Note:

Years of Experience - 5 to 10 Years

Job Location - Chennai or Bangalore

Notice Period - Immediate to 15 days only

Final Level discussion Face to Face Mandatory

Requirements for the candidate

Required Skills

- 5+ years of experience in software testing and test automation.
- Strong hands-on experience with Playwright and TypeScript.
- Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript.
- Experience bringing an existing automation framework to maturity.
- Strong understanding of test automation framework design patterns: Page Object Model, dependency injection, API-first test setup.
- API and REST test automation written in code within the test framework.
- Positive understanding of SQL and database validation.
- Knowledge of CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps or Jenkins.
- Experience with version control systems, Git in particular.
- Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies.

Preferred Skills

- Protobuf exposure, and message-broker testing with MQTT.
- Knowledge of containerisation technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Data migration testing.
- Exposure to cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS or GCP.
- Experience with BDD frameworks such as Cucumber.

AI-Enabled Testing

- Use AI-assisted tools to speed up test creation, regression analysis, and defect identification.




- Promote responsible and governed use of AI within test automation practices.

Candidate responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

- Develop and maintain automated test scripts within an existing Playwright and TypeScript framework.
- Build API-level regression tests and validate backend services, including database state checks.
- Extend coverage to UI user journeys across the Angular web and Electron desktop surfaces.
- Build and maintain dual-environment parity tests, asserting the modernised path against the captured legacy baseline.
- Collaborate closely with developers, product owners and the clients QA engineers to understand requirements and ensure quality deliverables.
- Keep automated suites running reliably in CI so they can gate merges.
- Analyse test results, triage failures before re-running them, identify defects and work with the owning development teams to resolve them.
- Improve test coverage, execution efficiency and overall product quality.
- Participate in code reviews and promote automation best practices.
- Participate in the team’s Agile ceremonies: planning, backlog grooming, reviews and retrospectives.
- Prepare test reports, metrics and in-repo documentation.

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🏢 Grid Dynamics
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