Senior QA Automation Engineer – Service Layer / QTC Platform

Senior QA Automation Engineer – Service Layer / QTC Platform Role Details 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: Bengaluru- Hybrid Budget : 12 LPA Contract Duration : 12 months Role Overview 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 .

Key Responsibilities

Test Automation & Quality Engineering 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.

API, Microservices & Integration Testing 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.

Kafka / MSK & Event-Driven Testing 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.

Database & Data Validation Develop automated data validation and reconciliation tests across: PostgreSQL Click. House 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.

CI/CD & Shift-Left Testing 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. Non-Functional Testing 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. Defect Analysis & Reporting 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, Cloud.

Watch, Click. House, or similar platforms. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to continuously improve test coverage, automation frameworks, and release processes. Must-Have Skills Automation & Programming Strong experience designing and developing test automation frameworks using one or more of the following: Java Python TypeScript Similar programming languages API Automation Testing Strong hands-on experience with API automation tools/frameworks such as: REST Assured Postman Karate Py.

Test Selenium Playwright Equivalent automation technologies Microservices & Event-Driven Architecture Testing 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.

Database Testing Strong experience with: PostgreSQL Relational databases NoSQL databases SQL query development Database testing Data validation techniques AWS & Cloud-Native Testing Experience testing AWS cloud-native and serverless applications using services such as: Lambda API Gateway S3 DynamoDB RDS SQS SNS Cloud.

Watch CI/CD & DevOps Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines using: GitLab CI Jenkins Azure DevOps Equivalent platforms Performance & Observability Experience with performance and reliability testing tools such as: JMeter K6 Gatling Experience with quality reporting and observability tools such as: Allure Grafana Datadog Cloud.

Watch Click. House Required Qualifications 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 Nice to Have 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.