Quality Engineer - Automation [T500-25717]

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About Bupa:

Bupa is a purpose-driven organization with no shareholders, we reinvest our profits to improve the quality, accessibility, and affordability of healthcare. Our focus is on helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives through innovation across digital health, insurance, and care delivery.

Our Global Capability Centre (GCC) in Gurugram, India, is a key innovation hub, bringing together technology, digital, and operations teams to support global markets across the UK, India, and Asia-Pacific.

At the GCC, we leverage automation, AI, and agile ways of working to deliver personalized, digital-first healthcare experiences at scale - accelerating innovation and bringing products to market faster.

Job Title: Quality Engineer - Automation.

Grade:

B14

Profession: Engineering – Level 2

Discipline: Testing

Department: Bupa Capability Centre (BCC)

Location: Gurgaon, BCC – India.

Role Overview:

The Quality Engineer - Automation is responsible for delivering high quality, automation led testing within Agile Dev

Ops, product centric delivery teams. The role focuses on building, executing, and maintaining robust automated test suites, ensuring quality is embedded throughout the Software Development Lifecycle in line with Bupa Testing Practice, standards, and Quality Gate requirements.

The role works closely with Architects, Developers, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and other Quality Engineers to ensure functional; integration, end to end, regression, and non-functional testing is delivered effectively and consistently.

This is a hands-on automation role, with Playwright as a core skill and exposure to API automation considered a strong advantage.

Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities:

Quality Engineering Delivery:

• Act as an independent Quality Engineer within Agile Dev

Ops, product centric delivery teams

• Deliver testing in line with approved Test Strategies and Test Plans, adhering to Bupa Testing Practice and delivery lifecycles (SDLC, ADLC, IDLC)

• Ensure testing activities provide appropriate Quality Gate evidence

• Act as a quality custodian, ensuring defects, risks, and quality concerns are identified and addressed early.

Automation & Shift Left Testing:

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test packs with high efficiency and quality.

• Build and enhance automation frameworks following Bupa standards and best practices

• Execute automated tests as part of CI/CD pipelines.

• Support shift left testing, working closely with developers to improve testability.

• Contribute to the continuous improvement of automation standards, tooling, and frameworks

• Leverage low code / no code tools where appropriate to improve coverage and speed.

Test Design & Execution:

• Develop test specifications, test cases, scripts, and traceability matrices aligned to business requirements and user stories

Design test scenarios covering:

• Functional flows

• Integration points

• Negative and edge cases

• Usability considerations

• Maintain regression test packs and ensure they remain current

• Identify, create, and manage test data for manual and automated testing

Execute and evaluate:

• Automated tests

• Manual tests where required

• Analyze test results and produce clear, accurate test reports

Risk, Defect & Quality Management:

• Identify testing and quality risks and propose mitigation strategies

• Log, track, and support resolution of defects using approved Bupa tools (e.g. Azure Dev

Ops)

• Follow Bupa change management and defect management processes

• Produce testing documentation and metrics to support delivery and assurance

• Participate in Post Implementation Reviews and continuous improvement activities

Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement:

• Work hand in hand with developers throughout the development lifecycle to ensure quality is built in.

Participate actively in:

• Requirements and story analysis

• Sprint planning

• Daily stand ups

• Reviews and retrospectives

Review and provide quality input into:

• Business requirements

• Functional specifications

• User stories

• Test strategies, results, and release notes

• Support UAT and implementation phases, including OAT support where required

• Share knowledge, best practices, and learning within the Quality Engineering Community.

Non-Functional Testing (Good to have):

Develop and execute non functional testing in line with Bupa standards, including:

• Performance testing

• Accessibility testing

• Visual testing.

Core Skills (Aligned to SFIA v8):

TEST – Functional Testing (Level 3):

• Designs and executes test cases and scripts aligned to defined acceptance criteria

• Applies agreed standards for manual and automated testing

• Automates testing tasks and expands test coverage

• Analyses and reports on test results, issues, and risks

BPTS – Acceptance Testing (Level 3):

• Designs and executes test scenarios against pre-defined acceptance criteria

• Validates functional and non-functional outcomes

RELM – Release and Deployment (Level 3):

• Supports release planning and scheduling

• Participates in release assurance and testing activities

• Follows defined release and deployment processes

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Strong hands-on automation experience (essential)

Proven experience using:

• Playwright (Type

Script / Java

Script) - mandatory

• Experience designing and executing automated tests for web applications

• Exposure to API automation (good to have)

• Experience working within Agile / Dev

Ops delivery models

• Experience with test and defect management tools (e.g. Azure Dev

Ops)

Understanding of:

• Functional, integration, end to end, and regression testing

• Test data management

• Strong analytical, problem solving, and collaboration skills

Good to Have:

• API automation experience (Karate / Postman / similar)

• Experience with Low Code / No Code automation tools

• Exposure to AI assisted testing

• Cloud exposure (Azure / GCP)

• Accessibility or performance testing experience

Qualifications & Professional Standards;

• ISTQB Foundation or Intermediate (preferred)

• Experience: typically, 2-7 years in Quality Engineering

• Minimum 2 years relevant hands-on automation experience

Strong understanding of:

• Testing principles and techniques

• Delivery lifecycles (SDLC, ADLC, IDLC)

• Enterprise testing standards

Behavioral & Leadership Expectations:

• Demonstrates structured and logical problem solving

• Able to select appropriate testing approaches with limited supervision

• Strong ownership mindset and delivery focus

• Adapts effectively to change and evolving priorities

• Communicates clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Actively contributes to improving Bupa Testing Practice

Freedom of Action & Dimensions:

• Works independently within defined testing frameworks and standards

• No line management responsibility

• No budget ownership