Job Description

Senior SDET / QA Engineer (Automation)

Department: Engineering

Location: HSR Layout, Bangalore (Work From Office)

Employment Type: Full-Time

Company: appsforbharat.com

About AppsForBharat

AppsForBharat is on a mission to help millions of Indians connect with spirituality and culture through beautifully crafted, AI-first consumer experiences. Backed by Peak XV Partners, Elevation Capital, Fundamentum, and other top investors, we’re a Series C faith-tech startup built by alumni from IITs, IIMs, and high-growth startups.

Our flagship product, Sri Mandir, is the world’s largest platform for Hindu devotees enabling digital rituals, spiritual teachings, personalized recommendations, and a thriving devotional community.

India’s $44B devotion economy is still largely offline and we’re building the technology, design, and infrastructure to bring it online with trust, scale, and quality. As part of our Engineering team, you’ll play a key role in ensuring that these deeply meaningful experiences are reliable, performant, and delightful for millions of users every day.

Role Overview

As a Senior QA Engineer (Automation), you will drive product quality across all stages of development and deployment. You’ll take complete ownership of defining QA strategy, implementing robust automation frameworks, and ensuring every release meets our high standards of reliability, performance, and user delight.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced startup environment, loves solving problems, and is passionate about building scalable and flawless user experiences.

Key Responsibilities

Define & Execute QA Strategy:
Develop and implement test strategies covering functional, regression, integration, and exploratory testing.
Automation Leadership:
Build and maintain scalable automation frameworks integrated into CI/CD pipelines to improve speed, reliability, and test coverage.
Collaborate Early:
Partner closely with Product and Engineering teams to ensure testable requirements and early QA involvement in the development cycle.
Release Readiness:
Own end-to-end release validation, including regression testing, defect triage, and final sign-off on product quality.
Quality Metrics & Reporting:
Define, track, and communicate key QA metrics (defect leakage, build health, test coverage) to drive data-backed improvements.
Performance & Security Testing:
Conduct basic performance and security validation to ensure system robustness.
Mentorship & Best Practices:
Guide junior QA engineers, promoting test design excellence, automation best practices, and continuous improvement.
Process Optimization:
Continuously enhance QA processes through retrospectives, automation expansion, and shift-left testing principles.
Documentation:
Maintain comprehensive documentation of test cases, strategies, bug reports, and quality incident postmortems.

What We’re Looking For

5 – 10 years of QA experience in product-based startups, ideally in B2C environments.
Proven expertise in test automation (e.g., Selenium, Appium, Cypress, Playwright, etc.).
Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, API testing, and test design principles.
Hands-on experience with manual and exploratory testing.
Ability to handle multiple projects independently and drive them to completion.
High sense of ownership, accountability, and attention to detail.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Willingness to work from the office (HSR Layout, Bangalore).