SeniorQAEngineer(Automation+Data+Kafka)

**This role is for one of the Weekday's clients** **Salary range: Rs 1600000 - Rs 2800000 (ie INR 16-28 LPA)** Experience: 5+ yrs Location: India Job Type: Remote (India) We are looking for a highly skilled QA Engineer with strong expertise in test automation, API validation, Kafka event-driven architectures, and data quality assurance. In this role, you will own the end-to-end quality strategy for complex distributed systems and data integration platforms, ensuring reliability across APIs, event pipelines, databases, and downstream data warehouses. You will work closely with engineering, product, and business teams to validate data accuracy, system performance, and platform stability throughout the software development lifecycle. The ideal candidate brings a strong blend of manual and automated testing capabilities, deep understanding of ETL testing and data validation, and hands-on experience testing microservices and event-driven applications. This position offers an opportunity to play a critical role in building high-quality, scalable platforms by driving robust testing frameworks, improving release confidence, and ensuring seamless data flow across interconnected systems. **Requirements** ### Key Responsibilities * Design and implement comprehensive test strategies covering unit, integration, contract, system, and end-to-end testing. * Validate API functionality, performance, and reliability using automation frameworks and testing tools. * Test Kafka-based event pipelines, including producers, consumers, message flows, and event processing logic. * Perform end-to-end data validation across APIs, Kafka streams, databases, and data warehouses. * Build, maintain, and optimize automated test suites using frameworks such as PyTest, Selenium, Jest, or equivalent tools. * Conduct ETL testing and data reconciliation to ensure consistency and accuracy across distributed systems. * Validate AVRO schemas and manage contract testing for schema compatibility and versioning