Senior Automation Lead: API & Web Test Automation

Capgemini; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Medical, dental and vision coverage

401(k) retirement savings

Job summary

Capgemini seeks a Senior Automation Lead to drive scalable test automation across enterprise applications, focusing on Playwright and Karate, API testing, and automation framework design.

You will mentor teams, collaborate with developers and product owners, and lead regression, integration, and release testing while promoting quality engineering best practices in a fast-paced environment in the United States.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in quality engineering with automation focus.
• Hands-on Playwright and Karate experience building frameworks.
• Strong REST/SOAP API testing and validation skill.
• Proficient in Java, JavaScript, or TypeScript for automation.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of robust test automation frameworks using Playwright and Karate for web and API applications.
• Create, execute, and maintain automated and manual functional test cases to validate business requirements, system behavior, and end-to-end workflows.
• Perform comprehensive API testing for REST and SOAP services using tools such as Karate, Postman, Swagger, and REST Assured, validating payloads, status codes, headers, and error handling.
• Analyze business requirements, API specifications, and technical designs to identify test scenarios and ensure complete functional and integration test coverage.
• Drive automation strategy, best practices, and quality standards while promoting test automation adoption across project teams.
• Collaborate with developers, business analysts, product owners, and other stakeholders to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve defects throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Lead regression, integration, and release testing activities, providing test execution reports, quality metrics, and risk assessments to project leadership.

Skills

Playwright

Karate

REST APIs

SOAP APIs

Java

JavaScript/TypeScript

Agile

CI/CD

Leadership

Tools

Postman

Swagger

REST Assured

Karate Framework

Job description

Capgemini seeks a Senior Automation Lead to drive scalable test automation across enterprise applications, focusing on Playwright and Karate, API testing, and automation framework design.

You will mentor teams, collaborate with developers and product owners, and lead regression, integration, and release testing while promoting quality engineering best practices in a fast-paced environment in the United States.