Senior QA Test Automation Engineer

Eurofins; Coimbatore District; On-site; INR 800,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Eurofins Scientific in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India is seeking a Senior QA Test Engineer – Automation to design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts using Java, Selenium WebDriver, and TestNG/JUnit as part of an agile team.

You will strengthen automation frameworks, contribute to CI/CD pipelines, and collaborate with Product Owners, Developers, and QA to ensure robust test coverage, API testing, and backend validation with SQL.

Qualifications

• 4 to 7 years of experience in automation testing with Java (preferred).
• Strong expertise in Selenium WebDriver with Java, TestNG or JUnit frameworks.
• Experience in BDD frameworks (Cucumber) is a plus.
• Hands-on experience testing REST APIs and Web Services (Postman, RestAssured).
• Familiarity with frontend automation tools (Selenium, Playwright, Cypress).
• Strong knowledge of SQL for backend validation.
• Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Git) and build tools (Maven/Gradle).
• Understanding of microservices architecture and distributed systems testing.
• Good to have: Experience in performance testing tools (JMeter, LoadRunner).

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain automation test scripts using Java, Selenium WebDriver, and TestNG/JUnit.
• Enhance and maintain automation frameworks supporting CI/CD pipelines and enabling automated smoke and regression test suites.
• Work closely with Product Owners and Business Analysts to refine requirements and provide QA inputs.
• Design and document test cases, test scenarios, and test strategies across functional, regression, and end-to-end testing cycles.
• Participate in reviews of test design, coverage, and automation scripts with stakeholders.
• Identify gaps in test coverage, perform root cause analysis of defects, and enhance test scenarios accordingly.
• Perform API testing for RESTful and SOAP services using tools such as Postman and RestAssured.
• Write SQL queries (joins, subqueries) to validate test results against underlying databases.
• Execute, monitor, and analyze test results aligned with test metrics and quality KPIs.
• Track, manage, and resolve defects using tools such as Azure DevOps/JIRA.
• Collaborate with QA, Development, and Product teams for issue resolution.
• Perform manual testing (functional, exploratory) where automation is not feasible.
• Work in an Agile/Scrum environment with continuous testing practices.

Skills

Java automation

Selenium WebDriver

TestNG/JUnit

API testing

SQL

CI/CD

Git/Jenkins/Azure DevOps

Education

BE / MCA or equivalent degree

Tools

Postman

RestAssured

Maven/Gradle

Jira

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

Git

Playwright

Cypress

Job description

Eurofins Scientificis an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.

The Eurofins network of companies believes that it is a global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and AgroScience contract research services. It is also one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, and in the support of clinical studies, as well as in biopharma contract development and manufacturing. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

In over 37 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to over 65,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of more than 950 laboratories in over 1,000 companies across 59 countries. Eurofins companies offer a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products.

In 2024, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6.95 billion; and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

Job Description

Position title: Senior QA Test Engineer – Automation (Full-time)

Location:Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

• Develop and maintainautomation test scripts using Java, Selenium WebDriver, and TestNG/JUnit.
• Enhance and maintainautomation frameworkssupporting CI/CD pipelines and enabling automated smoke and regression test suites.
• Work closely with Product Owners and Business Analysts to refine requirements and provide QA inputs.
• Design and documenttest cases, test scenarios, and test strategiesacross functional, regression, and end-to-end testing cycles.
• Participate in reviews of test design, coverage, and automation scripts with stakeholders.
• Identify gaps in test coverage, performroot cause analysis of defects, and enhance test scenarios accordingly.
• PerformAPI testing for RESTful and SOAP servicesusing tools such as Postman and RestAssured.
• Write SQL queries (joins, subqueries) to validate test results against underlying databases.
• Execute, monitor, and analyze test results aligned with test metrics and quality KPIs.
• Track, manage, and resolve defects using tools such asAzure DevOps/JIRA.
• Collaborate with QA, Development, and Product teams for issue resolution.
• Performmanual testing(functional, exploratory) where automation is not feasible.
• Work in anAgile/Scrum environmentwith continuous testing practices.

Technical Knowledge

• 4 to 7 yearsof experience inautomation testing with Java (preferred).
• Strong expertise inSelenium WebDriver with Java, TestNG or JUnit frameworks.
• Experience inBDD frameworks (Cucumber)is a plus.
• Hands-on experience testingREST APIs and Web Services(Postman, RestAssured).
• Familiarity withfrontend automation tools (Selenium, Playwright, Cypress).
• Strong knowledge ofSQLfor backend validation.
• Experience withCI/CD tools (Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Git)and build tools (Maven/Gradle).
• Understanding ofmicroservices architecture and distributed systems testing.
• Good to have: Experience inperformance testing tools (JMeter, LoadRunner).

Personal Qualities

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams (PO, Dev, QA, Release, Leadership).
• Self-motivated with a quality-first mindset and attention to detail.

Qualifications

• BE / MCA or equivalent degree or relevant experience.