Technical Lead-Testing Services

Birlasoft Limited

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About The Position

The mission of this role is to build, scale, and maintain front-end test automation for React-based applications using Cypress with a BDD/Gherkin workflow. The engineer will integrate tests into CI/CD, reduce flakiness, and provide high-signal quality feedback for releases. The primary focus is on React UI automation (E2E and component testing) with Cypress. API testing is also required to validate REST APIs consumed by the frontend using Cypress (cy.request) and/or Postman/MSW. Light contract testing is considered a plus.

Requirements

• 3–5+ years in QA automation with React/JavaScript/TypeScript; 2+ years hands-on with Cypress (v10+), including component and E2E testing.
• Strong experience testing React applications (SPAs or Next.js) and familiarity with common patterns (hooks, state management, routing).
• Proven BDD/Gherkin experience with Cypress cucumber preprocessor (e.g., @badeball/cypress-cucumber-preprocessor), writing clear feature files and maintainable step definitions.
• API testing for REST/GraphQL: cy.request, authentication (OAuth/OIDC/JWT), request/response validation, Postman/Newman.
• CI/CD pipeline integration (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI) with test parallelization, artifacts, and reporting.
• Solid understanding of test design techniques (boundary, equivalence, negative/state-based testing) and strategies to reduce flakiness.
• Expertise in Cypress intercept/mocking, stubs, fixtures; network conditioning and time controls.
• Git proficiency and code review experience; Agile/Scrum collaboration.

Nice To Haves

• React Testing Library, Jest/, vitest, and Cypress Testing Library; MSW for network mocking.
• Accessibility testing (axe-core) and basic performance checks (Lighthouse).
• Cross-browser Cypress runs (Chrome/Firefox) and containerized test execution.
• Experience with micro-frontends or Storybook-driven component testing.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain Cypress automation for React apps (TypeScript), covering E2E, integration, and component tests.
• Author Gherkin feature files and step definitions; align tests with product acceptance criteria and living documentation.
• Build and evolve the automation framework: project structure, custom commands, fixtures/test data, environment configuration, stable selectors, and utilities.
• Integrate automation into CI/CD (parallelization, retries, test dashboards, flaky test detection, reporting).
• Perform API testing for frontend-consumed endpoints REST, including authentication flows, data setup/cleanup, and error handling.
• Collaborate with developers, QA, and product to refine testability, review PRs, triage failures, and drive root cause analysis.
• Establish and enforce best practices (selector strategy, intercept/mocking, accessibility checks, performance smoke, cross-browser runs).
• Track coverage and risk; propose automation strategies to maximize impact while minimizing maintenance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed