Senior QA Engineer-Cloud

Company Overview: Schneider Electric is a global leader in energy management and automation, committed to providing innovative solutions that ensure Life Is On everywhere, for everyone, and at every moment. We are expanding our team in Gurugram and looking for a Senior QA engineer with strong experience in cloud application testing, API validation, and end-to-end feature validation. candidate will be responsible for ensuring the quality, reliability, and performance of our cloud-based platforms and microservices. This role demands hands-on technical expertise, strong analytical thinking, and the ability to collaborate across engineering, DevOps, and product teams.

Responsibilities:

• Cloud Feature Testing:
• Perform end-to-end validation of cloud features deployed across microservices, serverless components, APIs, and cloud infrastructure.
• Validate cloud workflows, integrations, and user journeys across distributed systems.
• Conduct functional, regression, integration, and exploratory testing on cloud-based applications.
• API & Microservices Testing:
• Design, execute, and automate API test suites using tools like Postman, RestAssured, Swagger, or similar.
• Validate payloads, API responses, authentication mechanisms, error codes, and performance behaviors.
• Automation & Framework Contribution:
• Build and enhance automated test scripts for API, backend, and cloud workflows.
• Integrate automation suites into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins/GitLab/Azure DevOps).
• Improve automation coverage and contribute to framework enhancements.
• Test Planning and Design:
• Develop comprehensive test plans and strategies to cover all aspects of software functionality.
• Ensure test setup and test env preparedness.
• Identify test data requirements and prepare test data sets.
• Review of test cases (TC) ensure coverage of tests as per the Test strategy.
• Test Execution:
• Execute manual and automated tests to verify software functionality, performance, and usability.
• Log and track defects using bug tracking tool Jira.
• Review of test results so that products are defect free and meets stated & implied requirements.

• Mentorship:
• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior QA engineers, sharing best practices and fostering a culture of quality within the team.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 8-10 years of experience with deep expertise in cloud testing.
• Experience in designing and executing test cases.
• Hands-on experience with API automation and tools like Postman and Playwright API.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions).
• Familiarity with cloud environments (AWS, Azure) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments, with experience in Test Management tools like Jira and X-Ray.
• Experience in performance testing with JMeter.
• Knowledge of security testing and compliance standards.
• Understanding of AI-assisted testing tools to enhance script generation and maintenance.
• Manual Testing: Strong command of functional, usability, integration and system testing of web-based applications.
• Experience in Smart Buildings, IoT platforms, or cloud-based data intensive systems
• Expertise in Software Test Life Cycle (STLC) like Functional, Integration, System, Compatibility, Exploratory, Acceptance, smoke, Sanity, Regression testing.
• Experienced in Requirement analysis, Use-case analysis, change management and configuration management.
• Experienced in Managing, Coordinating, Planning and executing the testing with multiple cross functional team and Agile process.

• Excellent problem-solving abilities and strong communication skills.

• Advanced verbal and written communication skills including the ability to explain.
• Good judgment, time management, and decision-making skills
• Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills; ability to communicate and thrive in a cross-functional environment