We are seeking a Senior Automation Test Engineer - Java with Playwright to 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




Publish automation reports and dashboards for stakeholders

Requirements

6 to 9 years of experience in test automation
Expertise in Java automation frameworks, API testing, and CI/CD integration
Proficiency in Object-Oriented Programming principles, including classes and objects, inheritance, polymorphism, encapsulation, and abstraction
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, and Page Factory
Skills in static code analysis and quality gates configuration
Background in generating and utilizing embeddings for semantic search applications
Understanding of similarity search and retrieval mechanisms

Nice to have

Understanding of Attention Mechanisms and Transformer-based model architectures

📌 Senior Automation Test Engineer (Chennai)
🏢 EPAM Systems
📍 Chennai