• Design, develop, and maintain large-scale integration and end-to-end automated tests • Build scalable automation solutions validating desktop and mobile clients, APIs, and system interactions • Strengthen layer-appropriate automation (API/integration vs GUI) • Apply advanced test architecture and automation design patterns • Contribute to the evolution of the test framework and shared testing libraries • Identify gaps in automated coverage and areas of regression risk • Apply risk-based thinking to prioritize automation work • Reduce over-reliance on brittle GUI automation by strengthening lower-level validation • Proactively propose improvements that increase framework scalability, reliability, and maintainability • Create and manage virtual environments (Windows, Ubuntu) • Automate testing for desktop and mobile clients across virtualized environments • Configure Windows and Linux systems for automated testing • Automate desktop and mobile GUI using Qt-based tools • Continuously improve test infrastructure to make it robust, fast, and scalable • Ensure automated tests provide fast, trustworthy CI feedback • Optimize test execution to improve feedback cycles and build reliability • Investigate and systematically reduce test flakiness • Improve pre-commit, smoke, and regression gating • Partner with developers to distinguish product defects from test instability • Contribute to reducing defect leakage into production • Improve infrastructure scalability to support faster test execution and larger coverage • Investigate failures using logs, dumps, and backtraces • Use tools like strace and procmon to dig into system-level issues • Analyze failures across different OS environments • Collaborate with developers and teammates to identify root causes • Communicate findings clearly, with actionable next steps • Write clean, readable, and maintainable Python code (3.10+) • Maintain professional Git history • Participate in strict code reviews and design discussions • Contribute to long-term framework evolution and infrastructure improvements • Develop reusable testing utilities and shared automation libraries • Mentor junior engineers and promote automation best practices across the team • Support continuous improvement of engineering standards and testing practices