Automation Test Engineer

Job Summary

• We are looking for a skilled and passionate Automation Test Engineer with 3-5 years of experience in test automation, API testing, and quality engineering. The ideal candidate will be responsible for building and maintaining scalable automation frameworks, improving test coverage, ensuring high-quality software releases, and driving automation initiatives across UI, API, and performance testing domains.
• The candidate should possess strong expertise in Playwright, TypeScript, Cucumber BDD, API Automation, Jenkins, GitLab, and JMeter, along with a quality-first mindset and a proactive approach to continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable UI automation frameworks and test scripts using Playwright, TypeScript, and Cucumber BDD to ensure reliable and maintainable test coverage.
• Design and implement CI/CD automation pipelines in Jenkins, integrating UI and API automation suites to enable continuous testing and faster feedback during releases.
• Develop, maintain, and execute API automation test suites to validate functionality, integrations, data integrity, and overall system reliability.
• Utilize GitLab for source control management, code reviews, and adherence to established branching and release management strategies.
• Leverage GitHub Copilot and AI-assisted tools/agents to improve automation development efficiency, script quality, and test coverage.
• Perform sanity, functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end testing to validate application quality across releases and environments.
• Create, review, and maintain test cases, test scenarios, test data, and test documentation, ensuring complete coverage of business, functional, and non-functional requirements.
• Create and maintain test datasets required for testing activities and implement dynamic test data generation approaches within automation frameworks to reduce maintenance effort and improve script reliability.
• Monitor daily automation executions, analyse test reports, investigate failures, identify defects or script issues, and track them through resolution and closure.
• Participate in automation script reviews and ensure adherence to coding standards, framework guidelines, and test automation best practices.
• Identify flaky automation scripts, perform root cause analysis, and implement improvements to enhance automation reliability and stability.
• Analyse defects and production issues and add corresponding scenarios to the regression suite to minimize defect leakage and improve overall product quality.
• Track automation coverage, execution trends, and quality metrics, and provide recommendations to improve automation effectiveness and test efficiency.
• Design, develop, and execute performance test scripts using JMeter, analyse performance reports, identify bottlenecks, and provide recommendations for system optimization.
• Write and execute SQL queries to validate backend data, verify data integrity across systems, and support functional, API, and end-to-end testing activities.

Required Technical Skills

• Playwright with TypeScript
• Cucumber BDD Framework
• API Testing & Automation
• Postman
• Jenkins
• GitLab
• CI/CD Pipeline Implementation
• Performance Testing using Apache JMeter
• GitHub Copilot and AI Agent Development/Usage
• Jira, TestRail or similar Test Management Tools
• Automation Framework Design and Development