Senior Automation Test Engineer - Java with Playwright

EPAM Systems; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,300,000; Full time

Job summary

EPAM Systems in India Gurugram is seeking a Senior Automation Test Engineer to design scalable automation solutions using Java with Playwright and Selenium. You will mentor teams to accelerate testing and delivery while aligning with quality engineering practices.

The role emphasizes building robust automation frameworks, API testing for REST/SOAP, and embedding testing insights into CI/CD workflows to improve release velocity and reliability.

Qualifications

• 6 to 9 years of experience in test automation.
• Expertise in Java automation frameworks, API testing, and 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.

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

Playwright

Selenium

API testing

CI/CD

OOP concepts

Design patterns

Authentication methods

Static analysis

Embeddings for semantic search

Similarity search

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

REST/SOAP testing tooling

Job description

We are seeking a Senior Automation Test Engineer - Java with Playwright 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

• 6 to 9 years of experience in test automation
• Expertise in Java automation frameworks, API testing, and 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