Senior Automation QA Engineer

About the role

Light & Wonder's digital team leads the global iGaming market, delivering content and software for online gaming providers. As a Senior Automation QA Engineer in Bengaluru (ITPB Whitefield, Bengaluru/Pune), you will define QA strategy, build and maintain UI/API automation frameworks, and drive test plans and automation standards. The role is hybrid and full-time, requiring 5-7 years of software testing experience.

What you’ll do

• Define and drive QA strategy, test plans and automation standards
• Review test cases, scripts and defect reports; track automation coverage and quality metrics
• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills across manual and automated testing, including defect root-cause analysis and CI/CD pipeline failures
• Collaborate with Dev, Product, and DevOps for seamless delivery
• Working knowledge of Linux/Unix OS and Maven build lifecycle
• Experience with CI/CD practices and tools (Jenkins, Docker)
• Good analysis and problem-solving skills
• Experience with Maven and the build lifecycle

What you’ll bring

• 5-7 years of experience in software testing
• Strong expertise in UI and API automation testing using Selenium or Playwright with Java (Playwright provides an advantage)
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming and automation framework design principles
• Hands-on experience in Agile/Scrum environments
• Proficiency in Git, Jira and qTest (or equivalent tools)
• Experience integrating automation frameworks with CI/CD pipelines
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Good knowledge of Java and OO software design principles

Nice to have

• Experience with TDD, BDD, Gherkin and Cucumber
• Good to have: a scripting language (Bash, Python) and performance/monitoring tools (Prometheus, Gatling, JMeter)

Skills