We are seeking a Lead Automation Test Engineer with robust expertise in Java-based test automation frameworks, API testing, and CI/CD integration. The ideal candidate will design scalable automation solutions, drive quality engineering practices, and mentor teams to accelerate software testing and delivery.

Responsibilities

- Design, develop, enhance, and maintain scalable test automation frameworks using Java
- Build robust automation solutions using Selenium
- Lead framework architecture decisions focused on scalability, maintainability, and reusability
- Implement parallel execution strategies and optimize execution times across browsers and platforms
- Develop reusable libraries, utilities, and framework extensions
- Design and implement API automation solutions for REST and SOAP services
- Validate XML and JSON payloads through serialization and deserialization techniques
- Handle session management and API integration testing
- Conduct code reviews and enforce clean coding standards
- Establish and govern coding standards, branching strategies, and version control best practices




- Integrate automation suites with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub Actions
- Configure static code analysis and quality gates, and publish automation reports and dashboards for stakeholders

Requirements

- 9 to 14 years of experience in IT
- Expertise in Java, Object-Oriented Programming principles (Classes and Objects, Inheritance, Polymorphism, Encapsulation, Abstraction)
- Proficiency in Selenium, API test automation, and CI/CD integration
- Knowledge of authentication and authorization mechanisms including Basic Authentication, Bearer Tokens, OAuth, and NTLM
- Familiarity with software design patterns including Singleton, Factory, Decorator, Page Object Model (POM), and Page Factory
- Competency in Jenkins and GitHub Actions for CI/CD pipeline integration
- Background in generating and utilizing embeddings for semantic search applications
- Understanding of similarity search and retrieval mechanisms

Nice to have

- Understanding of Transformer Architecture, Attention Mechanisms, and Transformer-based model architectures

📌 Lead Automation Test Engineer - Java with Playwright (Bengaluru)
🏢 EPAM Systems
📍 Bengaluru