Senior Engineer I - QA

Overview

Own the QA test strategy and hands-on automation for Contentstack's Platform (web and API), covering frontend, backend, data pipelines and release go/no-go decisions.

What you'll do

• Own the test strategy for Platform (Web and API), deciding what runs on every PR, nightly and at release
• Perform frontend and backend testing across Platform web, REST APIs, analytics and data pipelines
• Perform regression and sanity testing across environments and cloud regions (AWS, GCP, Azure) and give a clear go/no-go for releases
• Design, build and maintain UI and API automation frameworks (Playwright/Selenium), including shared page objects, fixtures, test data and stable selectors
• Add automated quality gates to CI/CD pipelines, and track and fix flaky tests
• Plan and run performance and load tests for APIs and data pipelines
• Validate data correctness for analytics and metering pipelines (completeness, duplicates, reconciliation)
• Build internal scripts and tools to automate QA processes and test data creation
• Generate testing reports, status reports and QA metrics (pass rate, defect escape rate)
• Create and maintain the test case repository
• Provide feedback to developers, review test code and pull requests
• Mentor junior QA engineers and help developers write better tests
• Complete tasks in a timely manner
• Update internal product documentation

What you'll need

• 3 to 5 years of QA experience, with at least 2 years in test automation
• Strong experience with JavaScript/TypeScript based E2E frameworks such as Playwright or Cypress.io
• Experience designing an automation framework from scratch (page objects, fixtures, reporting)
• Strong knowledge of JSON and REST, and API test automation (Postman/Newman, REST Assured, Playwright API or similar)
• Experience in load testing with tools such as JMeter, k6 or Locust
• Knowledge of continuous integration and hands-on experience with Jenkins, GoCD or GitHub Actions
• Experience using GitHub and Git, including code reviews
• Experience with a bug reporting and test management tool such as JIRA
• Strong knowledge of the system development life cycle and the testing life cycle
• Experience in Agile/Scrum
• Good SQL and data validation skills

Nice to have

• Experience testing data or analytics pipelines
• Experience with logs and monitoring tools (Observe, Datadog or similar) for root cause analysis
• Basic knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes and cloud (AWS, GCP or Azure)

Details

• Location: Chennai
• Self-directed, with the ability to detect and solve problems