Senior Automation Test Engineer - Java with Playwright

Epam Systems; Hyderabad, Chennai District, Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Epam Systems is seeking a Senior Automation Test Engineer - Java with Playwright to design scalable automation solutions and drive quality practices across teams. You will mentor engineers, implement frameworks, and lead API automation for REST and SOAP services.

The role focuses on building robust automation libraries, enabling parallel execution across browsers, and integrating with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions). Strong knowledge of OOP and design patterns is essential.

Qualifications

• 6 to 9 years of experience in test automation.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, enhance, and maintain scalable test automation frameworks using Java.

Skills

Java automation

API testing

CI/CD integration

OOP concepts

Design patterns

Page Object Model

Static code analysis

Embeddings for semantic search

Similarity search

Auth mechanisms

Tools

Selenium

Playwright

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

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