- We are looking for a skilled QA Automation Engineer to design, develop, and maintain robust automated testing frameworks across UI, API, performance, and security layers.
- The ideal candidate will play a key role in ensuring high-quality, scalable, and secure software releases through end-to-end test automation.
- This role offers an prospect to work on scalable, real-world systems, with ownership of test automation and overall quality processes.
- You will collaborate closely with engineering, DevOps, and product teams in a collaborative engineering culture.
- The candidate should have hands-on experience in defining test strategies, building regression automation suites, performing UI and API automation, executing performance tests, and conducting API interception/intrusion testing for security validation.

Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain automation frameworks for:
- UI testing (Selenium, Playwright)
- API test automation (Postman, REST tools)
- Regression test automation
- Implement parameterized and data-driven testing approaches.




- Define and own the overall test strategy, including test planning, coverage, and execution.
- Good to have: Integrate automated test suites with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins or other build pipelines.
- Perform API automation testing and validation, including request/response verification, schema validation, and negative testing using scripting - Java, Python, Javascript.
- Conduct performance and load testing using JMeter or similar tools.
- Perform API intercept/intrude to identify security vulnerabilities (auth issues, rate limiting, data exposure, payload manipulation etc.).
- Execute end-to-end automated regression suites for each release.
- Analyze test results, identify root causes, and collaborate with developers to resolve defects.
- Ensure test automation best practices, maintainability, and scalability.
- Participate in release readiness, quality metrics, and continuous improvement initiatives.

📌 Automation Test Engineer (Chennai)
🏢 Sekel Tech
📍 Chennai