Senior QA Automation Engineer

Role overview

Senior QA Automation Engineer at Bounteous

The ideal candidate should have strong hands-on experience with Playwright automation , preferably using Java , along with a good understanding of banking workflows, particularly Client Onboarding, KYC, AML, and Financial Crime Compliance .

We are looking for an experienced QA Automation Engineer with 5+ years of software testing experience to work on a large-scale banking Client Onboarding and KYC platform .

The candidate will be responsible for functional, integration, end-to-end, regression, and automation testing across complex workflows involving multiple upstream and downstream systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, maintain, and execute automated test suites using Playwright .
• Develop and enhance automation frameworks, preferably using Java + Playwright .
• Automate complex end-to-end Client Onboarding and KYC workflows.
• Perform functional, regression, integration, API, and end-to-end testing.
• Understand business requirements and translate them into comprehensive test scenarios and test cases.
• Validate workflows involving multiple interconnected applications and backend systems.
• Perform API testing and backend/data validation where required.
• Validate data movement across upstream and downstream systems.
• Perform database validation using SQL.
• Investigate automation failures and distinguish application defects from framework/environment issues.
• Execute automated regression suites through CI/CD pipelines.
• Analyze pipeline failures, logs, screenshots, traces, and other test artifacts.
• Work closely with developers, business analysts, product owners, and other QA engineers.
• Participate in defect triage and root-cause analysis.
• Maintain high-quality automation code using appropriate coding and framework design practices.
• Contribute to improving test coverage, execution time, stability, and parallel execution of automation suites.
• Mandatory Technical Skills 5+ years of overall QA/testing experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with Playwright .
• Strong programming experience, preferably Java .
• Hands-on experience building or maintaining UI automation frameworks.
• Strong understanding of: Page Object Model (POM) Locators and selectors Assertions Wait strategies Browser contexts Parallel execution Test data management Screenshots, tracing, and debugging Experience with TestNG/JUnit or similar test frameworks.
• Good knowledge of REST API testing .
• Experience with tools such as Postman and/or REST Assured.
• Good SQL knowledge and experience performing database validations.
• Experience with Git and source-control workflows.
• Experience executing automated tests through CI/CD pipelines , preferably GitLab CI/CD.
• Ability to troubleshoot flaky tests, synchronization issues, browser/session problems, and parallel execution failures.
• Mandatory Banking/KYC Domain Knowledge The candidate must have practical experience working on Banking or Financial Services applications , preferably Client Onboarding/KYC platforms.
• The candidate should understand how KYC information flows between different systems and how approval, validation, exception, and compliance workflows operate within a large financial institution.
• Candidate Expectations We are specifically looking for someone who is hands-on , rather than someone whose recent experience has primarily been coordination or test management.
• The candidate should be comfortable: Writing Playwright automation code independently.
• Debugging an existing automation framework.
• Understanding complex business workflows.
• Writing SQL queries for validation.
• Testing APIs independently.
• Investigating CI/CD failures.
• Discussing KYC scenarios with business stakeholders.
• Identifying edge cases rather than relying solely on documented test cases.

Employment details

• Location: Bengaluru [India]