Senior Automation Tester

Luxoft; Pune District; Hybrid; INR 1,800,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Luxoft in Pune, India is seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer to help renew our wholesale platform and evolve products using modern services and integration patterns. You will contribute as a technical expert within a growing team, driving test strategy for API, UI, and data layer across REST/SOAP services.

The role demands hands-on automation and manual testing skills, deep Playwright experience, and strong collaboration in an Agile environment to ensure high quality releases for the

Qualifications

• 8–10 years in both functional and automation testing.
• Experience with API and UI automation testing.
• Proficiency in backend, UI, and database testing.
• Experience testing REST and SOAP services.
• Strong requirements analysis, test case creation, regression testing, and defect tracking.
• Hands-on Playwright automation and manual testing.
• Experience building Playwright frameworks from scratch and understanding Playwright architecture.
• Experience in automation, manual testing and release management.
• Familiarity with agile practices.
• Programming in Java with Maven or Gradle build tools.
• Experience with BDD testing frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Act as technical expert for the Pune team amid platform renewal and product evolution.
• Contribute to building a next-generation Post-Trade & Custody ecosystem via services and modern programming paradigms.

Skills

Automation testing

API testing

UI testing

Manual testing

REST testing

SOAP testing

Back-end testing

Database testing

Requirements analysis

Test case design

Regression testing

Defect tracking

Playwright

Playwright framework

Release management

Agile

Java

Maven

Gradle

BDD frameworks

Tools

Playwright

Maven

Gradle

BDD frameworks

Job description

Role & responsibilities

Our team is undertaking an ambitious program of wholesale platform renewal & product evolution underpinned by genuine digitalization. We are looking for a talented engineer to act as a technical expert for our fledgling team in Pune, India. If you are motivated to build our next-generation Post-Trade & Custody ecosystem based on services and integration in modern programming paradigms, we look forward to receiving your application.

Preferred candidate profile

• Extensive API and UI automation testing experience.
• Hands-on experience of 8 to 10 years in both functional and automation testing.
• Proficiency in backend, UI, and database testing.
• Hands-on testing experience for REST / SOAP services.
• A solid understanding of requirements analysis, test case creation, regression testing, and defect tracking.
• Playwright Automation & Manual Testing.
• Framework development experience from scratch in Playwright and a strong understanding of Playwright architecture.
• Automation, Manual Testing & Release Management.
• Familiarity with agile best practices.
• Programming languages: Java.
• Build tools: Maven or Gradle.
• BDD testing frameworks.

AI-Assisted Testing

• Experience with AI-assisted testing tools and frameworks for test case generation and optimization.
• Familiarity with using generative AI for:
  • Automated test case creation
  • Test script generation (UI and API)
  • Debugging and defect analysis
  • Test data generation and synthetic data creation
• Understanding of intelligent test selection, self-healing test automation, and predictive defect detection.
• Ability to apply AI tools responsibly to improve test coverage, speed, and quality while maintaining governance standards.