We are seeking a skilled and motivated Automation Engineer responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining comprehensive automated testing frameworks. The role focuses on developing and executing automated tests, identifying automation opportunities, and ensuring high-quality software delivery through robust automation strategies.

The Automation

Engineer will work closely with development teams and stakeholders to proactively identify and resolve issues while continuously optimizing testing processes.

RESPONSIBILITIES

- Design, develop, and maintain scalable and reusable test automation frameworks.
- Develop and execute automated test scripts for UI and API testing.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and provide testing support.
- Create and execute test cases for REST services to validate system functionality.
- Apply robust QA principles and logical/analytical thinking to identify edge cases, negative scenarios, boundary conditions, and potential product risks.
- Review requirements from a QA perspective, proactively identify gaps, ambiguities, dependencies, and potential quality risks, and raise clarifications with relevant stakeholders.
- Design effective test scenarios and test cases covering both expected and unexpected system behavior, ensuring meaningful test coverage beyond happy-path scenarios.
- Identify and implement new automation opportunities to improve test coverage and efficiency.
- Create and maintain comprehensive test documentation, including test cases,



checklists, and test plans.
- Stay up to date with new testing approaches, tools, and test strategies.
- Integrate automation frameworks with CI/CD pipelines for continuous testing.
- Evaluate and perform Proof of Concept (PoC) with new tools and frameworks when required.

SKILLS & REQUIREMENTS

- 0-3 years of experience in software testing and test automation using Java.
- Good understanding of QA methodologies, STLC, testing concepts, and best practices.
- Good analytical, logical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
- Hands-on experience in UI automation using Selenium WebDriver with Java.
- Good understanding of Java programming concepts, including OOP, collections, exception handling, and reusable code.
- Experience with test automation frameworks such as TestNG or JUnit.
- Understanding of automation framework structure and maintenance.
- Good knowledge of API testing, preferably using Rest-Assured.
- Understanding of REST APIs, HTTP methods, status codes, JSON, and request/response validation.
- Basic knowledge of database concepts and data validation techniques.
- Exposure to Git or other distributed version control systems.
- Exposure to integrating automation tests with CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins or GitLab.
- Knowledge of test/defect management tools such as Jira, Xray, Zephyr, or similar.
- Basic knowledge of AWS Cloud and Docker is a plus.
- Exposure to performance testing tools such as JMeter or Gatling is a plus.

📌 Automation Engineer (Chennai)
🏢 ADF Data Science
📍 Chennai