Senior Test Automation Engineer

Role - Senior Test Automation Engineer : AI-Augmented Quality Engineering

Experience: 7–10 years | Level: Senior IC (with technical-leadership & mentoring scope) |

Location: Hyderabad | Shift timings - 5:30PM - 2:30AM IST ( Work from office)

About the Role

We're looking for a Senior Test Automation Engineer to own automation strategy and delivery

for a large-scale, multi-platform commerce and payments ecosystem spanning mobile apps,

web dashboards, and custom point-of-sale (POS) hardware. This role goes well beyond writing

scripts: you will architect resilient frameworks, embed quality into fast biweekly release trains

(Master / Convergence / Release builds), and apply AI and LLM-based tooling to generate,

self-heal, and triage tests at scale. You'll work hands-on daily while raising the automation bar

across squads.

What You'll Do

- Architect frameworks: Design, build, and maintain scalable UI, API, and end-to-end

automation across web, iOS, Android, and hardware/POS devices.

- Own the pipeline: Author and stabilize suites in CI/CD (Buildkite / Jenkins / GitHub

Actions), manage sharding, parallel execution, and pipeline reliability to cut feedback

time from hours to minutes.

- Kill flakiness: Investigate failures, refactor toward page objects, and implement

self-healing and AI-assisted auto-triage to reduce maintenance load.

- Apply AI to testing: Use LLM tooling (e.g., Claude, Copilot, Cursor) to accelerate test

authoring, generate edge-case/negative scenarios, produce synthetic test data, and

convert manual test cases into automated flows.

- Drive coverage: Own regression, smoke, convergence, compatibility, and

production-verification testing across a continuous release cadence.

- Shift left & lead: Partner with developers, DevOps, and product to define test strategy,

standards, and coverage metrics, mentor mid-level QA engineers.

Must-Have Qualifications

- 7–10 years in QA / test automation, including 3+ years in a senior or lead capacity.

- Strong programming in Python and/or TypeScript/JavaScript (Java a plus) with solid

testing fundamentals.

- Deep hands-on experience with modern frameworks - Playwright and/or Cypress

(web), Appium (mobile), Selenium.

- API and contract testing (Postman, REST Assured, Pact / GraphQL).

- Proven CI/CD engineering - Buildkite / Jenkins / GitHub Actions, Git, Docker,

parallelization and flaky-test stabilization.

- Test management and defect tracking with TestRail and Jira / Linear.

- Demonstrated track record architecting frameworks from scratch, reducing flakiness, and

scaling coverage across platforms.

AI-Side Expectations (Key Differentiator)

- Hands-on with AI-assisted testing: LLM-driven test generation, self-healing selectors,

and AI triage/investigation agents.

- Practical prompt & context engineering - decomposition patterns and supplying

architecture/context so AI output is production-grade, not a flawed intern.

Nice to Have

- Cross-platform testing on custom hardware / embedded POS devices, device farms

(BrowserStack, Sauce Labs).

- Fintech, payments, or retail/restaurant POS domain experience, high-frequency

release-train environments.