Senior Quality Engineer

At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world.

Senior Quality Engineer

Location:  Hyderabad

Job Type: Full-Time Employee

Experience: 6-9 Years

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field

Job Summary

The Senior Quality Engineer will lead test automation strategies and implement advanced testing methodologies for web, mobile, AI and API applications. They will work closely with development teams to integrate test automation into CI/CD pipelines. The role requires hands-on experience in test automation frameworks, API validation, and performance testing.

Key Responsibilities

 Technology Adoption & Implementation: Independently applies testing technologies, automation frameworks, and industry best practices to enhance software quality. Identifies and integrates tools, components, and libraries to improve test efficiency, scalability, and reliability.

 Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) Expertise: Demonstrates a deep understanding of the SDLC within an Agile model, contributing to sprint planning, test strategy design, and execution. Proactively enhances test processes to align with Agile development cycles.

 Test Automation & Engineering Excellence

• Designs, implements, and maintains automated test scripts using tools or framework like Pytest, Selenium, Cypress and WebdriverIO, .
• Develops robust API test automation and validates RESTful APIs using tools like Postman and REST Assured.
• Performs load and performance testing using JMeter to ensure system reliability under various conditions.
• Works with cloud-based testing environments such as AWS, Kubernetes, and Docker, ensuring seamless integration of testing within DevOps pipelines.
  
  
  

 Test Design & Problem-Solving: Designs and implements test solutions for complex software challenges, ensuring efficient defect detection and prevention. Implements comprehensive testing strategies for web, mobile, API, and backend systems.

 Quality Enhancement & Maintenance: Leads efforts to improve and maintain test automation frameworks and quality assurance processes, ensuring scalable and maintainable test solutions. Reviews and optimizes automation test frameworks to enhance reliability and performance.

 Mentorship & Team Collaboration

• Mentors junior QA engineers, providing guidance on test automation best practices, frameworks, and tools.
• Reviews and improves test automation code, ensuring adherence to quality standards and maintainability.
• Encourages knowledge sharing and collaborative learning within the team.
  
  
  

 Process Optimization & Continuous Improvement: Adheres to and enhances Quality Engineering processes to drive automation, efficiency, and accuracy. Identifies areas for improvement and proactively implements solutions.

 Agile & DevOps Collaboration

• Engages in Agile ceremonies, such as sprint planning, retrospectives, and defect triage meetings, to align quality assurance with development and DevOps teams.
• Contributes to CI/CD test automation pipelines, ensuring test execution as part of deployment workflows.
  
  
  

 Proactive Communication & Leadership

• Speaks up in team discussions, advocating for testability, automation, and process improvements.
• Collaborates across teams to establish a quality-first mindset and drive strategic quality engineering initiatives.
  
  
  

Required Technical Skills & Qualifications

• Strong experience with test automation frameworks (Selenium, WebdriverIO, Cypress, Appium).
• Hands-on expertise in API testing using Postman, REST Assured, or GraphQL.
• Experience in CI/CD integration with DevOps tools like GitHub, Jenkins, and Azure DevOps.
• Proficiency in Java / Java Script / Type Script / Python
• Strong knowledge of Agile development and quality engineering best practices.
  
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to AI-based testing strategies and LLM evaluation.
• Experience in performance and security testing.
• Familiarity with model evaluation frameworks like RAGAs and DeepEval.
  
  
  

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