Job Description

The QA Automation Engineer is responsible for designing developing executing and maintaining automated test scripts to ensure the quality and reliability of software applications This role collaborates with development product and QA teams to build test frameworks optimize test coverage identify defects early and support continuous integration and delivery pipelines

Key Responsibilities

Automation Framework Script Development

Design and develop automation frameworks for web mobile API or backend systems

Create and maintain automated test scripts using tools like Selenium Cypress Playwright RestAssured Appium or equivalent

Build reusable test components and libraries to improve test efficiency

Test Planning Execution

Analyze requirements user stories and acceptance criteria to develop test strategies and test cases

Execute automated regression smoke integration and performance tests

Continuous Integration DevOps

Integrate automated tests into CI CD pipelines Jenkins GitLab CI GitHub Actions Azure DevOps

Work closely with DevOps engineers to ensure automated tests run efficiently across environments

Monitor troubleshoot and maintain stable automated test execution workflows

Quality Assurance Collaboration

Identify document and track defects using issue trackers such as Jira or Azure Boards

Collaborate with developers to reproduce issues and ensure timely resolution

Participate in design and code reviews from a QA perspective

Performance Security API Testing as applicable

Conduct API automation using Postman Newman RestAssured or similar tools

Execute performance testing with JMeter Gatling or Locust if required

Support security testing by validating vulnerabilities and ensuring safe coding practices

Required Skills Qualifications

2 6 years of experience in QA automation

Strong proficiency in automation tools frameworks such as

Selenium WebDriver Cypress Playwright Appium RestAssured

Hands on experience with programming scripting languages

Java Python JavaScript or TypeScript

Experience with CI CD version control Git and build tools Maven Gradle

Solid understanding of testing methodologies unit integration functional regression and E2E

Experience with Agile Scrum development processes

Selenium BDD Framework

About Virtusa

Teamwork, quality of life, professional and personal development: values that Virtusa is proud to embody. When you join us, you join a team of 27,000 people globally that cares about your growth -- one that seeks to provide you with exciting projects, opportunities and work with state of the art technologies throughout your career with us.


Great minds, great potential: it all comes together at Virtusa. We value collaboration and the team environment of our company, and seek to provide great minds with a dynamic place to nurture new ideas and foster excellence.


Virtusa was founded on principles of equal opportunity for all, and so does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.