Job Title/Role: Senior QA Automation Engineer
Mode of hire: Full-Time
Base Location: Guindy, Chennai
Mode of work: Hybrid
Shift Timing: (US time-zone overlap preferred)
Department: QA
Experience: 5 to 8 Years
Notice : Preferred Only Immediate to 30 days
About the Role
- We are seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer to build and maintain automated quality coverage for Carta maintenance and regression cycles. This role helps the team improve release confidence without creating brittle automation.
- Carta is Access's enterprise document and workflow platform family, including CartaHR, CartaDC, and CartaAP.
- CartaHR is a cloud-based HR document management system that centralizes employee records for fast, secure, and compliant access from anywhere.
- The broader Carta codebase also powers document retrieval, scheduled processing, integrations, workflow automation, retention controls, and customer-specific deployments across the Carta product suite.
- This team is focused on maintaining, stabilizing, and modernizing the existing codebase. No net-new product functionality is expected as part of this staffing model.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Build and maintain automated tests for critical UI flows, APIs, and integration-heavy maintenance scenarios.
- Work with developers to improve testability and identify stable automation targets.
- Integrate automated checks into CI/CD and release-readiness workflows where practical.
- Use SQL and API knowledge to validate behavior beyond the UI layer.
- Help define where manual testing remains the better fit and where automation should expand.
- Coach QA teammates on automation-friendly test design and reusable test assets.
Required Skills & Experience
- 5+ years of QA automation experience in web and API-driven systems.
- Hands-on experience with UI automation, API testing, and scripting or programming for test development.
- Strong understanding of maintainable automation design and flakiness reduction.
- Ability to debug failures caused by data, environment, contracts, or timing issues.
- Strong collaboration habits with engineering teams.
Qualifications
- Cypress, Jest, Postman or equivalent API automation experience preferred.
- SQL validation experience preferred.
- Strong communication and quality ownership.
Core Competencies
- Automation strategy
- Technical problem solving
- Quality advocacy
- Collaboration
- Continuous improvement
Skills Required
- 5+ years of QA automation experience in web and API-driven systems
- Hands-on experience with UI automation, API testing, and scripting or programming for test development
- Strong understanding of maintainable automation design and flakiness reduction
- Ability to debug failures caused by data, environment, contracts, or timing issues
- Strong collaboration habits with engineering teams
What We Do
Access is the fastest growing information management provider, globally. We’ve grown through our commitment to exceeding the expectations of our clients, company and community every day. We’re dedicated to delivering the very best customer experience to our clients, growth opportunities for our team members and active involvement and service to our local communities. For businesses requiring secure, cost-effective management of paper and digital documents, Access is the responsive partner with the proven expertise to help leverage your information assets. Access delivers extensive paper and digital document services with powerful technologies, analytics, and metrics to manage the lifecycle of your documents and, unlike traditional document storage options or technology offerings that only provide a partial solution, we provide comprehensive solutions and the very best service that advance the way our 27,500 clients manage information.
