We are looking for an experienced Senior QA Automation & AI Testing Engineer to transform our current manual QA process into a modern, automation-first, CI/CD-integrated and AI-assisted quality engineering function. The successful candidate will be responsible not merely for writing automated test scripts, but for re-engineering the entire testing lifecycle from requirements analysis and test design through automated execution, defect management, reporting and release quality gates.

The requirements include AI-assisted test design, automated test generation, automated execution, CI/CD, intelligent failure analysis, reporting and release quality gate.

The person hired for this role will be expected to design and implement this transformation.

Job Specification

1. QA Process Transformation

- Assess the existing QA/testing process and identify inefficiencies, duplication and gaps.
- Define and implement a modern Quality Engineering / Automation-first QA strategy.
- Establish appropriate testing levels including:
- Unit testing
- API testing
- Integration testing
- UI testing
- Regression testing
- Smoke testing
- Performance testing
- Security testing
- Compatibility testing
- End-to-end testing
- Define what should be automated versus what should remain manual.
- Establish appropriate automation coverage and quality KPIs.
- Introduce risk-based and requirements-based testing rather than simply executing large numbers of test cases.

2. Test Automation Architecture

Design and implement scalable automation frameworks for web, mobile and API-based applications. Evaluate and select appropriate up-to-date frameworks/tools such as:
- Playwright
- Cypress
- Selenium
- Appium
- REST Assured
- PyTest
- Jest
- Postman/Newman




- Cucumber/BDD where appropriate

The candidate should be capable of selecting the right tool for the problem, rather than being tied to a particular framework.

Responsibilities include:

- Developing reusable automation frameworks.
- Creating Page Object / Screen Object / component-based architectures where appropriate.
- Building reusable test utilities and libraries.
- Managing test data.
- Supporting parallel execution.
- Implementing reliable synchronization and wait strategies.
- Reducing flaky tests.
- Maintaining automation code as part of the software engineering lifecycle.

3. API & Backend Test Automation

Build a strong API/backend testing capability rather than depending primarily on UI automation.

Experience should include

- REST APIs
- JSON/XML
- Authentication and authorization
- Database validation
- API contract testing
- Microservices testing
- Message queues/events where applicable
- Mocking and service virtualization

4. CI/CD & Continuous Testing

Integrate automated testing into the development pipeline. Hands-on experience with tools such as:
- Jenkins
- GitHub Actions
- GitLab CI/CD
- Azure DevOps
- Docker
- Kubernetes where applicable

The candidate should be able to design pipelines such as: Developer Commit Build Unit Tests API Tests Integration Tests UI Smoke Tests Regression Tests Test Report Quality Gate Deployment

Automated tests should be capable of running:

- On every build/commit where appropriate
- On pull requests
- Nightly
- Before releases
- On-demand

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📌 Exploratory testing Professional (Chennai)
🏢 ARMIA SYSTEMS
📍 Chennai