Location - Chennai Tamil Nadu

Experience - 3-5 years

We are looking for a skilled QA Automation Engineer to design, develop, and maintain robust automated testing frameworks across UI, API, performance, and security layers. The ideal candidate will play a key role in ensuring high-quality, scalable, and secure software releases through end-to-end test automation.This role offers an prospect to work on scalable, real-world systems, with ownership of test automation and overall quality processes. You will collaborate closely with engineering, DevOps, and product teams in a collaborative engineering culture.The candidate should have hands-on experience in defining test strategies, building regression automation suites, performing UI and API automation, executing performance tests, and conducting API interception/intrusion testing for security validation.

Key Responsibilities

● Design, develop, and maintain automation frameworks for:

○ UI testing (Selenium, Playwright)

○ API test automation (Postman, REST tools)

○ Regression test automation

● Implement parameterized and data-driven testing approaches.

● Define and own the overall test strategy, including test planning, coverage, and execution.

● Good to have: Integrate automated test suites with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins or other build pipelines.

● Perform API automation testing and validation, including request/response verification, schema validation, and negative testing using scripting - Java, Python, Javascript.

● Conduct performance and load testing using JMeter or similar tools.





● Perform API intercept/intrude to identify security vulnerabilities (auth issues, rate limiting, data exposure, payload manipulation etc.).

● Execute end-to-end automated regression suites for each release.

● Analyze test results, identify root causes, and collaborate with developers to resolve defects.

● Ensure test automation best practices, maintainability, and scalability.

● Participate in release readiness, quality metrics, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Required Skills & Qualifications

● Strong experience with automation tools:

○ Selenium and/or Playwright for UI automation using scripting

○ Postman or similar API testing tools

● Experience with performance testing tools such as JMeter.

● Solid understanding of API automation frameworks (RESTful services, JSON, with all HTTP methods).

● Expertise in regression testing and test suite maintenance.

● Experience with parameterized/data-driven testing techniques.

● Knowledge of security testing concepts, including API interception, intrusion testing, and vulnerability detection.

● Good understanding of test strategy, test planning, and quality assurance processes.

● Familiarity with version control systems (Git)

Good to Have

● Experience with containerized or any cloud-based environments.

● Experience in CICD pipeline - Jenkins/ Bitbucket or any other tools

● Knowledge of OWASP Top 10 and basic security testing tools like ZAP.

● Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.

Pay: ₹500,000.00 - ₹650,000.00 per year

Benefits

- Provident Fund

Work Location: In person

📌 Automation Test Engineer (Chennai)
🏢 Sekel Tech
📍 Chennai