Lead Java Automation Test Engineer

EPAM Systems, Inc.; Chennai District; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 5,000,000; Full time

Job summary

EPAM Systems, Inc. in Chennai, India, seeks a Lead Java Automation Test Engineer to design, develop, and maintain scalable test automation frameworks using Java. You will build robust automation solutions with Selenium and lead parallel execution across browsers to boost efficiency.

You will develop reusable libraries, implement API automation for REST and SOAP, validate payloads, manage sessions, and drive code quality and CI/CD integration with Jenkins and GitHub Actions.

Qualifications

• 9–14 years of experience in IT.
• Expertise in Object-Oriented Programming principles including classes and objects, inheritance, polymorphism, encapsulation, and abstraction.
• Proficiency in API authentication and authorization mechanisms including Basic Authentication, Bearer Tokens, OAuth, and NTLM.
• Proficiency in design patterns including Singleton, Factory, Decorator, Page Object Model, and Page Factory.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, enhance, and maintain scalable test automation frameworks using Java.
• Build robust automation solutions using Selenium.
• Lead framework architecture decisions focused on scalability, maintainability, and reusability.
• Implement parallel execution strategies and optimize execution times across browsers and platforms.
• Develop reusable libraries, utilities, and framework extensions.
• Design and implement API automation solutions for REST and SOAP services.
• Validate XML and JSON payloads through serialization and deserialization techniques.
• Handle session management and API integration testing.
• Conduct code reviews and enforce clean coding standards.
• Establish and govern coding standards, branching strategies, and version control best practices.
• Integrate automation suites with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub Actions.
• Publish automation reports and dashboards for stakeholders.

Skills

Java

Selenium

API automation

CI/CD

POM / Page Object Model

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Selenium WebDriver

SonarQube

Job description

Lead Java Automation Test Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, enhance, and maintain scalable test automation frameworks using Java
• Build robust automation solutions using Selenium
• Lead framework architecture decisions focused on scalability, maintainability, and reusability
• Implement parallel execution strategies and optimize execution times across browsers and platforms
• Develop reusable libraries, utilities, and framework extensions
• Design and implement API automation solutions for REST and SOAP services
• Validate XML and JSON payloads through serialization and deserialization techniques
• Handle session management and API integration testing
• Conduct code reviews and enforce clean coding standards
• Establish and govern coding standards, branching strategies, and version control best practices
• Integrate automation suites with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub Actions
• Publish automation reports and dashboards for stakeholders

Requirements

• 9 to 14 years of experience in IT
• Knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming principles including classes and objects, inheritance, polymorphism, encapsulation, and abstraction
• Expertise in API authentication and authorization mechanisms including Basic Authentication, Bearer Tokens, OAuth, and NTLM
• Proficiency in software design patterns including Singleton, Factory, Decorator, Page Object Model, and Page Factory
• Familiarity with static code analysis and quality gates configuration
• Background in generating and utilizing embeddings for semantic search applications
• Understanding of similarity search and retrieval mechanisms
• Nice to have Understanding of Attention Mechanisms and Transformer-based model architectures