Senior Automation Tester

Overview

Senior Automation Tester responsible for ensuring the quality, reliability, and performance of digital products through robust test automation strategies, integrated into CI/CD pipelines and delivered alongside multi-functional teams.

What you'll do

• Define and implement automation testing strategies across web, API, mobile, and backend applications.
• Design scalable, maintainable, and reusable automation frameworks.
• Drive automation coverage across functional, regression, integration, end-to-end, and smoke testing.
• Review business requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Develop automated test scripts using industry-standard frameworks and tools.
• Implement automated and manual tests where required.
• Analyze test results and report defects with detailed root cause analysis.
• Integrate automated tests into Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or equivalent CI/CD pipelines.
• Define and maintain quality gates for deployments.
• Support shift-left testing practices and continuous testing.
• Work closely with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Developers, Architects, and DevOps engineers.
• Mentor junior testers and automation engineers.
• Promote quality engineering best practices across teams.
• Participate in code reviews and test automation design reviews.
• Supervise and improve test execution stability.
• Maintain test environments and test data.
• Track automation metrics, defect trends, and quality KPIs.
• Continuously improve framework performance and maintainability.

What you'll need

• 6+ years of validated experience in software testing, with at least 4+ years in automation.
• Strong experience with Selenium WebDriver / Playwright / Cypress.
• Strong experience with Java, C#, Python, or TypeScript.
• Strong experience with TestNG, JUnit, NUnit, or equivalent frameworks.
• Strong experience with BDD frameworks such as Cucumber/Gherkin.
• Strong experience with API testing using Postman, Rest Assured, Karate, or similar tools.
• Experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub, Jenkins, or CI/CD platforms.
• Strong understanding of Agile and Scrum practices.
• SQL and database validation skills.

Nice to have

• Cloud experience (AWS or Azure).
• Containerization knowledge (Docker/Kubernetes).
• Performance testing exposure (JMeter, LoadRunner, k6).
• Security testing awareness.
• Experience with microservices and event-driven architectures.
• ISTQB certification.

Details

• Location: Pune, India.
• Employment type: full time (flexible working arrangements may be considered).
• No travel is expected with this role.
• Eligible for relocation within country.
• Not available for remote working.