QA Automation Tester

This role is for one of the Weekday's clients Salary range: Rs 500000 - Rs 3000000 (ie INR 5 - 30 LPA) Min Experience: 5+ years Location: Pune (Hybrid) JobType: full-time We are looking for a Senior SDET to own automation strategy, architect scalable test frameworks, and drive quality engineering across web, API, and mobile for Musafir's cloud-native travel platform. What You'll Do Architect and maintain scalable automation frameworks in Playwright (TypeScript/Python) Define automation strategy, coverage, and quality KPIs; mentor SDETs Build API, contract, and performance testing integrated into CI/CD pipelines Lead defect triage, RCA, and shift-left / quality-gate practices Partner with Dev and DevOps on testability, test infrastructure, and release quality Execute testing across web, mobile apps, and backend services Requirements What You Must Have 5-8 years in SDET / automation with strong coding (TypeScript, Python; Java/C# a plus) Expert Playwright (primary) and framework design (POM, data-driven, keyword-driven) API testing (Postman, Swagger, REST/SOAP) and performance (JMeter/Gatling/k6) CI/CD (Azure Pipelines/GitHub Actions), Docker; Jira, TestLink, BDD (Cucumber/SpecFlow) Dashboards/KPIs (Grafana/Elasticsearch); Agile/Scrum and microservices testing Nice to Have ISTQB / Playwright certification; travel/OTA/e-commerce domain Cloud testing (AWS/Azure); DB testing; contract testing (Pact); security (OWASP) AI Skills — Ready To Use AI-assisted test generation and maintenance — self-healing locators and AI test-data synthesis Use AI copilots for Playwright/TypeScript authoring and code review LLM-based validation (test oracles) and failure triage; prompt basics Awareness of AI evaluation and guardrails when testing AI-powered features Must-have Skills QA Automation, Typescript, playwright Good-to-have Skills JMeter, REST APIs, Postman