Sr. QA Engineer

We are looking for a Sr. QA Engineer to be an integral part of a cross-functional Agile product development group, responsible for ensuring the quality, reliability and usability of the HR/cloud solution. You ll collaborate closely with Product Owners, Developers, UX/Design, DevOps and other QA peers to define test strategy, execute test plans (manual + automation), raise quality metrics, and advocate for the end user.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in sprint planning, backlog grooming and stand-ups to understand upcoming features, acceptance criteria and risks.
• Define test strategy, test objectives and scope for features in the Lyric product.
• Design, develop and execute test cases (manual and automated) that cover UI, API, integration and system behavior.
• Build and maintain automation suites using tools such as Selenium (or other UI automation frameworks), API test tools, BDD frameworks (e.g., Cucumber).
• Execute functional, regression, integration, system, performance and usability tests.
• Work with DevOps/CI pipelines (e.g., Jenkins) to integrate automation and ensure build quality.
• Collaborate with developers to locate root causes, reproduce issues, provide detailed bug reports (with steps to reproduce, logs, screen captures, data), and verify fixes.
• Advocate for quality by identifying gaps in test coverage, recommending improvements in the process, toolchain or product design.
• Generate and present metrics on test coverage, defect trends, automation execution, and quality status to stakeholders.
• Champion best practices around QA in the team (e.g., shift-left testing, pair testing, automation early in sprint).
• Stay current with new testing tools, frameworks or techniques, and coach/mentor junior QA engineers as needed.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Ideally automation testing with playwright experience.
• Several years of professional QA/test engineering experience in a software development environment (UI + API + integration testing).
• Strong experience with automation frameworks (e.g., Selenium WebDriver) and test script development (languages such as Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python).
• Experience with BDD frameworks (Cucumber, SpecFlow) and writing feature/scenario files.
• Experience in API testing (Postman, REST/SOAP services) and backend testing (databases, SQL).
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins) and integrating automation into the build pipeline.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills; ability to communicate with both technical and non technical stakeholders.
• Comfortable working in an Agile/Scrum environment dynamic, ambiguous requirements, fast pace.

Desired Skills:

• Experience with modern UI frameworks (e.g., React, Angular) or mobile testing frameworks.
• Experience working on SaaS/cloud-based HR / HCM products.
• Experience mentoring other QA engineers, contributing to team process improvement
• Familiarity with performance / load testing (JMeter, etc.) or accessibility testing (WCAG)