub Copilot, Gemini, and similar technologies.
  • Strong understanding of Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, SDLC, and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) methodologies.
  • Excellent analytical, problem-solving, stakeholder management, and communication skills.
  • Preferred
  • Experience in Life Sciences, Healthcare, or other regulated industries.
  • Experience supporting large-scale CRM implementations, transformation programs, and multi-market deployments.
  • Knowledge of cloud-based test execution, parallel execution, containerization, and automation reporting solutions.
  • Experience with API automation tools and libraries, database validation using SQL/SOQL, and service virtualization.
  • Exposure to performance, accessibility, mobile, or cross-browser automation.
  • Experience applying AI-enabled quality engineering practices and agentic AI concepts to automation and exploratory testing.
  • Familiarity with DevOps practices, Git-based workflows, code review, and continuous quality engineering.
  • Atlassian JIRA, Atlassian JIRA, Automated Testing, Automation, Automation Frameworks, Automation Tools, Build Automation, Continuous Integrations, Data Engineering, Data Visualization, Defects Analysis, Defect Tracking Software, Design Applications, Design for Maintainability, GitHub, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Robot Framework, Scrum, Software Configurations, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Standards, Software Testing Tools, Solution Architecture {+ 3 more}

Required Skills:

  • Atlassian JIRA, Atlassian JIRA, Automated Testing, Automation, Automation Frameworks, Automation Tools, Build Automation, Continuous Integrations, Data Engineering, Data Visualization, Defects Analysis, Defect Tracking Software, Design Applications, Design for Maintainability, GitHub, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Robot Framework, Scrum, Software Configurations, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Standards, Software Testing Tools, Solution Architecture {+ 3 more}

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  • 10/27/2026
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