Job Description
Job Title/Role: Senior QA Automation Engineer
Mode of hire: Full-Time
Base Location: Guindy, Chennai
Mode of work: Hybrid
Shift Timing: (US time-zone overlap preferred)
Department: QA
Experience: 5 to 8 Years
Notice : Preferred Only Immediate to 30 days
About the Role
- We are seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer to build and maintain automated quality coverage for Carta maintenance and regression cycles. This role helps the team improve release confidence without creating brittle automation.
- Carta is Access's enterprise document and workflow platform family, including CartaHR, CartaDC, and CartaAP.
- CartaHR is a cloud-based HR document management system that centralizes employee records for fast, secure, and compliant access from anywhere.
- The broader Carta codebase also powers document retrieval, scheduled processing, integrations, workflow automation, retention controls, and customer-specific deployments across the Carta product suite.
- This team is focused on maintaining, stabilizing, and modernizing the existing codebase. No net-new product functionality is expected as part of this staffing model.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Build and maintain automated tests for critical UI flows, APIs, and integration-heavy maintenance scenarios.
- Work with developers to improve testability and identify stable automation targets.
- Integrate automated checks into CI/CD and release-readiness workflows where practical.
- Use SQL and API knowledge to validate behavior beyond the UI layer.
- Help define where manual testing remains the better fit and where automation should expand.
- Coach QA teammates on automation-friendly test design and reusable test assets.
Required Skills & Experience
- 5+ years of QA automation experience in web and API-driven systems.
- Hands-on experience with UI automation, API testing, and scripting or programming for test development.
- Strong understanding of maintainable automation design and flakiness reduction.
- Ability to debug failures caused by data, environment, contracts, or timing issues.
- Strong collaboration habits with engineering teams.
Qualifications
- Cypress, Jest, Postman or equivalent API automation experience preferred.
- SQL validation experience preferred.
- Strong communication and quality ownership.
Core Competencies
- Automation strategy
- Technical problem solving
- Quality advocacy
- Collaboration
- Continuous improvement
