Job Description:
Senior Automation Test Engineer – UI & API Automation
Job Profile Summary
We are seeking a Senior Automation Test Engineer – UI & API Automation with strong hands-on experience in designing, developing, and maintaining automation solutions for enterprise applications. This role combines deep UI automation expertise with strong API testing and API automation capability
The Senior Automation Test Engineer will define and execute automation test strategies, build robust frameworks using Playwright and JavaScript/TypeScript or Java, integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines, and collaborate closely with Product Owners, developers, Lead Engineers, and QA partners to ensure requirement clarity, end-to-end test coverage, and defect prevention.
Key Skills
UI automation: Robust hands-on experience with Playwright as the preferred tool, with Selenium as a plus.
API testing and automation: Strong experience with REST API testing using RestAssured, Postman, Newman, and Java or JavaScript/TypeScript based API automation.
Framework design:



Ability to design and enhance scalable automation frameworks using hybrid, keyword-driven, data-driven, BDD, and Page Object Model approaches.
Programming: Strong coding proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and/or Java with an automation-first engineering mindset.
End-to-end testing: Ability to connect UI, API, integration, regression, smoke, and functional test coverage across application flows.
CI/CD and DevOps: Experience with Jenkins, Git, pipelines, test reporting, debugging tools, and continuous testing practices.
Quality engineering fundamentals: Strong understanding of SDLC, STLC, Agile/Scrum, quality gates, defect prevention, and test coverage strategy.
Cloud and infrastructure: Working knowledge of AWS or cloud-based device/browser farms such as BrowserStack.
AI-assisted testing: Ability to use tools such as GitHub Copilot, Playwright AI-assisted locators, and test generators to accelerate script creation, refactoring

📌 Senior Engineer (Chennai)
🏢 Guardian Life Insurance
📍 Chennai