Lead Automation Test Engineer Java with Playwright

We are seeking a Lead Automation Test Engineer with strong expertise in Java-based test automation frameworks API testing and CI/CD integration. The ideal candidate will design scalable automation solutions drive quality engineering practices and mentor teams to accelerate software testing and delivery.

• Design develop enhance and maintain scalable test automation frameworks using Java
• Build robust automation solutions using Selenium
• Lead framework architecture decisions focused on scalability maintainability and reusability
• Implement parallel execution strategies and optimize execution times across browsers and platforms
• Develop reusable libraries utilities and framework extensions
• Design and implement API automation solutions for REST and SOAP services
• Validate XML and JSON payloads through serialization and deserialization techniques
• Handle session management and API integration testing
• Conduct code reviews and enforce clean coding standards
• Establish and govern coding standards branching strategies and version control best practices
• Integrate automation suites with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub Actions
• Configure static code analysis and quality gates and publish automation reports and dashboards for stakeholders

• 9 to 14 years of experience in IT
• Expertise in Java Object-Oriented Programming principles (Classes and Objects Inheritance Polymorphism Encapsulation Abstraction)
• Proficiency in Selenium API test automation and CI/CD integration
• Knowledge of authentication and authorization mechanisms including Basic Authentication Bearer Tokens OAuth and NTLM
• Familiarity with software design patterns including Singleton Factory Decorator Page Object Model (POM) and Page Factory
• Competency in Jenkins and GitHub Actions for CI/CD pipeline integration
• Background in generating and utilizing embeddings for semantic search applications
• Understanding of similarity search and retrieval mechanisms

• Understanding of Transformer Architecture Attention Mechanisms and Transformer-based model architectures