Job Summary

We are seeking a Senior Test Engineer with extensive experience in automation and platform quality to develop scalable test automation frameworks and ensure the reliability, performance, and quality of enterprise-level distributed systems. The role focuses on automation, CI/CD-integrated testing, performance validation, system reliability, and quality governance across frontend, backend, APIs, and enterprise platforms.

Key Responsibilities
Design and implement scalable automated testing frameworks across UI, API, and backend layers. Establish and maintain CI/CD-integrated test pipelines for continuous validation and rapid feedback.
Define automation standards, testing best practices, and test data management strategies.
Own and enhance regression, integration, and end-to-end automation test suites.
Ensure reliability of distributed systems, APIs, microservices, and asynchronous workflows.
Perform performance, scalability, resilience, security, compliance, and audit validation testing.




Conduct defect root-cause analysis and drive continuous quality improvements.
Collaborate with engineering teams to promote shift-left testing practices.
Define quality KPIs, test coverage benchmarks, and release readiness criteria.
Validate observability and monitoring capabilities as part of release cycles
Act as the quality gatekeeper before production deployments and contribute to long-term quality engineering initiatives.

Required Qualifications

Must Have
7+ years of software testing experience with a solid focus on test automation.
Hands-on expertise with automation tools/frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, and REST Assured.
Experience with performance testing tools such as JMeter, k6, or Gatling.
Robust understanding of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps-integrated testing practices.
Proficiency in Python, Java, or similar programming languages.
Robust debugging, troubleshooting, and system analysis skills.

Preferred / Addi

📌 Senior Test Engineer Chennai
🏢 Ilink Talent Solutions
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