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QA Engineer resume that gets past ATS

Indian hiring for QA Engineer roles (SDET / testing) is competitive across services and product. Typical packages for solid profiles land around 3.5–12 LPA, with wide variance by city and company tier. Panels care about risk-based testing, not checkbox QA.

Skills language to mirror

When the job description names these — and you have them — use the same wording. Indian ATS and recruiter searches are literal.

Manual + automation · Selenium/Playwright · API testing · Jira

ATS tips for QA Engineer

• Mirror the JD's exact stack terms when you truly have them — especially Manual + automation, Selenium/Playwright, API testing.
• Show bugs that saved releases; automation coverage
• Use standard headings (Summary, Experience, Projects, Skills, Education). Avoid tables and text boxes that break Indian ATS parsers.
• Put the target title (QA Engineer) near the top if it matches the role you want next.

Common mistakes

• Manual-only résumé for SDET JDs that demand Playwright or Cypress in the first screen.
• Listing Selenium without API or DB validation stories — fintech QA panels in India probe payments flows.
• No bug that blocked a release or saved a production incident.
• Automation coverage claimed with no framework, repo, or flaky-test handling example.

Interview angle (preview)

Panels often probe: risk-based testing, not checkbox QA. Practise: Test strategy for a payments flow; flaky tests.

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