Senior Automation Engineer (SDET)

About The Role We’re looking for a hands-on Senior SDET who can design, build, and maintain reliable test automation across Web, API, and Mobile. Develop tools and platform for QA as a service.

Develop ideas using AI technology to improve productivity and efficiency, and to solve complex problems. You’ll partner with product and engineering to automate in-sprint stories, harden our regression packs, and drive quality gates in CI/CD. This is a problem-solving role—own the outcome, not just the scripts.

What You’ll Do

- Design and implement end-to-end automated tests for Web (Cypress/TypeScript), API (Postman/Newman or REST Assured), and Mobile (Appium + Java).
- Automate in-sprint stories; check code in with the feature and keep suites green as the product evolves.
- Build stable locators and sync strategies (test-ids, accessibility ids, network stubbing, explicit waits—not sleeps).
- Create reusable libraries, fixtures, data factories, and API seeding utilities for deterministic test data.
- Introduce and enforce coding standards (linting, formatting, PR checks, code review).
- Own CI pipelines for tests (Jenkins/GitLab): parallelization, artifacts, flaky test quarantine, dashboards.
- Build readable reports (Allure/HTML/JUnit) and publish run health (pass rate, duration, flake trend).
- Collaborate closely with developers and QA to triage failures, file high-quality bugs, and close the loop.
- Contribute to contract testing/mocks for faster feedback where appropriate.
- Mentor juniors on test design, debugging, and framework usage.

Must-have Skills

- 4–6 years in test automation with recent, deep hands-on experience.
- Web UI: Cypress with JavaScript(custom commands, fixtures, cy.intercept, page objects/screenplay).
- API: Postman (pre/post-request scripts, environments, Newman in CI) or REST Assured (Java) with schema/contract checks.
- Mobile: Appium with Java,



strong locator strategy (accessibilityId, iOS predicate, UIAutomator).
- Solid testing fundamentals: boundary/negative cases, data setup/teardown, assertions, flake prevention.
- CI/CD: Jenkins or GitLab CI, artifacting reports, parallel sharding, workplace variables/secrets.
- Git workflows: branching, PRs, code reviews, merge conflict handling.
- Strong debugging across layers (network, console/logs, device logs) and root-cause analysis.
- Fintech/business-critical systems exposure (security/privacy awareness, idempotency, auditability).

Preferred Skills

- Productivity Using AI: AI tools like copilots, GHCP/Cursor/Kiro, Copilots, A2A, MCP, ACP to enhance the productivity.

Nice to have

- Contract testing (Pact), test containers, lightweight stubs/mocks.
- Xray/Jira traceability, test analytics dashboards.
- Basics of performance profiling for UI/API (e.g., Lighthouse/API timing).
- Experience with accessibility testing and internationalization.
- Docker basics for spinning up dependent services locally.

What Success Looks Like (first 90 Days)

- Automate and merge in-sprint stories alongside dev delivery; keep the pipeline green.
- Stabilize a flaky area (≤2% reruns) and reduce suite time via parallelization/sharding.
- Introduce/extend data-cy/accessibilityId coverage and document the locator strategy.
- Ship a small utility (data seeding, API client, or reporting enhancer) adopted by the team.

Tools you’ll use here Cypress/Selenium/Playright, Appium (Java), Postman/Newman or REST Assured, Jenkins/GitLab CI, Allure/JUnit/HTML reports, Git, Jira/Xray, Sonar(quality gates), Docker, GHCP/Kiro/Cursor, Copilots and ollama. Location & working model Bengaluru (hybrid). Occasional evening collaboration with distributed teams.

Keywords (for sourcing) Cypress, TypeScript, Postman, Newman, REST Assured, Appium, Java, Android, iOS, Jenkins, GitLab CI, API automation, Web UI automation, Mobile test automation, Flaky test triage, Test data management, Xray, Jira, Allure, Fintech

📌 Quality Assurance Lead (Bengaluru)
🏢 Comviva
📍 Bengaluru