Associate Test Manager(AEM)

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.