Staff Engineer, QA Automation (API Testing)

👋🏼We're Nagarro.

We are a Digital Product Engineering company that is scaling in a big way! We build products, services, and experiences that inspire, excite, and delight. We work at scale across all devices and digital mediums, and our people exist everywhere in the world (17500+ experts across 39 countries, to be exact). Our work culture is dynamic and non-hierarchical. We're looking for great new colleagues. That's where you come in!

REQUIREMENTS:

• Total Experience 7+ years
• Strong experience in software testing e, including experience in automating test cases for web applications
• Expertise in API testing, database validation, and wide-ranging test methodologies.
• Experience using Selenium WebDriver and TFS, JIRA, GIT, Jenkins or other CI/CD tools
• Design, develop and execute automated tests using Java, C#, JavaScript, Python, VBScript, Maven or other languages as required.
• Strong experience in Cloud development.
• Solid experience with tools such as Selenium, Playwright, Rest Assured, Appium, JMeter.
• Hands-on with GenAI platforms (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini) and AI-powered development/test tools like ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot.
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and microservices architectures.
• Should have experience in one Cucumber or Specflow.
• Have a good experience in Test Automation Framework, Behavior Driven Testing, Gherkin, Jenkins, API Testing, Test Planning and Strategy, Rest Assured as required
• Use testing tools such as UFT, TOSCA, Test Complete, Katalon Studio, Appium, Coded UI, Protractor, Selenium, or other tools as required.
• Use testing frameworks such as Junit, Nunit, TestNg or other frameworks as required.
• Solid understanding of Agile principles and experience working in an Agile environment
• Collaborate with the software development team and other stakeholders on software quality

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Understanding the projects functional and non-functional requirements and the business context of the application being developed. Understanding and documenting requirements validated by the SMEs
• Interacting with clients to identify the scope of testing, expectations, acceptance criteria and availability of test data and environment. Working closely with product owner in defining and refining acceptance criteria.
• Preparing test plan/strategy
• Estimating the test effort and preparing schedules for testing activities, assigning tasks, identifying constraints and dependencies
• Risk management – identifying, mitigating and resolving business and technical risks. Determines the potential causes of problems and analyses multiple alternatives.
• Designing and developing a framework for automated testing following the project's design and coding guidelines. Set up best practices for test automation.
• Preparing test reports to summarize the outcome of the testing phase and recommending whether the application is in a shippable state or not
• Communicating measurable quality metrics, with the ability to highlight problem areas and suggest solutions
• Participating in retrospective meetings, helping identify the root cause of any quality related issue and identifying ways to continuously improve the testing process
• Conducting demos of the application for internal and external stakeholders
• Working with team and stakeholders to triage and prioritize defects for resolution
• Giving constructive feedback to the team members and setting clear expectations

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field.