Lead AI-Driven Test Automation Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 100,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary Annual Incentive

Medical Coverage: Health, Dental & VIs

Parental Leaves

401K Plan

Certification & Training Reimbursement

Vacation & Holidays

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services is seeking an AI Automation Lead / Automation Engineer in Plano, TX to design and maintain robust Playwright/Cypress based automation for UI, API, and end-to-end validation. You will drive AI-enabled opportunities and traditional automation across application teams.

You will develop reusable assets, set standards, and collaborate with product, engineering, and QA to define scope and strategy, while integrating tests with CI/CD and tracking KPIs.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Playwright automation for web, API, and end-to-end testing.
• Experience with non-AI test automation using Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, or similar tools; CI/CD integration.
• Programming in JavaScript/TypeScript and/or Java; build reusable utilities and data handlers.
• API testing experience with REST Assured, Postman, Playwright API testing.
• Knowledge of AI-enabled automation, GenAI-assisted testing, AI agents, and related concepts.
• Experience with test strategy, coverage planning, regression optimization, defect triage, metrics.
• Strong Agile understanding and collaboration with product/engineering teams.
• Banking/financial services or regulated delivery experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, and maintenance of Playwright and Cypress based automation frameworks for UI, API, and end-to-end validation.
• Drive AI-enabled automation opportunities and traditional automation execution across teams.
• Create reusable automation assets, coding standards, framework guidelines, and best practices.
• Partner with product owners, developers, QA teams, and delivery leads on scope, acceptance criteria, strategy.
• Integrate automated test suites with CI/CD pipelines and ensure reliable execution and reporting.
• Identify automation candidates, reduce manual testing, improve regression cycle time.
• Enable GenAI use cases like test scenario generation and data creation.
• Provide technical guidance to offshore/onsite automation engineers; review code and unblock issues.
• Track automation KPIs: coverage, stability, pass rate, defect leakage, productivity.
• Prepare concise status updates and leadership-level summaries for stakeholders.

Skills

Playwright automation

Selenium

Cypress

API testing

JavaScript/TypeScript

Java

CI/CD

GenAI automation

AI agents

QA metrics

Agile delivery

Financial services domain

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field

Tools

REST Assured

Postman

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Tata Consultancy Services is seeking an AI Automation Lead / Automation Engineer in Plano, TX to design and maintain robust Playwright/Cypress based automation for UI, API, and end-to-end validation. You will drive AI-enabled opportunities and traditional automation across application teams.

You will develop reusable assets, set standards, and collaborate with product, engineering, and QA to define scope and strategy, while integrating tests with CI/CD and tracking KPIs.