Senior Software Test Automation Engineer

Role : Senior Software Test Automation Engineer

Professional Experience: 6 – 9 yrs. of Industry experience

Remit

• Execute test planning activities, support test environment readiness, execution, and ongoing progress reporting (in collaboration with lead/manager).
• Coordinate closely with testers and support the transition of manual test scenarios into the automation suite.
• Provide continuous support for both manual and automated testing initiatives, including effort estimation and workload coordination as needed.
• Participate in requirements elicitation and analysis from a QA/testing standpoint; challenge and clarify requirements to ensure testability.
• Operate primarily as an individual contributor with strong hands-on focus (automation/manual execution, framework improvements, defect validation) and support coordination/stakeholder updates when required.
• Participate in and contribute to code reviews / PR reviews for automation changes to ensure coding standards, test reliability, maintainability, and alignment with framework best practices.
• Accelerate automation delivery by leveraging AI-assisted development (e.g., GitHub Copilot), modern Playwright practices, and productivity techniques to improve speed and quality of test creation/maintenance.
• Support mentoring/upskilling of team members on effective and responsible AI usage for automation development, troubleshooting, and framework enhancements.
• Contribute to Proof of Concepts (POCs) to evaluate and adopt new automation tools/approaches (AI-assisted automation, Playwright enhancements), and provide recommendations based on outcomes.

Knowledge/skills and Experience:

• Requirements gathering/analysis in a QA role; challenge and clarify requirements to ensure testability.
• Strong understanding of client business workflows, technology needs, test tools, and integration touchpoints across interfacing systems.
• Strong command of QA best practices, test design techniques, and end-to-end testing methodology.
• Review project artifacts (functional requirements, unit/integration plans, etc.) to identify gaps and ensure complete coverage.
• Validate technical and user documentation for correctness, usability, and procedural accuracy.
• Translate functional/technical specs into reusable manual and automated test scripts for new features and enhancements.
• Plan and execute test cycles (smoke/sanity, functional, integration, regression) with high attention to detail.
• Strong OOP fundamentals with hands-on C#.NET/ Java development skills.
• UI automation with Selenium (C#/Java) and Playwright (TypeScript); API testing (validation + automation).
• Contribute to PR/code review practices for automation frameworks and suites; follow standards/quality gates and help reduce flakiness and maintenance overhead.
• Use AI tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot) for authoring, refactoring, debugging, Playwright fixes, and framework enhancements with strong review discipline.
• Working knowledge / exposure to agentic automation concepts (AI-assisted workflows, scaffolding, intelligent triage/self-healing patterns) to improve productivity and stability.
• Support mentoring engineers on effective and responsible AI usage (prompting practices, secure use, maintainability, and review expectations).
• Contribute to POCs/technical evaluations; document outcomes and recommend adoption based on quality impact, ROI, and delivery goals.

Key Performance measure

• Stable releases with measurable reduction in hotfixes, escaped defects, and defect re-open rate.
• Increased automation coverage of critical business flows (smoke + regression), with coverage growth tracked sprint-over-sprint / release-over-release.
• Reduced automation flakiness via proactive triage, root-cause analysis, and stabilization practices (robust sync/waits, test-data isolation, environment health checks, and controlled retry strategy where appropriate).
• Improved CI/CD signal-to-noise by sustaining a strong pass rate, minimizing false failures, and enabling faster pipeline feedback.
• Lower automation maintenance effort through better test design, higher reusability/modularization, and strong PR quality gates/coding standards.
• Higher automation throughput and improved cycle time using AI-assisted development and Playwright/framework optimizations.

Other Key Competencies:

• Strong verbal/written communication and presentation skills; customer-facing delivery and documentation experience.
• Self-driven and independent; balances ownership with execution detail.
• Effective in ambiguous environments with multiple priorities and stakeholders.
• Proven cross-functional collaboration (Sales, Support, Consulting, Product, Engineering).
• Strong analytical/problem-solving skills with a focus on practical, efficient solutions.
• Thrives on complex problem solving and continuous improvement/innovation.
• Performs well under pressure; manages customer expectations and tight timelines.
• Customer-focused, quality-first mindset with strong attention to detail.
• Strong documentation capability.
• Manual testing skills essential.

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