Product Quality Engineer II

Job Requirements

Phenom intro:

Our purpose is to help a billion people find the right work! Phenom is an AI-Powered talent experience platform that is redefining the HR tech space. We have grown into a global organization with offices in 6 countries and over 1,500 employees. As an HR tech unicorn organization, innovation and creativity is within our DNA. Come help us make every talent moment Phenomenal! 

We are looking for a Senior Automation test engineer with 5 to 7 years of experience & below requirements

Key Responsibilities

Product & Quality Ownership

• Own end-to-end quality for assigned product areas, from requirements to release sign-off.
• Participate in requirement and design discussions; validate business workflows and customer use cases, including async and event-driven flows.
• Define comprehensive test strategies across UI, APIs, and event-based systems.
• Ensure coverage for BVT, Sanity, Regression, and Exploratory testing.

Automation & Frameworks

• Design and maintain scalable automation frameworks using Playwright/Selenium with Python or Java.
• Build reusable abstractions for UI, API, and event-driven automation.
• Establish frameworks and guidelines enabling reliable, low-flakiness automation adoption across teams.

Asynchronous & Event-Driven Testing

• Test complex async workflows using Kafka or similar messaging systems.
• Validate event schemas, contracts, ordering, retries, idempotency, and failure scenarios.
• Design strategies for multi-hop flows, DLQs, replay, and eventual consistency.
• Collaborate with engineering teams on observability and traceability.

Performance & Reliability

• Execute performance, load, and stress testing using JMeter, k6, or similar tools.
• Analyze production-grade metrics (P95/P99 latency, throughput, error rates).
• Validate system behavior under spikes, partial failures, and downstream slowness.

Tooling, AI & CI/CD

• Use Python/Java to build internal tools for test data, event mocking, and orchestration.
• Leverage AI tools to accelerate test creation, maintenance, and failure analysis.
• Integrate UI, API, and event-based automation into Jenkins CI/CD pipelines.
• Improve pipeline stability and reduce async test flakiness.

Usability, Accessibility & Agile

• Validate usability and accessibility (WCAG) across critical workflows.
• Align quality activities with Agile/Scrum processes and sprint exit criteria.
• Proactively identify risks in complex async dependencies.

Required Skills & Experience

• 5 to 7 years of experience in testing.
• Strong experience in Playwright/Selenium automation.
• Proficiency in Python or Java.
• Hands-on experience testing event-driven, asynchronous systems (Kafka).
• Experience with performance testing tools and production metrics analysis.
• CI/CD integration using Jenkins.
• Strong foundations in manual testing types and end-to-end test strategy creation.
• Ability to mentor junior QEs and communicate quality risks effectively.

Nice to Have

• Experience with distributed microservices-based SaaS systems.
• Knowledge of schema registries, contract testing, and observability tools.

Benefits 

We want you to be your best self and to pursue your passions!

• Benefits/programs to support holistic employee health
• Growing organization with career pathing and development opportunities

Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Our commitment to diversity runs deep! Diversity is essential to building phenomenal teams, products, and customer experiences. Phenom is proud to be an equal opportunity employer taking collective action to build a more inclusive environment where every candidate and employee feels welcomed.  

We recognize there is more to be done. Our teams are committed to continuous improvement until these powerful ideas are ingrained in our culture for Phenom and employers everywhere!