Lead Java Automation Test Engineer

EPAM Systems; Coimbatore District; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

EPAM Systems in India seeks a Lead Java Automation Test Engineer to design scalable automation frameworks using Java and Selenium, drive API testing, and integrate tests with CI/CD pipelines. You will mentor teams, define architecture decisions, and publish actionable reports for stakeholders.

The role emphasizes parallel execution across browsers, robust libraries, and quality gates for maintainable test suites, with opportunities to influence engineering practices and delivery cycles.

Qualifications

• Experience in Java test automation and API testing.
• Hands-on CI/CD integration experience with modern pipelines.
• Experience mentoring teams and driving quality engineering practices.

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

Automation frameworks

API testing

CI/CD

Selenium

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Tools

Selenium

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Job description

We are seeking a Lead Java Automation Test Engineer with strong expertise in Java automation frameworks, API testing, and CI/CD integration to design scalable automation solutions, drive quality engineering practices, and mentor teams to accelerate software testing and delivery.

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