Description
The Role

As a Lead Automation Engineer, you will be responsible for automation and testing efforts within a software development team. This role involves quality assurance efforts and developing, implementing and maintaining automated test scripts and frameworks to ensure the highest quality standards are met for the software products. The individual will work closely with development and product teams to design efficient testing strategies, manage test execution and drive continuous improvement in the automation process. You will also be responsible for mentoring the team and recommend the best practices for automation.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

· Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field required

· 5+ years’ experience in Test Automation using Java and Java Script for both UI & Services tiers.

· Prior experience working on Trading or Financial Services Domain

· Own Test Strategy for given system and lead the Certification and Automation efforts

· Ability to understand and certify core application at a functional level





· Solid experience writing comprehensive test scenarios, test cases and test plans to align with business requirement.

· API testing experience is must

· Experience in test automation using an established frameworks like Cucumber, Rest Assured

· Experience with automated testing tools such as Playwright , Selenium, JUnit, TestNG

· Experience with automated testing tools such as Insomnia, Cypress, Karate is a plus

· Exposure to BDD

· Exposure to ATDD

· Experience with SQL and ability to write queries for test validation and reviewing data.

· Participate in engineering practices such as code and design reviews to build awareness in teams of key scenarios to be considered.

· Familiarity with version control systems like Git.

· Experience with using Jenkins CI/CD

· Ability to adapt to recent environments and learn in-house developed tools and practices.

· Experience certifying applications against docume

📌 Lead Automation Engineer (India)
🏢 Photon Group
📍 India