Sr. QA Automation Lead/ Sr. QA Engineer Experience- 8+ yrs Shift timing: 2:30 PM to 11:30 PM IST Job Location: Remote The Sr. QA Automation Lead is responsible for improving, integrating, and maintaining all facets that drive code quality throughout the pipeline. An individual in this role must be comfortable with supporting and expanding existing testingframeworks and demonstrate a track record of setting up an automation test framework from the ground up. This role challenges its owner to work quickly and effectively as a team leader, sharing technical knowledge and leading the team to build high-quality software. This position will work under minimal supervision, will be heavily involved in writing and reviewing the test code, providing technical mentorship and support to more junior automation engineers.Role Responsibilities Own, lead, design and implement test strategies, and frameworks, for complex applications and deployment topologies Work closely with the development, quality assurance, and product management teams to build and improve our automated testsRecommend and evaluate new tools to improve productivity, efficiency and quality Assess current framework and testing strategies Analyze Business, Functional, Technical and UI (User Interface) project/release requirementsAssist with defining QA test Protocol and processes Develop, maintain, and support post-deployment automated tests Mentor junior team members on technical concepts and implementations Skills and Qualifications Excellent collaboration, listening, written and verbal communication skills Demonstrate a complete understanding of Quality that extends beyond the confines of testing.Minimum 7+ years test automation experience including RESTful APIs/Services, Functional Testing, Performance Testing and Load TestingHands on QA Automation experience including definition of automation strategies and development of automated test suiteExperience with SoapUI, Rest Assured, Cucumber, Cypress, Selenium, Java, Python, Pytest, JIRA, Confluence, TestRail, GithubPossess analytical, problem solving and Root Cause Analysis skills Experience with data validation and writing simple SQL queries Exposure to Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Test Automation preferred Experience with Node.js and React a plus