Senior QA Engineers; Offshore

Position: Senior QA Engineers (Offshore role)
Job Title:

Senior QA Engineers

Location:

Remote role (Anywhere in India) but work as per EST hr for our projects in Toronto, Canada
Duration: contract role (6+ months)

Note:

- Working hour EST Time Zone
Need an immediate joiner (within 2–3 weeks)

Job Description:

Experience:

10–15 years
Tools:
Cypress (Web), Appium (Mobile), Azure Devops, API, Automation

Role Summary
We are looking for a  Senior QA Automation Engineer  with  strong Cypress-first web automation ,  Appium mobile automation , and experience operating in an  Azure-native ,  microservices- based environment.
This is a hands-on role requiring ownership of quality across web, mobile, and APIs, with the ability to embed directly into engineering teams and drive automation strategy.

Must-Have Skills (Non-Negotiable)
Web Automation (Primary)

· Strong hands-on experience with Cypress for E2E testing

· Proficient in JavaScript / Type Script

· Experience designing stable, maintainable test frameworks
o Page Object Model or component-based patterns
o Robust selector strategies (data-test IDs, avoiding brittle selectors)

· Proven ability to debug and stabilize flaky tests

Mobile Automation

· Hands-on Appium experience for Android and iOS

· Experience testing Flutter-based mobile applications

· Familiarity with device clouds (Browser Stack, Sauce Labs)

API Testing & Automation

· Strong REST API testing fundamentals

· Experience with Postman/Newman or equivalent

· Comfortable validating authentication, pagination, idempotency, error handling, and contract adherence

Azure-Native CI/CD

· Hands-on experience with Azure Dev Ops Pipelines

· Integrating automated tests into CI/CD workflows

· Experience with test stages, quality gates, artifacts, reporting, and environment-aware execution

Required Technical Context (Senior-Level Expectations)
Frontend

· Working knowledge of Angular

· Ability to validate UI workflows end-to-end
Backend

· Experience testing .NET-based APIs

· Comfortable collaborating with backend engineers on testability, mocking, and integration testing
Architecture

· Strong experience testing microservices and distributed systems

· Understanding of asynchronous workflows, retries, eventual consistency, and idempotent APIs

Data

· Familiarity with Cosmos DB

· Data validation patterns, query verification, and test data setup/teardow

Non-Functional Testing

· Performance testing using tools such as k6 or JMeter

· Ability to interpret results and drive improvements

· Security awareness including OWASP top risks and basic auth

N/auth

Z validation

Strongly Preferred

· Azure Application Insights and telemetry validation

· Release readiness and go-live support

· Triage leadership during release windows

· Flaky test management and parallelization strategies