We are looking for a Lead Automation Test Engineer to shape scalable Java test automation, API validation, and CI/CD-driven quality across releases. You will architect frameworks, optimize parallel runs, and guide teams with strong engineering standards; apply today

Responsibilities

- Design scalable test automation frameworks in Java and keep them reliable over time

- Build robust UI automation solutions using Selenium

- Lead framework architecture choices to maximize scalability, maintainability, and reusability

- Implement parallel execution approaches and reduce execution time across browsers and platforms

- Develop reusable libraries, utilities, and framework extensions to speed up delivery

- Design and implement API automation for REST and SOAP services

- Validate XML and JSON payloads using serialization and deserialization methods

- Handle session management and execute API integration testing scenarios

- Conduct code reviews and enforce clean coding standards across the team

- Establish coding standards, branching strategies, and version control best practices

- Integrate automation suites with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub Actions





- Configure static code analysis and quality gates, and publish automation reports and dashboards for stakeholders

Requirements

- Extensive qualified experience in IT, typically 9–14 years

- Expert-level Java skills with solid Object-Oriented Programming principles (Classes and Objects, Inheritance, Polymorphism, Encapsulation, Abstraction)

- Hands-on proficiency with Selenium, API test automation, and CI/CD integration

- Working knowledge of authentication and authorization approaches such as Basic Authentication, Bearer Tokens, OAuth, and NTLM

- Solid background in software design patterns including Singleton, Factory, Decorator, Page Object Model (POM), and Page Factory

- Proven track record using Jenkins and GitHub Actions to integrate and run CI/CD pipelines

- Practical experience generating and using embeddings for semantic search applications

- Deep understanding of similarity search and retrieval mechanisms

Nice to have

- Familiarity with Transformer Architecture, Attention Mechanisms, and Transformer-based model architectures

📌 Lead Automation Test Engineer - Java with Playwright (Coimbatore)
🏢 EPAM Systems
📍 Coimbatore