Experience required: 3 years

This role is responsible for designing, developing, executing, and maintaining automated test scripts using OpenText Unified Functional Testing(UFT).

The role focuses on improving testing efficiency, reducing manual regression effort, and ensuring software quality across web, desktop, SAP, API, and enterprise applications.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

UFT Automation / QA Test Engineer

• Design, develop, enhance, and maintain automated test scripts using UFT/QTP for web, desktop, SAP, API, and enterprise applications.
• Analyze business requirements, functional specifications, user stories, process flows, and acceptance criteria to identify test scenarios and automation opportunities.
• Create and maintain automation frameworks using VBScript, reusable functions, object repositories, descriptive programming, parameterization, recovery scenarios, and test data management techniques.
• Develop and execute automated regression, smoke, sanity, functional, integration, and end-to-end test suites across multiple application releases.
• Perform manual testing when required, including test case design, execution, defect validation, exploratory testing, and UAT support.
• Identify, document, track, and manage defects using tools such as ALM/Quality Center, Jira, Azure DevOps, or similar defect management systems.
• Integrate UFT automation assets with test management tools such as ALM/Quality Center for test lab execution, result tracking, and reporting.
• Review test results, analyze failures, troubleshoot automation issues, and coordinate with developers and business teams for defect resolution.
• Maintain reusable test data, data-driven scripts, external data sources, and database validation checks using SQL where applicable.
• Support test planning and collaborate with QA leads, developers, business analysts, product owners, and project managers to ensure complete test coverage and timely delivery.

Additional Responsibilities

• Drive automation framework improvements and best practices by optimizing reusable components, enhancing script reliability, reducing execution time, and ensuring maintainable coding standards across UFT automation suites.
• Support CI/CD and release validation activities by integrating automated test execution with build/release pipelines, coordinating regression runs, analyzing execution results, and providing quality sign-off inputs for production deployments.
• AI & Emerging Technology Skills

Education

• Bachelor's Degree Computer Science required or
• Bachelor's Degree Information systems required

Work Experience

• Minimum 3 years of relevant experience. required

Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Core Technical Skills

• Strong programming skills in Java / Python / VB Script
• Experience in test automation frameworks
• Hands-on experience in API testing and automation
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines