QA Automation Engineer

Shuru

This is a remote position.

Shuru is an AI-native engineering services company building products with leading startups, enterprises, and well-funded scale-ups across India, Southeast Asia, the UAE, and global markets. Our engineers work in small, dedicated squads, ship in weekly cycles, and use AI-assisted development tools (Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) as a standard part of how we build. We hire for fundamentals, give engineers real ownership, and back them with a culture that respects deep work.

We are looking for a hands-on QA Lead who can take ownership of product quality across backend services, web, and mobile applications. The role requires strong backend/API automation expertise, solid QA leadership, and the ability to communicate confidently with clients and engineering teams. A key focus of this role will be improving QA efficiency through AI-assisted and AI-driven automation. We are looking for practical experience applying AI within real QA workflows.
Responsibilities

4+ years of experience in QA automation, SDET, or mobile test automation roles.
Work with Playwright, Appium, Maestro, and React Testing Library.
Write scalable tests using semantic locators and reusable test patterns.
Optimize large test suites through sharding, parallel execution, retries, and rerunning failed suites.
Integrate QA automation into CI/CD pipelines.
Generate nightly QA reports and track test health.
Debug flaky tests and improve test reliability.
Collaborate with engineering and product teams to improve release quality.

Requirements

4–5+ years of QA / Quality Engineering experience.
Strong backend/API automation experience.
Strong understanding of automation framework design.
Experience with API testing and database validation.
Experience integrating automation into CI/CD.
Familiarity with Playwright.
Hands-on experience incorporating AI into QA automation workflows.
Git and standard software development workflows.

Preferred

Node.js / JavaScript automation experience.
Maestro for mobile automation.
PostgreSQL or similar relational databases.
Experience testing microservices and distributed systems.
Experience with queues, asynchronous processing, or event-driven systems.
Cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Performance/load testing exposure.
Leadership & Client Management
This is not a purely execution-focused QA role. The candidate should be comfortable operating as the QA owner for a project.

Benefits

Competitive salary and benefits package.
Work with experienced product and engineering leaders.
Flexible and remote-friendly work culture.
Opportunities for learning, mentorship, and career growth.
A chance to make a real impact across diverse, innovative projects.