Senior Automation Test Engineer - Java with Playwright

EPAM Systems; India; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

EPAM Systems in India seeks a senior test automation engineer to design, develop, and maintain scalable automation frameworks using Java and Selenium. You will lead architecture decisions, implement parallel execution, and drive API testing with CI/CD integration.

You will build reusable libraries, validate REST/SOAP payloads, and publish reports, contributing to high-quality code and repeatable testing practices across platforms.

Qualifications

• 6 to 9 years of experience in test automation.
• Strong expertise in Java automation frameworks and Selenium.
• Proficiency in API testing of REST and SOAP services.
• Experience integrating automation with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
• Solid understanding of OO design principles and patterns.
• Knowledge of authentication/authorization mechanisms (Basic, Bearer, OAuth, NTLM).
• Familiarity with design patterns such as Page Object Model, Singleton, Factory.
• Experience with static code analysis and quality gates configuration.
• Background in embeddings for semantic search and similarity retrieval
• Interest in attention mechanisms and transformer-based models

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 integration

OO programming principles

Authentication mechanisms

Design patterns

Static code analysis

Embeddings for semantic search

Similarity search mechanisms

Attention mechanisms / Transformer

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