Job Title: Senior Associate
- Test Automation Notice Period: Immediate to 30 days Experience Required: 5+ Years Job

Location:
Pune/Hybrid About Accelirate Accelirate is a leading agentic AI and automation firm, building intelligent agents that transform enterprise operations. We’re a certified partner of UiPath, Microsoft, and Salesforce, with 1500+ processes automated annually across industries. Honored as a Top Workplaces USA winner five years in a row, we’re known for delivering scalable, agent-driven solutions that empower humans, agents, and robots to work smarter together.

About the role
We are looking for a hands-on Senior Test Automation Engineer to own Playwright + Python UI automation for our web applications. You will build maintainable pytest-based frameworks, run them in CI on Azure Pipelines, keep the suite fast and reliable, and mentor junior engineers. What you will do
• Design and extend a Playwright + Python framework on pytest, using Page Object Model, fixtures and reusable utilities.
• Automate end-to-end UI tests from user stories and acceptance criteria, across Chromium, Firefox and WebKit.
• Build stable locator strategies and keep the flaky-test rate under 2%.
• Integrate suites into Azure Pipelines with parallel runs (pytest-xdist) and helpful failure artifacts (traces, screenshots, videos).
• Track tests and defects in Azure Boards and Test Plans, linked to user stories for traceability.
• Triage failures daily and report coverage, pass rate, execution time and flakiness each sprint.




• Review peers' automation code and mentor 1–3 junior engineers. What you bring
• Playwright (Python): built or substantially extended a framework; strong with the sync/async APIs, auto-waiting, locators, browser contexts, network interception/mocking, auth via storage state, and Trace Viewer.
• Python: OOP, type hints, decorators, context managers, exception handling, virtual environments; clean, modular code checked with Ruff or Flake8 and Black.
• pytest: fixtures and scopes, conftest.py, markers, parametrization, pytest-playwright plugin, pytest-xdist, HTML/JUnit reporting.
• Azure DevOps and Git: Git in Azure Repos (branching, pull requests, code reviews, conflict resolution); YAML Pipelines, Boards and Test Plans; publishes test results to pipelines.
• Testing fundamentals: test pyramid, test design techniques, risk-based prioritisation, basic SQL, Agile/Scrum.
• Clear communication and ownership; can explain a failure to a developer and a risk to a product owner. Good to have
• API testing with Python (requests, httpx or Playwright's APIRequestContext).
• GitHub and GitHub Actions workflows.
• Migration from Selenium to Playwright.
• BDD with pytest-bdd or Behave.
• Docker, Azure cloud basics, Allure reporting.
• Visual regression and accessibility testing (axe-core).
• AI-assisted testing: GitHub Copilot, Playwright MCP.
• ISTQB certification. Education B.
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Tech/MCA in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.

📌 Senior Test Automation Engineer (Pune)
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