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 cooperative 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.
Positive 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 (India)
🏢 Sekel Tech
📍 India