Senior Test Automation Engineer

Job Summary:

Experienced Test Automation Engineer with 5+ years of expertise in Software Quality Engineering, Automation Testing, and Enterprise Application Testing. Skilled in designing scalable automation frameworks, developing reusable test assets, and ensuring high-quality software releases across the SDLC. Proficient in collaborating with cross-functional teams, driving test strategy, continuous quality improvement, and leveraging AI-powered tools to enhance testing productivity and validate AI-enabled application features

Role & responsibilities:

• Design, develop and maintain reusable automated test frameworks, components and
• regression suites following industry best practices.
• Develop and maintain UI automation using Selenium, Playwright or similar frameworks.
• Develop API automation using Postman, Rest Assured, SoapUI or similar tools.
• Review business requirements, technical specifications and solution designs to define
• comprehensive test strategies and test cases.
• Identify quality risks, testability concerns and areas requiring additional test coverage.
• Execute functional, integration, regression, negative, exploratory and end-to-end testing.
• Test AI-powered features for functional accuracy, reliability, edge cases, response
• consistency and failure handling.
• Troubleshoot defects, perform root cause analysis and recommend appropriate solutions
• or workarounds.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions or similar
• tools.
• Produce quality metrics including test coverage, defect reports, release readiness and
• execution status.
• Collaborate closely with development, DevOps and project teams to ensure quality
• throughout the Software Development Lifecycle.
• Support release validation, regression testing and production defect verification.
• Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, estimation and release planning.
• Review automation code, mentor junior engineers and promote engineering best
• practices.
• Continuously improve automation frameworks, testing processes and overall engineering
• quality.
• Experience using AI tools such as GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Cursor or similar tools to improve engineering productivity.

Required Candidate Profile:

• 5+ years of experience in Software Testing, Test Automation, and Quality Engineering across enterprise applications, with exposure to the complete SDLC.
• Strong proficiency in Java, Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), and developing scalable, reusable automation frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with UI automation using Selenium, Playwright, and testing frameworks such as Cucumber, JUnit, and TestNG.
• Expertise in API automation and REST API testing using Postman, RestAssured, and similar tools.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Jenkins, Maven, Gradle, Git, and modern version control practices.
• Good knowledge of SQL, relational databases, basic NoSQL concepts, Linux/Unix/Windows environments, and exposure to AWS or other cloud platforms.
• Strong troubleshooting, debugging, root cause analysis, and ability to write clean, maintainable, and reusable automation code.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams with excellent analytical, estimation, problem-solving, ownership, and communication skills. Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.

Good to have

• Performance testing using JMeter, Gatling or k6.
• Experience with SonarQube or other code quality tools.
• Docker and Kubernetes exposure.
• JavaScript, HTML, CSS or frontend technology knowledge.
• Experience deploying applications in cloud environments.
• Experience testing enterprise SaaS products.
• Insurance or Financial Services domain experience.
• Experience leading automation initiatives or mentoring junior engineers**.**