QA Leadership & Strategy
- Define and implement QA strategies, standards, and best practices for AEM projects.
- Lead and mentor QA engineers, providing technical guidance and direction.
- Establish quality gates across the SDLC and ensure adherence to testing processes.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance testing efficiency and product quality.
• Participate in project planning, estimation, and release readiness activities. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure quality is embedded throughout the development lifecycle.
- Establish and enforce test case review processes, ensuring all test artifacts undergo QA Lead review and approval prior to execution. Functional Testing
- Review business requirements, user stories, functional specifications, and acceptance criteria.
- Develop comprehensive test plans, test cases, test scenarios, and traceability matrices.
- Validate AEM components, templates, workflows, content fragments, and experience fragments
. • Perform end-to-end testing across Author, Publish, Dispatcher, and Production environments.
- Conduct regression, integration, system, smoke, sanity, and UAT support testing.
- Validate responsive behavior across multiple browsers and devices. Test Management & Review
- Create and maintain detailed test cases in AgileTest aligned with business requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria
. • Ensure complete test coverage and traceability between requirements, test cases, and defects.
- Conduct internal test case reviews and provide sign-off before execution to ensure quality, consistency, and adherence to testing standards.
- Review test scenarios and test cases prepared by QA team members, provide constructive feedback, and drive continuous improvement in test design and coverage.
AEM-Specific Testing • Test AEM Sites, Assets, Forms, and Headless implementations.
- Validate content authoring, publishing workflows, approval processes, and versioning.
- Verify dispatcher caching rules and content delivery mechanisms.
• Test integrations with Adobe Analytics, Adobe Target and third-party systems. • Validate SEO-related implementations within AEM. UI/UX & Figma Validation
- Review and interpret UI/UX designs from Figma
. • Validate implemented screens against Figma designs for pixel-perfect accuracy.
- Ensure consistency in layouts, typography, colors, spacing, responsive behavior, and user interactions.
- Collaborate closely with designers and developers to identify and resolve UI/UX deviations.
- Support design QA activities during sprint and release cycles.
Test Automation • Design, develop, and maintain automation frameworks using Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, or similar tools.
- Automate UI, API, and regression test suites for AEM applications
. • Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
- Monitor and improve automation coverage and execution efficiency.
- Analyze automation results and drive continuous quality improvements. API & Integration Testing
- Validate REST APIs, GraphQL APIs, and microservices used within AEM solutions.
• Perform functional and integration testing of connected systems. • Utilize tools such as Postman, Swagger, and REST Assured for API validation. Accessibility Testing
- Lead accessibility testing initiatives and ensure compliance with WCAG 2.1/2.2, ADA, and accessibility standards.
- Conduct accessibility audits using tools such as ANDI, NVDA and Level access, Lighthouse, and Accessibility Insights.
- Validate keyboard navigation, focus management, screen reader compatibility, color contrast, and semantic HTML compliance.
- Work closely with development and UX teams to remediate accessibility issues.
- Ensure accessibility compliance is integrated into release quality gates.
Defect Management & Reporting • Manage the defect lifecycle using JIRA.
- Track quality metrics and provide regular status reports to stakeholders.
- Conduct root cause analysis and implement defect prevention strategies.
- Support release sign-offs and production validation activities.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
- 8+ years of QA experience with at least 3+ years in a QA Lead role.
- 3+ years of hands-on experience testing Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) applications.
- Strong understanding of AEM architecture, content management concepts, Author/Publish environments, Dispatcher, and workflows.
- Experience in manual and automated testing methodologies.
- Strong knowledge of Agile, Scrum, DevOps, SDLC, and STLC practices.
- Experience working with distributed teams and multiple stakeholders.
Technical Skills Must-Have
- Adobe Experience Manager (AEM Sites, Assets, Forms)
• Selenium / Playwright / Cypress • API Testing (Postman, REST Assured) • JIRA, Confluence • Git, Jenkins, Azure DevOps • Accessibility Testing (WCAG, Axe, Lighthouse, Wave) • Figma Design Validation and UI Review • SQL and Database Validation • Browser Developer Tools Good-to-Have • Adobe Analytics • Adobe Target • Adobe Launch • Adobe Commerce • GraphQL APIs • JMeter / LoadRunner • SEO Testing and Validation • Mobile and Responsive Testing • AEM Cloud Service Experience
Soft Skills • Strong leadership and team management skills. • Excellent stakeholder management and communication abilities. • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. • Ability to effectively collaborate with developers, architects, designers, and business teams. • Strong attention to detail, particularly for UI/UX and accessibility compliance. • Ability to work in a fast-paced Agile delivery environment.
