Senior Automation Test Engineer - Java with Playwright

EPAM Systems, Inc.; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

EPAM Systems, Inc. in Bengaluru is seeking an experienced Senior Test Automation Engineer to design and maintain scalable automation frameworks in Java. You will lead architecture decisions, implement parallel execution across browsers, and build reusable components to accelerate release cycles.

The role requires strong API testing skills, knowledge of authentication mechanisms, and experience with CI/CD integrations (Jenkins, GitHub Actions). Exposure to embeddings for semantic search is a plus.

Qualifications

• 6 to 9 years of experience in test automation.
• Expertise in Java-based automation frameworks.
• API testing experience.
• CI/CD integration experience.
• Strong OO principles: classes, inheritance, polymorphism, encapsulation, abstraction.
• Knowledge of authentication mechanisms including Basic, Bearer Tokens, OAuth, and NTLM.
• Familiarity with design patterns including Singleton, Factory, Decorator, Page Object Model, and Page Factory.
• Experience with static code analysis and quality gates.
• Background in generating and utilizing embeddings for semantic search applications.
• Understanding of similarity search and retrieval mechanisms.
• Nice to have Attention mechanisms and Transformer-based model architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, 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

OO principles

Design patterns

Static code analysis

Embeddings for semantic search

Similarity search

Attention mechanisms (optional)

Transformer models (optional)

Tools

Selenium

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Job description

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

• 6 to 9 years of experience in test automation
• Expertise in Java automation frameworks
• API testing
• CI/CD integration
• Proficiency in Object-Oriented Programming principles, including classes and objects, inheritance, polymorphism, encapsulation, and abstraction
• Knowledge of authentication and authorization mechanisms including Basic Authentication, Bearer Tokens, OAuth, and NTLM
• Familiarity with software design patterns including Singleton, Factory, Decorator, Page Object Model, and Page Factory
• Skills in 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