Lead Java Automation Test Engineer

We are seeking a Lead Java Automation Test Engineer with strong expertise in Java automation frameworks, API testing, and CI/CD integration to design scalable automation solutions, drive quality engineering practices, and mentor teams to accelerate software testing and delivery.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, enhance, and maintain scalable test automation frameworks using Java
• Build robust automation solutions using Selenium
• Lead framework architecture decisions focused on scalability, maintainability, and reusability
• Implement parallel execution strategies and optimize execution times across browsers and platforms
• Develop reusable libraries, utilities, and framework extensions
• Design and implement API automation solutions for REST and SOAP services
• Validate XML and JSON payloads through serialization and deserialization techniques
• Handle session management and API integration testing
• Conduct code reviews and enforce clean coding standards
• Establish and govern coding standards, branching strategies, and version control best practices
• Integrate automation suites with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub Actions
• Publish automation reports and dashboards for stakeholders

Requirements

• 9 to 14 years of experience in IT
• Knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming principles including classes and objects, inheritance, polymorphism, encapsulation, and abstraction
• Expertise in API authentication and authorization mechanisms including Basic Authentication, Bearer Tokens, OAuth, and NTLM
• Proficiency in software design patterns including Singleton, Factory, Decorator, Page Object Model, and Page Factory
• Familiarity with static code analysis and quality gates configuration
• Background in generating and utilizing embeddings for semantic search applications
• Understanding of similarity search and retrieval mechanisms

Nice to have

• Understanding of Attention Mechanisms and Transformer-based model architectures