Senior QA Analyst

mcfadyen

Kochi 5 Years Exp Posted 2h ago

Job Description

  1. AI-Assisted Test Design & Execution
  2. Playwright-Based Test Automation
  3. Test Planning & Functional QA
  4. Web, Responsive & User Experience Testing
  5. Defect Management & Cross-Functional Collaboration

Additional Must have Responsibilities

    • Leverage AI tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, or equivalent AI assistants as part of day-to-day QA activities.
    • Use AI to analyze requirements, generate and refine test scenarios, identify edge cases, generate test data, analyze defects, and improve testing efficiency.
    • Validate AI-generated outputs rather than blindly relying on them.
    • Develop, maintain, and execute Playwright-based automated tests for functional and regression coverage.
    • Use AI coding/testing assistants to accelerate automation development and improve automation coverage.
    • Ensure automated tests remain aligned with verified application behavior and requirements.
    • Translate requirements, user stories, and engineering notes into structured test scenarios, test cases, and test plans.
    • Perform functional, integration, regression, exploratory, and release testing.
    • Use requirements/tickets as the source of truth and avoid making assumptions about intended behavior.
    • Test content-heavy web applications across desktop, tablet, and mobile.
    • Validate search, navigation, content rendering, filters, editors, threads, comments, notifications, links, permissions, and other user journeys.
    • Identify usability, functional, content, and responsive issues.
    • Identify, reproduce, document, and track defects with clear steps, expected vs. actual results, severity, and supporting evidence.
    • Work closely with Product and Engineering teams to clarify requirements, resolve defects, address blockers, and support release readiness.
    • Clearly distinguish confirmed defects from requirement/design ambiguity and escalate where clarification is required.

Top 5 — Good to Have Responsibilities

  1. AI Agentic QA & Workflow Development
    • Experience creating or using AI-powered QA workflows/agents for requirement analysis, test generation, UI exploration, test-data generation, defect analysis, or test-result analysis.
    • Exposure to Playwright MCP or similar agentic testing approaches.
  2. API & Technical Testing
    • Experience with API testing and browser Developer Tools.
    • Ability to inspect network requests, API responses, console errors, DOM state, and other technical information to troubleshoot issues.
  3. QA Metrics & Quality Analytics
    • Track metrics such as test coverage, automation coverage, execution trends, defect leakage, defect trends, regression effectiveness, and release quality.
    • Use AI to identify patterns, anomalies, and recurring quality issues.
  4. Programming & Automation Engineering
    • Working knowledge of JavaScript/TypeScript or Python.
    • Understanding of automation framework structure, reusable components, dynamic test data, and test maintainability.
  5. CI/CD & DevOps
    • Familiarity with Git/GitHub, GitHub Actions/Jenkins, Docker, and CI/CD concepts.
      • Ability to execute and troubleshoot automated tests as part of CI/CD pipelines.

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