Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

About the role

We are looking for an experienced Senior Quality Assurance Engineer to join our QA team in Kathmandu. The role focuses on building and maintaining automated test frameworks, conducting performance and security testing, and integrating these activities into our CI/CD pipeline. The ideal candidate thrives in agile environments and is passionate about delivering high‑quality, scalable software.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop and execute comprehensive test plans, test cases and test scripts.
• Perform functional, regression, integration, API, security and performance testing.
• Develop and maintain automated test frameworks using tools such as Selenium, Playwright or Cypress.
• Identify, document and track software defects through to resolution.
• Collaborate closely with developers and coordinate with the Australian team.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and contribute to continuous process improvement.

Required profile

• Minimum 5+ years of professional experience in software quality assurance.
• At least 2+ years of experience in test automation.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field; relevant QA certifications are a plus.
• Strong understanding of the Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Excellent analytical, problem‑solving and communication skills.

Required skills

• Automation tools: Selenium, Playwright, Cypress.
• API testing tools: Postman, REST Assured.
• SQL and database testing.
• CI/CD pipelines and version control (Git).
• Defect tracking tools: Jira, Azure DevOps.
• Security testing tools: OWASP ZAP, Burp Suite (preferred).
• Performance testing tools: JMeter, LoadRunner (preferred).
• Cloud environment experience with AWS (preferred).
• Familiarity with AI‑assisted testing or AIOps (preferred).