Senior Engineer - IT

Guardian; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,400,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

Guardian in Chennai is seeking a Senior Automation Test Engineer focused on UI and API automation. The role demands hands-on expertise in Playwright, RestAssured, and a strong automation framework mindset to ensure end-to-end test coverage.

You will integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, collaborate with product and engineering teams, and drive testability improvements across layers. Strong coding skills in JavaScript/TypeScript or Java are essential.

Qualifications

• 4-6 years in QA/testing or quality engineering.
• At least 3 years in UI and API automation.
• Experience building automation frameworks and reusable components.
• Hands-on with Playwright and JavaScript/TypeScript; Java preferred for API automation.
• Experience with REST API testing and automation tools.

Responsibilities

• Clarify requirements with product owners and engineers.
• Plan, refine criteria, and embed automation into sprint scope.
• Own design, development, and maintenance of UI/API automation frameworks.
• Build reusable components, data strategies, and API contracts.
• Execute automated suites and report results; drive improvements.
• Integrate tests into Jenkins/Git pipelines for continuous testing.
• Identify defects early and perform root-cause analysis.
• Collaborate to improve testability and provide UAT support.

Skills

UI automation

API testing

Framework design

Programming

End-to-end testing

CI/CD

Quality engineering

Cloud technologies

AI-assisted testing

Testing tools exposure

Tools

Playwright

Selenium

RestAssured

Postman

Newman

JavaScript/TypeScript

Java

Job description

Job Description

Senior Automation Test Engineer - UI & API Automation

Job Profile Summary

We are seeking a Senior Automation Test Engineer - UI & API Automation with strong hands-on experience in designing, developing, and maintaining automation solutions for enterprise applications. This role combines deep UI automation expertise with strong API testing and API automation capability

The Senior Automation Test Engineer will define and execute automation test strategies, build robust frameworks using Playwright and JavaScript/TypeScript or Java, integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines, and collaborate closely with Product Owners, developers, Lead Engineers, and QA partners to ensure requirement clarity, end-to-end test coverage, and defect prevention.

Key Skills

• UI automation: Strong hands-on experience with Playwright as the preferred tool, with Selenium as a plus.
• API testing and automation: Strong experience with REST API testing using RestAssured, Postman, Newman, and Java or JavaScript/TypeScript based API automation.
• Framework design: Ability to design and enhance scalable automation frameworks using hybrid, keyword-driven, data-driven, BDD, and Page Object Model approaches.
• Programming: Strong coding proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and/or Java with an automation-first engineering mindset.
• End-to-end testing: Ability to connect UI, API, integration, regression, smoke, and functional test coverage across application flows.
• CI/CD and DevOps: Experience with Jenkins, Git, pipelines, test reporting, debugging tools, and continuous testing practices.
• Quality engineering fundamentals: Strong understanding of SDLC, STLC, Agile/Scrum, quality gates, defect prevention, and test coverage strategy.
• Cloud and infrastructure: Working knowledge of AWS or cloud-based device/browser farms such as BrowserStack.
• AI-assisted testing: Ability to use tools such as GitHub Copilot, Playwright AI-assisted locators, and test generators to accelerate script creation, refactoring, and documentation.
• Additional exposure: Performance testing tools such as JMeter or Gatling, accessibility testing, security testing, and regulated domain experience are preferred.

Required Qualifications

• 4-6 years of experience in QA, software testing, or quality engineering.
• At least 3 years of hands-on automation testing experience across UI and API automation.
• Strong experience building automation frameworks and reusable test components.
• Hands-on experience with Playwright and JavaScript/TypeScript; Java experience is strongly preferred for API automation.
• Experience with REST API testing and automation using RestAssured, Postman, Newman, or equivalent tools.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams with distributed stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, debugging, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to conduct automation code reviews, and influence quality practices across teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in insurance, financial services, healthcare, or other regulated domains.
• Exposure to performance, security, and accessibility testing for web applications.
• Working knowledge of AWS or other cloud platforms.
• Experience improving automation maturity, test stability, release confidence, and sprint quality metrics.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Requirement clarification: Partner with Product Owners, developers, Lead Engineers, and technical teams to ensure test scenarios align with business intent and acceptance criteria.
• Backlog and test planning: Participate in grooming and sprint planning, refine acceptance criteria, define test coverage, and ensure automation opportunities are embedded into sprint scope.
• Automation framework ownership: Design, develop, maintain, and enhance scalable UI and API automation frameworks using Playwright, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, RestAssured, Postman, and Newman.
• UI and API test development: Build reusable test components, utilities, test data strategies, service validations, API contracts, and end-to-end automated test flows.
• Execution and reporting: Execute automated regression, smoke, functional, integration, and API test suites; analyze results, identify failure trends, and communicate actionable insights.
• CI/CD integration: Integrate automated tests into Jenkins/Git-based pipelines to support continuous testing, quality gates, and faster release feedback.
• Defect identification and RCA: Identify defects early, perform root cause analysis, collaborate with developers on permanent fixes, and improve defect prevention practices.
• Testability and engineering partnership: Collaborate with UI and backend engineers to improve testability through stable selectors, test IDs, API readiness, mocks, data setup, and service-level validation.
• UAT and business support: Support business users during UAT cycles with test clarification, quick triage, and validation support.
• Documentation and best practices: Maintain test documentation, automation guidelines, reusable templates, framework standards, and coding best practices.
• AI-assisted quality engineering: Use AI tools such as GitHub Copilot, Playwright AI-assisted locators, and test generators to accelerate automation creation, refactoring, documentation, and productivity.
• Continuous improvement: Drive improvements in automation coverage, test reliability, execution efficiency, sprint quality metrics, and release confidence
• Support automation code reviews, promote knowledge sharing, and influence quality-first engineering behaviours.
• Work shift: Work in overlapping time zones with US teams on the East coast as required

Location

This position can be based in any of the following locations:

Chennai