Senior Engineer - IT

guardianlife; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

guardianlife is seeking a Senior Automation Test Engineer to lead UI and API automation across enterprise applications. The role emphasizes building scalable Playwright/JavaScript‑based automation frameworks, integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring end‑to‑end coverage across UI and API layers.

Strong collaboration with cross‑functional teams and a focus on testability are essential. Ideal candidates will have 4–6 years in QA with 3+ years in hands‑on automation, experience with REST

Qualifications

• 4–6 years of QA or quality engineering experience.
• 3+ years in hands‑on UI and API automation.
• Strong experience building automation frameworks and reusable components.
• Hands‑on with Playwright and JavaScript/TypeScript; Java preferred for API automation.
• Experience with REST API testing using RestAssured, Postman, Newman or equivalents.
• Proficient in Agile/Scrum and collaborating with distributed stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Clarify requirements with Product Owners and engineers to ensure test coverage matches acceptance criteria.
• Participate in backlog grooming and sprint planning to embed automation in the scope.
• Own design, development, and maintenance of UI and API automation frameworks.
• Build reusable test components, data strategies, and API validation workflows.
• Execute automated regression, smoke, functional, and integration tests; report results and insights.
• Integrate automated tests into Jenkins/Git pipelines for continuous testing.

Skills

Playwright

JavaScript/TypeScript & Java

API testing

CI/CD

SDLC/Agile

Cloud knowledge

AI-assisted testing

Test architecture & framework design

Tools

Playwright

Selenium

RestAssured

Postman

Newman

Jenkins

Git

BrowserStack

JMeter

Gatling

AWS

Job description

Senior Automation Test Engineer - UI & API Automation

Job Profile SummaryWe 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

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