Senior Test Engineer

Overview

Role Overview:

We are looking for a Senior Test Engineer, 4+ years of experince, with deep expertise in functional API testing and test automation. This role sits at the intersection of Quality Assurance and Product Engineering, requiring close collaboration with developers, product managers, and cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality software delivery.

The ideal candidate is technically strong, ownership-driven, and capable of independently designing and maintaining scalable automation frameworks while championing quality practices across the SDLC.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain robust API and UI test automation frameworks from scratch.
• Perform comprehensive API testing — functional, integration, contract, and load — across REST and GraphQL interfaces.
• Write and execute test plans, test cases, and exploratory charters for new features and regression cycles.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines for continuous quality feedback.
• Identify, log, and track defects using JIRA with clear reproduction steps, severity tagging, and root-cause documentation.
• Conduct performance and load testing using tools like k6, Locust, or JMeter to validate system behavior under stress.
• Drive test coverage analysis, gap identification, and quality metrics reporting to stakeholders.
• Collaborate with developers during code reviews to ensure testability and early defect prevention.
• Lead regression, smoke, and release validation efforts independently.
• Mentor junior QA engineers and promote quality best practices across the team.

Mandatory (Non-Negotiable) Requirements:

• 4+ years of hands-on QA experience with a strong focus on API and automation testing.
• Deep understanding of REST API concepts — HTTP methods, status codes, authentication (OAuth2, JWT, API keys), request/response validation.
• Proficiency in at least one automation language: Python, JavaScript, or Java.
• Hands-on experience with UI and API automation frameworks such as Pytest-requests, RestAssured, or Playwright.
• Experience designing test automation architecture — not just writing tests, but structuring maintainable, scalable frameworks.
• Strong understanding of SDLC, defect lifecycle, and shift-left testing principles.
• Familiarity with CI/CD concepts and pipeline integration for automated test execution.

Required Skills & Tools:

• Postman / Apidog — advanced API testing, collections, environments, and scripting.
• Selenium / Pytest / Playwright — automation framework development and maintenance.
• JMeter / k6 / Locust — load and performance testing.
• JIRA — defect tracking, test cycle management.
• Git — version control, branching strategy, code review participation.
• CI/CD Tools — GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or equivalent for pipeline integration.
• SQL / NoSQL basics — database validation as part of end-to-end test coverage.

Good to Have:

• Exposure to AI/ML systems testing or responsible AI evaluation frameworks.
• Knowledge of contract testing tools such as Pact.
• Experience with agentic testing architectures or MCP-based tooling.
• Background in VAPT revalidation or security-adjacent QA workflows.
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum ceremonies and sprint-based delivery.

About PrivaSapien:

With Privacy regulations coming across the globe, all data centric business models using or abusing personal data are being disrupted. Moreover every business is becoming a data business today. Hence, Privacy engineering is the need of the hour globally to meet the emerging requirements and establishing digital trust with customers & regulators, across industry verticals.

PrivaSapien is a pioneering and award-winning privacy deep tech research company working towards building a spectrum of Privacy Enhancing Technology based products and services to unlock data without violating people’s privacy. PrivaSapien has won Niti Aayog’s Aatmanirbhar Bharath Award, Data Security Council of India’s Privacy Challenge in two categories of ‘Purpose limitation’ and ‘Privacy due diligence’.

We are currently working with Indian, American, European and Japanese companies across industry verticals like Healthcare, Automobile, Advertisement, Consulting, Insurance, Telcos etc and also some Indian govt PSUs to unlock data without violating people’s privacy. We have recently secured funding from a reputed US VC firm. We have also filed multiple international privacy engineering patents.

Our Vision & Work Culture:

• Vision: PrivaSapien’s vision is to innovate and drive the “Evolution of the privacy era”. PrivaSapien strongly believes that privacy is a fundamental right in the digital era. Without privacy, human being’s thoughts, emotions, buying behavior and even voting can be manipulated with their own data and make humans AlgoSalves. Hence, PrivaSapien builds privacy engineering products, platforms and services that make digital experiences safer for humanity, at the same time creating strategic advantage for businesses in the privacy era.

• Passion: PrivaSapiens are a group of people who are extremely passionate about privacy and are crazy enough to believe that we can protect privacy of every person across the world, using our innovate products and services.

• Integrity & Trust: At PrivaSapien, Integrity is a fundamental uncompromisable tenet. Integrity creates trust and trust is the foundation for any long-term relationship & ultimately success, especially in the area of privacy, where customer trusts us with their data.
  
  Customer first, Customer last: We are obsessed with customer value creation. Every action and decision at all levels will be based on customer’s requirements and preference in mind.

• Adaptability: As Charles Darwin stated, “The species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment”. In these interesting and disruptive times, more than your skills, your adaptability to emerging requirements is the key to success.

• Innovation: We are an innovative Company at the core of everything we do. Each employee is empowered to be innovative in every aspect of their job and is expected to set the standard for the industry to follow.

• Perseverance: PrivaSapien strongly believes that there is no substitute to hard work. Privacy is the right thing to do, but it is an uncharted territory. At ‘PrivaSapien’, we persevere to create and show the world the right path to privacy. But it’s not easy, so be prepared for lots of learning’s, challenges and burning lot of midnight oil.

• Experimentation: PrivaSapien encourages structured rapid experimentation which can accelerate learning, fail quickly, identify the best option under given constraints, guide each one of us in taking strategic and impactful decisions, provide competitive advantage and thus be a pioneer.

• Collaboration: PrivaSapien is a close-knit family with shared vision and purpose. It’s important that we jump-in along with our colleagues in solving issues and support each other at all times. United by the purpose, we will make this world a better and safer place, even in the face of seemingly impossible challenges.

• Fun: Life is a journey, and every moment is precious. So, follow your heart and have fun while achieving your professional and personal dreams. We at ‘PrivaSapien’ encourage a positive, transparent, non-hierarchal and fun filled working environment.