MAR_139:Senior Test Engineer / Test Automation Engineer

Job Description

MANDATORY SKILLS

Testing - Hil - Dspace

Preferred Skills

Diagnostic

Senior Test Engineer – Playwright Automation

Experience: 2–5 years

Role: Senior Test Engineer / Test Automation Engineer

Role Summary

We are looking for a skilled Senior Test Engineer with 2–5 years of relevant experience in functional and automation testing. The candidate should have strong hands-on expertise in Playwright, along with experience in designing and executing test cases, maintaining regression/sanity suites, defect management, and following testing best practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze functional and non-functional requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria to define effective test scenarios.
• Design, create, execute, and maintain manual and automated test cases.
• Develop and maintain Playwright-based automation test suites.
• Perform functional, regression, smoke, sanity, system, API, integration, security, performance, and release testing as applicable.
• Identify positive, negative, boundary, and corner test scenarios.
• Review automated test scripts and test results.
• Maintain regression and sanity automation packs.
• Identify defects and maintain clear defect records using JIRA.
• Ensure traceability of testing activities, defects, and results.
• Perform root cause analysis for defect leakage and enhance test coverage accordingly.
• Continuously improve overall test automation coverage and testing processes.
• Work closely with development and other stakeholders to maintain product quality.
• Participate actively in Agile/Scrum ceremonies.
• Guide junior test engineers and support knowledge-sharing/training activities.
• Independently plan and drive assigned testing activities to closure.
  
  

Mandatory Skills

• Playwright Test Automation
• Strong Functional/Manual Testing
• Test case design, execution, and maintenance
• Regression, Smoke and Sanity Testing
• Strong knowledge of Test Automation frameworks
• JIRA for defect/test management
• GitHub / Git commands
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience creating positive, negative, boundary and corner test cases
• Agile/Scrum working experience
• Ability to work independently and guide junior team members
  
  

Preferred / Good-to-Have Skills

• Automotive domain knowledge
• DTC Authoring / diagnostic tool-related testing
• API and integration testing exposure
• ISTQB or equivalent testing certification
  
  

Job Responsibilities

Verify quality of requirements and reject if insufficient for qualified development and test creation

• Translate functional and non-functional requirements, user stories and acceptance criteria into various test cases
• Define, create and execute test cases for manual and for automated execution
• Define, create and execute test cases for different levels and stages (system, API, integration, regression, security, performance, release)
• Define, create and execute test cases to validate the inter-operability of the software with other tools of the KPIT diagnostic tool chain if applicable.
• Actively look for ways to break the software
• Review test code of other test engineers
• Follow up discovered issues with descriptive defect records using the standard tooling (JIRA)
• Ensure traceability of all testing related activities and results using standard workflow and tooling (JIRA)
• Maintain high hygiene in testing activities and processes
• Influence other stakeholders to ensure quality expectations are met.
• Constantly increase level of test automation and related processes where possible and beneficial
• Plan testing activities in close cooperation with or as part of the development team / authoring team
• Proactively gather data to highlight system improvement areas
• Participate in all scrum ceremonies
• Plan and organize training of test engineers.
• Perform root cause analysis on why reported bugs were not detected by our test team (Leakage Cause) and enhance own test scenarios accordingly