Senior Test Specialist

Experience: Not Available to Not Available years

Location: Chennai, India

Skills: Python, Playwright, Cypress, BDD, Cucumber, Behave, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Postman, RestAssured, Karate, Jira, TestRail, Confluence, Docker, Kubernetes

Job Summary
To design, execute, and optimize testing strategies, mentor junior team members, and advocate for best practices across the development lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities
• Architect and develop a scalable, maintainable automation framework for Web and Cloud applications using Python / Playwright / Cypress / similar tools.
• Establish best practices for functional, regression, integration, and system testing.
• Implement shift-left testing practices, ensuring quality is built into every stage of development.
• Drive risk-based testing and define entry/exit criteria for test phases.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Dev, Product, DevOps, Regulatory) to ensure quality goals are met.
• Implement BDD frameworks (e.g., Cucumber, Behave) to enhance collaboration and test readability.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps).
• Ensure test coverage across UI, API, and backend services.




• Design and execute API test automation using tools like Postman, RestAssured, or Karate.
• Drive tool and process adoption for defect management, version control, and documentation (e.g., Jira, TestRail, Confluence).

Desired Skills
• Experience with containerized testing environments (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with test data management for large video or image datasets.

Key Responsibilities
1. To design and implement test plans for complex features and modules.
2. To utilize automation tools and frameworks to increase test efficiency, proactively advocate for timely fixes and quality assurance best practices.
3. To identify, reproduce, and document software defects according to established procedures.
4. To proactively partner with developers to analyze, prioritize, and verify defect resolutions, while actively participating in test reviews to drive continuous improvement and best practice sharing.
5. To stay up-to-date with the latest testing technology trends, contribute to the creation and maintenance of test automation frameworks/libraries and proactively implement creative testing approaches to address evolving software complexities.

Skill Requirements
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📌 Senior Test Specialist (Chennai)
🏢 HCL Technologies
📍 Chennai