CHENNAI · FULLTIME
Automation Test Engineer

Sekel Technologies
Chennai · onsite · Posted 13d ago
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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 opportunity 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.
- 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)
- 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.
Experience: 3-5yr
Education: Any Graduate in Engineer, BCA , BSC or related Field
Skills: QA Automation Engineer Automation Testing Selenium Playwright API Testing API Automation PostmanPython Java JavaScript Java Selinium, Python , Playwright, Postman
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Sekel Technologies
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2016
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