Senior Automation Engineer - Selenium / Playwright Testing

Position : Senior Automation Engineer

Location : Pune (Work From Office Monday to Friday)

Experience : 6+ Years

Salary Range : 16 LPA max

Notice Period : Immediate to 15 Days

About the Role :

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Automation Engineer to lead quality engineering excellence in a modern, agile, and microservices-driven environment. This is a hands-on individual contributor role where you will design robust test strategies, develop automation frameworks, and promote engineering best practices across teams.

You will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality, scalable, and user-focused solutions, particularly within the banking and payments domain. The role also involves supporting cloud migration initiatives, ensuring end-to-end quality, scalability, and performance.

Key Responsibilities :

• Lead in-sprint testing, shift-left quality, and test automation initiatives.
• Design and implement scalable test frameworks using Karate, Selenium, Playwright, and Rest Assured.
• Drive API and UI automation testing using Java-based frameworks.
• Perform performance and load testing using JMeter and contribute to chaos testing strategies.
• Define and monitor Quality KPIs such as test coverage, defect leakage, MTTR, and release readiness.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, and Developers to ensure smooth product delivery.
• Integrate testing with CI / CD pipelines and support release management for seamless deployments.
• Support cloud migration efforts and validate applications for scalability, performance, and reliability.
• Promote TDD (Test-Driven Development) and BDD (Behavior-Driven Development) methodologies.
• Utilize SonarQube and quality gates to enforce code quality standards.
• Continuously evaluate and improve testing tools, strategies, and processes to enhance efficiency.
• Stay updated with emerging quality engineering trends, automation tools, and technologies.

Required Skills and Qualifications :

Hands-on experience with :

Languages : Java (preferred)

Monitoring & Quality Tools :

Preferred Domain Expertise :

(ref : hirist.tech)