Role
Overview
We
are looking for a highly experienced Senior/Lead QA Automation Engineer to
design, develop, and maintain scalable test automation frameworks using Python
and Robot Framework. The ideal candidate will play a key role in driving
quality engineering practices, defining automation strategies, and ensuring
high-quality delivery of complex financial and digital solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain robust and scalable
automation frameworks using Python and Robot Framework
- Define and implement test automation strategy,
standards, and best practices
- Lead end-to-end automation testing efforts across web,
API, and backend systems
- Build and maintain automated test suites for
regression, functional, integration, and smoke testing
- Collaborate with developers, business analysts, and QA
teams to understand requirements and ensure test coverage
- Integrate automation suites with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitLab, etc.)
- Perform API testing using tools such as Postman,
REST Assured, or Python-based libraries
- Drive shift-left testing practices and improve overall
test efficiency
- Analyse test results, identify causes of failures,
and work closely with development teams for defect resolution
- Mentor junior QA engineers and provide technical
guidance
- Participate in sprint planning, estimation, and release
planning activities
- Ensure adherence to quality standards, coding
guidelines, and test documentation practices
Required Skills & Experience
- 8 - 10+ years of experience in Software Testing /
Quality Engineering
- Strong hands-on experience in Python automation
development
- Expertise in Robot Framework for test automation
- Solid understanding of Selenium WebDriver or similar
UI automation tools
- Strong experience in API testing (RESTful services,
JSON, XML)
- Experience working with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Azure
DevOps, or GitHub Actions
- Good understanding of version control systems (Git, Bit bucket)
- Strong knowledge of SDLC, STLC, Agile/Scrum
methodologies
- Experience in writing reusable, maintainable, and
scalable test scripts
- Strong debugging, analytical, and problem-solving
skills
Skills Required
- 8–10+ years of experience in software testing or quality engineering
- Strong hands-on experience with Python automation development
- Expertise with Robot Framework
- Experience with Selenium WebDriver or similar UI automation tools
- Strong experience in API testing, including RESTful services, JSON, and XML
- Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or GitHub Actions
- Understanding of version control systems including Git or Bitbucket
- Knowledge of SDLC, STLC, and Agile/Scrum methodologies
- Experience writing reusable, maintainable, and scalable test scripts
- Strong debugging, analytical, and problem-solving skills
What We Do
Kumaran Systems is an IT Services Company with imprints in three countries. The past two decades has seen us provide our global clientele with high-end IT services that include migration support, system integration and infrastructure management solutions, providing one-stop-solution to all your IT demands. Our expertise and in-depth knowledge of businesses help us cater to a variety of industries. Our team strives to know your industry better, by observing current trends and the way it works, to tailor-make our solutions to your needs.With over 20 years of customer orientation, over 2000 engagements across Telecom, Education and Banking & Financial services spread across the globe, Kumaran stands as a key advisor to some of the largest Fortune 500 companies in their business driven technology enablement drive. Kumaran System's Customer Orientation is driven by a global delivery business model giving its customers to choose between an Onshore-Offshore mix. The delivery models enable multilevel touch points between the client, partner networks and Kumaran thereby enabling business driven customer sensitivity and agility. ENGAGE, EMERGE AND EXCEL Involving ourselves in a purposeful action, using our abilities to its maximum, helps us feel positive about ourselves. Such positivity gives raise to positive thinking and positive ideas. Ideas evolve into vision and set our aim! Our aspirations engage us with the incentive of sweet success! Every endeavor has its own pitfalls. Perseverance helps us emerge a successful entrepreneur after any deterrent. In our attempt to achieve our aim, we keep upgrading our knowledge and skill, to surface successful! A genius mind does not work to excel, but excels in work! We challenge ourselves with every next step! We change every deterrent to a stepping stone to success. We essentially, engage, emerge and excel
