QA automation Engineer

Looking for Mobile Tester/ Playwright Hands on /Mainframe tester/ Software Development Engineer for an MNC Company. It's a direct hire.

Career gaps allowed.

Immediate joiners preferred.

We are seeking a curious, detail-oriented, and quality-driven tester who is passionate about building great products within a startup culture. This role goes beyond traditional testing—you will be responsible for evaluating the entire product experience before it reaches the client.

Your primary responsibility will be testing across product functionality, UI, UX, and overall usability, while also having basic awareness of automation testing tools and concepts.

You will work closely with developers, designers, and product teams to ensure that what we ship is stable, intuitive, clean, and client-ready.

Key Responsibilities

1. Manual Testing (Primary Focus)

• Perform end-to-end manual testing of web and/or mobile applications.
• Test all product features to ensure they work as expected across different scenarios.
• Identify, document, and report bugs, edge cases, inconsistencies, and usability issues.
• Validate fixes and ensure issues are fully resolved before release.
• Test applications from a real user’s perspective, not just based on requirements.

2. Product-Level Testing

• Evaluate whether the product:
• Solves the intended problem
• Has all the required features
• Feels complete and production-ready
• Identify missing flows, broken logic, or confusing behaviors.
• Ensure the product delivers a good overall experience, not just correct functionality.

3. UI Testing

• Review the visual quality of the product:
• Layout consistency
• Alignment, spacing, typography, and colors
• Check if the UI is:
• Clean and intuitive
• Not overly complex or cluttered
• Easy for users to understand and navigate
• Report UI inconsistencies across screens, devices, or browsers.

4. UX Testing

• Analyze how smooth and logical the user journey is.
• Identify friction points in:
• Navigation
• User flows
• Interactions and feedback
• Ensure the product feels natural, fast, and easy to use.
• Suggest improvements to enhance usability and user satisfaction.

5. Automation Testing Awareness

• understanding of automation testing concepts.
• Familiarity with common automation tools such as
• Selenium
• Cypress
• Playwright
• Postman (for API testing)
• Ability to understand where automation fits into the testing lifecycle.

6. Code Awareness (Secondary)

• Have a basic understanding of code and system behavior.
• Ability to:
• Read logs or error messages
• Understand where issues might originate
• Direct code-level testing is not mandatory, but awareness is a plus.

What We’re Looking For

Skills & Traits

• Strong attention to detail and observation skills
• Ability to think like an end user
• Logical thinking and problem-solving mindset
• Curious to explore edge cases and unusual scenarios
• Clear communication when reporting issues
• willingness to learn and improve continuously

Mindset & Passion

• You genuinely care about product quality
• You enjoy finding bugs, gaps, and improvements
• You take ownership of the product before it reaches the client
• You aim for “client-ready and polished,” not just “working.”

Eligibility

• A background in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or related fields is a plus

What You’ll Gain

• Hands-on experience testing real products
• Exposure to the full product lifecycle before client delivery
• Strong foundation in manual testing, UI/UX evaluation, and product thinking
• Mentorship from experienced developers and product teams
• Opportunity to grow into a full-time QA or Product Quality role

Assignment :

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dFsnhKXpHU3CsgisAFn1rJpb4k95FaEomF9G2moIDJs/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.d0oiq0eiuuxv

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of mobile QA engineers across multiple projects.
• Define test strategy, test plans, and test cases for Android and iOS applications.
• Develop and maintain mobile automation frameworks using Appium and Java.
• Execute manual and automated testing for native, hybrid, and mobile web applications.
• Perform functional, regression, integration, API, and end-to-end testing.
• Collaborate with developers, product owners, business analysts, and stakeholders to ensure quality throughout the SDLC.
• Analyze defects, perform root cause analysis, and work closely with development teams for timely resolution.
• Review test artifacts, monitor test execution, and ensure quality standards are met before releases.
• Drive automation adoption and continuously improve QA processes and best practices.
• Participate in sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily stand-ups, and release planning.
• Prepare test reports, quality metrics, and provide regular project status updates to stakeholders.

Required Skills

• 5-10 years of experience in Software Testing with strong expertise in Mobile Testing.
• Hands-on experience in Appium, Java, and mobile automation frameworks.
• Strong experience in testing Android and iOS applications.
• Experience in API Testing using Postman or REST Assured.
• Knowledge of Selenium, TestNG, SQL, Git, Jenkins, and Jira.
• Experience with cloud device platforms such as BrowserStack or Sauce Labs.
• Good understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and leadership skills.

Good to Have

• Experience with Cucumber (BDD).
• Knowledge of Espresso and XCUITest.
• Performance testing using JMeter.
• Experience with Flutter or React Native application testing.
• Exposure to mobile security and accessibility testing.

We are seeking a curious, detail-oriented, and quality-driven tester who is passionate about building great products within a startup culture. This role goes beyond traditional testing—you will be responsible for evaluating the entire product experience before it reaches the client.

Your primary responsibility will be testing across product functionality, UI, UX, and overall usability, while also having basic awareness of automation testing tools and concepts.

You will work closely with developers, designers, and product teams to ensure that what we ship is stable, intuitive, clean, and client-ready.

Key Responsibilities

1. Manual Testing (Primary Focus)

• Perform end-to-end manual testing of web and/or mobile applications.
• Test all product features to ensure they work as expected across different scenarios.
• Identify, document, and report bugs, edge cases, inconsistencies, and usability issues.
• Validate fixes and ensure issues are fully resolved before release.
• Test applications from a real user’s perspective, not just based on requirements.

2. Product-Level Testing

• Evaluate whether the product:
• Solves the intended problem
• Has all the required features
• Feels complete and production-ready
• Identify missing flows, broken logic, or confusing behaviors.
• Ensure the product delivers a good overall experience, not just correct functionality.

3. UI Testing

• Review the visual quality of the product:
• Layout consistency
• Alignment, spacing, typography, and colors
• Check if the UI is:
• Clean and intuitive
• Not overly complex or cluttered
• Easy for users to understand and navigate
• Report UI inconsistencies across screens, devices, or browsers.

4. UX Testing

• Analyze how smooth and logical the user journey is.
• Identify friction points in:
• Navigation
• User flows
• Interactions and feedback
• Ensure the product feels natural, fast, and easy to use.
• Suggest improvements to enhance usability and user satisfaction.

5. Automation Testing Awareness

• understanding of automation testing concepts.
• Familiarity with common automation tools such as
• Selenium
• Cypress
• Playwright
• Postman (for API testing)
• Ability to understand where automation fits into the testing lifecycle.

6. Code Awareness (Secondary)

• Have a basic understanding of code and system behavior.
• Ability to:
• Read logs or error messages
• Understand where issues might originate
• Direct code-level testing is not mandatory, but awareness is a plus.

What We’re Looking For

Skills & Traits

• Strong attention to detail and observation skills
• Ability to think like an end user
• Logical thinking and problem-solving mindset
• Curious to explore edge cases and unusual scenarios
• Clear communication when reporting issues
• willingness to learn and improve continuously

Mindset & Passion

• You genuinely care about product quality
• You enjoy finding bugs, gaps, and improvements
• You take ownership of the product before it reaches the client
• You aim for “client-ready and polished,” not just “working.”

Eligibility

• A background in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or related fields is a plus

What You’ll Gain

• Hands-on experience testing real products
• Exposure to the full product lifecycle before client delivery
• Strong foundation in manual testing, UI/UX evaluation, and product thinking
• Mentorship from experienced developers and product teams
• Opportunity to grow into a full-time QA or Product Quality role

Assignment :

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dFsnhKXpHU3CsgisAFn1rJpb4k95FaEomF9G2moIDJs/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.d0oiq0eiuuxv

• Web Application Testing: Design, document, and execute comprehensive functional test plans and test cases for complex, highly interactive web applications, ensuring they meet specified requirements and provide an excellent user experience.
• Backend API Testing: Possess deep expertise in validating backend RESTful and/or SOAP APIs. This includes testing request/response payloads, status codes, data integrity, security, and robust error handling mechanisms.
• Data Validation with SQL: Write and execute complex SQL queries (joins, aggregations, conditional logic) to perform backend data checks, verify application states, and ensure data integrity across integration points.
• I Automation (Playwright & TypeScript):
• Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable, and reusable UI automation scripts using Playwright and TypeScript.
• Integrate automation suites into Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Implement advanced automation patterns and frameworks (e.g., Page Object Model) to enhance maintainability.
• Prompt-Based Automation: Demonstrate familiarity or hands-on experience with emerging AI-driven or prompt-based automation approaches and tools to accelerate test case generation and execution.
• API Automation: Develop and maintain automated test suites for APIs to ensure reliability and performance.
• JMeter Proficiency: Utilize Apache JMeter to design, script, and execute robust API load testing and stress testing scenarios.
• Analyze performance metrics, identify bottlenecks (e.g., response time, throughput), and provide actionable reports to development teams.
• Experience: 4+ years of professional experience in Quality Assurance and Software Testing, with a strong focus on automation.
• Automation Stack: Expert-level proficiency in developing and maintaining automation scripts using Playwright and TypeScript.
• Testing Tools: Proven experience with API testing tools (e.g., Postman, Swagger) and strong functional testing methodologies.
• Database Skills: Highly proficient in writing and executing complex SQL queries for data validation and backend verification.
• Performance: Hands-on experience with Apache JMeter for API performance and load testing.
• Communication: Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams (Developers, Product Managers).
• Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and debugging skills to efficiently isolate and report defects.

About the Role

Currently, we are evolving our testing approach from a Selenium-based framework towards a comprehensive, multi-layered Test Pyramid model to continuously deliver reliable, high-quality software to the market.

We are looking for a passionate QA Automation Engineer who can contribute to building and enhancing our automation frameworks across web, API, and mobile applications.

Our goal is to move away from the traditional Ice Cream Cone testing approach and adopt a scalable Test Pyramid model that emphasizes efficient, maintainable, and reliable automated testing.

You will work closely with developers, product managers, and QA engineers to ensure product quality through effective test planning, automation, continuous testing, and systematic defect management.

Interview Process

This position will have an offline/in-person interview only at our Learnyst office. Remote/online interviews will not be conducted.

About Learnyst

We are a Nasscom 10K startup with many paying customers and great traction. We help educators teach online and sell courses through their own websites and mobile learning apps.

We are building Shopify for education. Our mission is to make quality education affordable, easily accessible, and engaging.

Nice, but What Do We Do?

We provide a complete technology solution that enables educators to sell courses through their online academies.

Our platform includes a website builder, course builder, virtual classroom interface for students, video encryption and streaming services, and almost everything required to launch an online learning academy.

Tech @ Learnyst

Learnyst is hosted on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) with an auto-scaling infrastructure. More than 10 lakh learners use Learnyst for streaming course videos and taking mock tests.

Our core backend server uses Ruby on Rails with MySQL as the database. We have architected Learnyst to be a fault-tolerant, loosely coupled, and scalable system.

Our QA team works across backend APIs, web applications, and mobile applications, focusing on test automation, continuous quality improvement, and reliable product releases.

Our QA Automation Tech Stack

• Programming Language: Java
• Web Automation: Selenium WebDriver, Playwright
• Mobile Automation: Appium
• BDD Framework: Cucumber
• Testing Framework: TestNG
• API Testing: REST Assured, Postman
• Build & Dependency Management: Maven
• Defect Management: Jira, HubSpot
• Version Control: Git
• Cloud Infrastructure: Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• CI/CD & Reporting: Automated test execution, pipeline integration, and test reporting

Why Join Learnyst?

• Consistent performers will get stock options.
• Exposure to understanding market opportunities and contributing directly to company growth.
• Opportunity to work with a fast-growing EdTech startup.
• Gain hands-on experience in serving direct customers.
• Learn and grow through challenging technical opportunities.
• Work in an environment that encourages ownership, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Food & Snacks: You’ll never have to worry about your hunger pangs. We provide food and snacks throughout the day.
• Every Wednesday, we have game nights and quarterly team outings.

Must-Haves

You will be a core member of the QA team, working on important features and helping us improve the reliability, scalability, and quality of our products.

The following skill sets are essential:

Technical Skills

• Strong programming and problem-solving skills, specifically in Java.
• Hands-on experience with Selenium WebDriver and web automation.
• Knowledge of Playwright for modern web application automation.
• Working knowledge of Appium for Android/iOS mobile application testing.
• Understanding of BDD using Cucumber, including feature files, scenarios, step definitions, and reusable automation components.
• Knowledge of TestNG and Maven.
• Understanding of API testing and RESTful services.
• Ability to design, develop, and enhance scalable, maintainable, and reusable test automation frameworks.
• Good understanding of algorithms, data structures, and object-oriented programming concepts.
• Familiarity with Git and CI/CD concepts.

Quality Engineering & Defect Management

• Effective test planning by understanding product requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Ability to design and execute test cases covering positive, negative, edge, integration, and regression scenarios.
• Experience in testing backend APIs, web applications, and mobile applications.
• Ability to identify, reproduce, document, and track defects with clear steps, test evidence, and expected versus actual results.
• Understanding of defect severity, priority, impact analysis, and defect lifecycle management.
• Ability to collaborate with developers and product teams to investigate root causes and drive defects towards resolution.
• Experience in defect verification, regression testing, and validating fixes before release.
• Understanding of test reporting, release readiness, and quality gates.
• Interest in adopting the Test Pyramid approach by balancing unit, API/integration, UI, and end-to-end automation.

Mindset & Ownership

• Eager to learn, with a strong passion for quality engineering and technology.
• Ability to listen carefully, understand problems, and communicate effectively.
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability for deliverables.
• Ability to make informed decisions and discover practical solutions to challenging problems.
• Honest, dependable, and committed to consistently strong performance.
• Ability to work with tight yet realistic deadlines while understanding product strategy, market needs, and customer expectations.
• Willingness to collaborate with cross-functional teams and contribute to continuous process improvement.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Prior work experience is not a necessity.
• Personal projects, GitHub repositories, internships, or practical automation experience that demonstrate coding and testing skills are highly valued.

Interested in Joining Learnyst?

You can visit www.learnyst.com to learn more about our platform. Don’t forget to check out our customer testimonials.

If you are passionate about Java, test automation, and building reliable software, we would love to hear from you.

Talk to us and take the next step in your QA career with Learnyst!

Role:  QA Automation, Java

Experience: 8-12 Years

Employment Type: Full-time 

Location: Pune, Balewadi, Laxman Nagar (Hybrid)

Job Description

 Requirements

• Proficiency in Java for test automation.
• Deep experience with API automation (REST Assured) and BDD frameworks (Cucumber).
• Experience with Appium Mobile Automation.
• Strong experience with Playwright and/or Selenium for UI automation.
• Expertise in automation framework design — building scalable, maintainable test architectures with Page Object Model, data-driven, and keyword-driven patterns.
• Experience with performance testing tools (k6, Gatling, or JMeter) and methodology.
• Strong knowledge of build tools (Gradle, Maven).
• Experience testing distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
• Proficiency with Postman, OpenAPI/Swagger for API contract testing.
• Experience with test data management strategies at scale.
• Good knowledge of Atlassian toolchain (Jira, Confluence, Zephyr).
• Understanding of AWS cloud platform — services relevant to test infrastructure (EC2/VMs for test environments, S3/Blob for test artifacts, Device Farms for mobile testing).

Mobile QA Engineer:

Location: Bangalore WFO

Notice: 0 to 15 days (Immediate joiners preferred)

As an Intermediate Mobile QA Engineer, you will play a vital role in ensuring the quality, reliability, and performance of AI-powered mobile applications across iOS and Android platforms. Your responsibilities will include:

• Conduct comprehensive manual testing of the LifeSaver mobile application across iOS and Android devices to understand system behavior, identify edge cases, and uncover potential risks.
• Work across diverse environments and device types, including native mobile applications, web platforms, backend systems, and data-driven integrations.
• Evaluate AI-powered workflows and autonomous agents, focusing on accuracy, consistency, reliability, and user trust rather than strictly deterministic results.
• Utilize exploratory testing and risk-based testing methodologies to assess probabilistic behavior, failure scenarios, and mobile-specific challenges such as connectivity changes, permissions, push notifications, location services, and background/foreground transitions.
• Design, develop, and maintain automated tests across UI, API, and service layers using modern testing tools and frameworks such as BrowserStack, Atlassian, and Playwright.
• Continuously improve mobile test automation frameworks, testing standards, and quality assurance best practices.
• Define and implement effective testing strategies for complex, multi-step workflows that combine traditional business logic with AI-driven functionality.
• Validate application behavior across multiple devices, operating system versions, screen resolutions, and manufacturers while supporting configuration-driven and AI-assisted use cases.
• Assess mobile application performance under real-world conditions, including battery usage, memory consumption, storage constraints, and fluctuating network environments.
• Collaborate closely with Engineering, Product Management, and Platform teams to improve testability, identify risks, and establish quality expectations.
• Participate in defect triage, root cause analysis, and issue resolution, particularly for device-specific, intermittent, or non-deterministic defects.
• Integrate both manual and automated mobile testing into CI/CD pipelines using simulators, emulators, and physical device farms to support high-quality releases.

Required Qualifications

To thrive in this role, you should possess the following skills and experience:

• 4+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance (QA) with a strong emphasis on mobile testing, test automation, and exploratory testing.
• Proven expertise in manual testing of complex mobile applications and workflows on both iOS and Android platforms.
• Hands-on experience testing AI-powered applications, intelligent workflows, or systems with probabilistic behavior.
• Strong understanding of mobile testing concepts, including device fragmentation, OS compatibility, application permissions, network connectivity states, and background/foreground behavior.
• Experience applying exploratory, risk-based, and system-level testing approaches to identify quality risks effectively.
• Ability to evaluate AI-driven outcomes based on correctness, consistency, reliability, and user confidence rather than traditional pass/fail criteria.
• Practical experience testing both mobile applications and their associated APIs.
• Familiarity with cloud-based testing and device farm solutions such as BrowserStack, Sauce Labs, or Firebase Test Lab.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, automated test execution, and modern software delivery practices.
• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify subtle defects and edge-case scenarios.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate testing risks, uncertainties, and quality assessments to product and engineering teams.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in mobile performance testing, accessibility testing, or security testing is considered an added advantage.

Technology Stack

Mobile Platforms & Development Tools

• iOS Operating System
• Android Operating System
• Xcode
• Android Studio
• Atlassian Suite

Test Automation & Quality Assurance

• Playwright
• BrowserStack
• Sauce Labs
• Firebase Test Lab
• API Testing Tools
• Performance Testing Tools
• Modern Test Automation Frameworks

DevOps & Continuous Delivery

• CI/CD Pipelines
• Automated Test Execution
• Device Farms
• Mobile Simulators & Emulators
• Physical Device Testing

Objective of the Role:

We are looking for top-notch SDET with 1 - 4 years of experience, who will deliver on key initiatives, starting from the ideation phase all the way to development and product delivery

You Will :

• Development of iOS/Android test automation on mobile test harnesses
• Develop and enhance to the existing automation scripts, tools and framework using Java, TestNG and Appium
• Execute automated test plans and regression tests for iOS/Android applications
• Define testing strategies and scope for user stories and technical development tasks
• Provide estimates on testing efforts to Product and Engineering team members
• Maintain and improve the test coverage and ratio of automated test
• Advocate Automated Testing and CI/CD methodology, review and advise testing methods and best practices
• Identify, investigate, report, and track defects
• Deliver high-quality features and infrastructure to production
• Continuously learn new tools, technologies, and testing disciplines
• Able to work under minimal supervision and quick to adopt new technologies
• Work collaboratively across multiple teams
• Communicate all concerns and status with SQA manager on timely manner
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Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field or equivalent work experience
• A track record of improving quality
• 1+ years of test automation experience with expertise in iOS/Android app testing
• Experience on TestNG, Java, Appium, XCUITest with expertise in programming skills using Java
• Experience in Selenium webdriver, Experience using Xcode instruments
• Experience using BrowserStack or similar for app automation
• Expertise in software QA methodologies, tools, and processes
• Expertise in test design, test automation frameworks, and scripting tests
• Experience with MongoDB
• Experience with Git, DevOps CI/CD pipelines
• Good knowledge of data warehouses, data lakes and ETL pipelines (AWS, Athena, Redshift Spectrum, Postgres, SQL, etc) is a plus
• API Automation testing experience using JEST, Mocha, REST Assured or similar frameworks is a plus
• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written a must
• Experience with Scrum methodologies and remote teams is a plus!

We are looking for a Quality Assurance Engineer to own testing across our products. The primary focus is MyMotor, Zoop’s consumer vehicle services application on Android and iOS, which helps users look up vehicle registration details, check and pay traffic challans, store documents, and access insurance, FASTag, fuel price and EV charging services.

Alongside the mobile application you will also be responsible for testing the MyMotor website and the backend APIs that both products depend on. This is a hands-on role on a small engineering team, where you will be the last check before a release reaches customers, including flows where a defect costs a user real money.

Requirements

• 2-3 years of hands-on experience in software quality assurance, including testing mobile applications.
• Practical experience testing both Android and iOS applications on real devices, not only emulators and simulators.
• Experience testing web applications, including cross-browser and responsive behaviour.
• Hands-on API testing experience using ApiDog/Postman or a comparable tool, with the ability to read JSON, interpret status codes and validate a response against a contract.
• Ability to write clear, complete test cases and test plans from requirements, designs or acceptance criteria.
• A strong defect report: precise reproduction steps, expected versus actual behaviour, correct severity, and the logs, recordings and build details a developer needs to act without asking follow-up questions.
• Working understanding of the software testing life cycle and of functional, regression, smoke, sanity, integration and exploratory testing.
• Experience with a defect tracking tool such as Linear or Jira.
• A working understanding of client-server architecture and of how a mobile or web client communicates with a backend.