Senior Test Engineer – Enterprise Automation & Platform Quality

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

Job summary

SRM Technologies in Chennai seeks a Senior Test Engineer specializing in enterprise automation and platform quality to design scalable automated testing frameworks and ensure robustness across distributed enterprise systems.

You will own regression, integration, and end-to-end automation suites, validate performance, security, and observability, and collaborate with engineering teams to shift quality left in release cycles.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software testing with strong automation focus.
• Expertise in automation frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, REST Assured.
• Experience with performance testing tools such as JMeter, k6, Gatling.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD and DevOps-integrated testing.
• Strong programming in Python, Java, or similar.
• Strong debugging and system-level troubleshooting skills.
• Experience in financial services or regulated environments.
• Familiarity with observability tools like Grafana, ELK, Datadog.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable automated test frameworks across UI, API, and backend layers.
• Establish CI/CD-integrated test pipelines for rapid feedback and continuous validation.
• Define automation standards, coding practices, and test data strategies.
• Own regression, integration, and end-to-end automation suites.
• Ensure reliability across distributed systems, APIs, asynchronous workflows, and microservices.
• Validate performance, scalability, and resilience under production-like loads.
• Implement security, compliance, and audit validation testing in line with enterprise standards.
• Conduct defect root-cause analysis and drive systemic quality improvements.
• Validate frontend components, backend services, databases, and integrations.
• Build and maintain API automation frameworks (REST / GraphQL).
• Collaborate with engineering teams to shift quality left.
• Embed observability and monitoring validation into release cycles.
• Act as the quality gatekeeper prior to production releases.

Skills

Automation testing

CI/CD

DevOps testing

Debugging

Regulated environments

Tools

Selenium

Playwright

Cypress

REST Assured

JMeter

k6

Gatling

Grafana

ELK

Datadog

Job description

Primary Focus:

Enterprisesystems, automation frameworks, CI/CD, performance, and platform reliability.

RoleSummary

We are seeking a Senior Test Engineerspecializing in enterprise automation and platform quality to designscalable automated testing frameworks and ensure robustness across distributedenterprise systems.

Qualifications

Must have

• 7+ years in software testing with strong automation focus
• Expertise in automation frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright,Cypress, REST Assured
• Experience with performance testing tools (JMeter, k6, Gatling,etc.)

• Strong understanding of CI/CD andDevOps-integrated testing

AdditionalQualifications

• Strongprogramming in Python, Java, or similar
• Strongdebugging and system-level troubleshooting skills
• Experiencein financial services or regulated environments
• Familiaritywith observability tools (Grafana, ELK, Datadog, etc.)

KeyResponsibilities

AutomationStrategy & Architecture

• Design and implement scalable automated test frameworks across UI,API, and backend layers .
• Establish CI/CD-integrated test pipelines for rapid feedbackand continuous validation.
• Define automation standards, coding practices, and test datastrategies .
• Own regression, integration, and end-to-end automation suites .

EnterpriseSystem Quality Assurance

• Ensure reliability across distributed systems, APIs,asynchronous workflows, and microservices .
• Validate performance, scalability, and resilience underproduction-like loads.
• Implement security, compliance, and audit validation testing aligned with enterprise standards.
• Conduct defect root-cause analysis and drive systemicquality improvements.

Full-StackSystem Testing

• Validate frontend components, backend services, databases, andintegrations .
• Build and maintain API automation frameworks (REST / GraphQL) .
• Collaborate closely with engineering teams to shift quality left .

QualityGovernance & Release Assurance

• Define test coverage benchmarks and quality KPIs alignedwith business impact.
• Embed observability and monitoring validation into releasecycles.
• Act as the quality gatekeeper prior to production releases .
• Contribute to long-term quality engineering maturity and toolingstrategy .