Java Automation Engineer 4 to 6 years Pune

Experience: 4 to 6 yrs

Responsibilities: Plan design and execute test strategies for software releases ensuring all functional regression and integration test suites are completed within defined timelines and quality benchmarks.

Actively participate in release cycles validating builds in staging and pre production environments tracking defects and signing off on release readiness in collaboration with the release management team.

Work closely with developers and product teams to understand feature requirements review technical designs and provide early feedback on testability and potential risk areas.

Serve as a key point of contact for test-related communications proactively raising blockers sharing test progress updates and escalating critical defects to the appropriate stakeholders without delay.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to triage and prioritize defects ensuring issues are clearly documented reproduced and assigned with the necessary context for swift resolution.

Develop and maintain a robust automated test framework using Java JUnit/TestNG and related tools continuously improving test coverage reliability and execution speed.

Conduct code reviews for test scripts and contribute to establishing best practices coding standards and documentation guidelines within the QA function.

Participate in sprint planning stand-ups and retrospectives providing accurate effort estimates for testing tasks and contributing to continuous improvement of the development process.

Monitor test results generate test reports and metrics and present findings clearly to technical and non-technical audiences to support informed decision-making.

Stay current with evolving testing tools frameworks and industry practices and proactively recommend improvements to the existing automation ecosystem. Understanding of AI hallucinations biases and limitations

Prepare technical documentation and provide support for production systems.

Required Qualifications & Skills:

Strong command of core Java concepts including OOP principles multithreading exception handling collections and design patterns with the ability to write clean maintainable and efficient code.

Hands-on experience with Spring and Spring Boot frameworks for building scalable enterprise-grade applications including familiarity with dependency injection REST API development and application configuration.

Proficiency with Maven/Gradle for project build management dependency resolution and lifecycle automation in a Java ecosystem.

Working knowledge of both relational databases (such as MySQL or PostgreSQL) and non-relational databases (such as MongoDB or Redis) including the ability to design schemas and write optimized queries.

Experience with JPA (Java Persistence API) for ORM-based data access including entity mapping JPQL queries and managing database transactions.

Strong debugging skills with proficiency in Java debugging tools such as IntelliJ IDEA Debugger JVisualVM JProfiler or similar capable of diagnosing and resolving complex issues in a timely manner.

Solid experience writing and maintaining test cases using JUnit and/or TestNG including unit integration data-driven and parameterized tests with frameworks like Mockito for mocking dependencies.

Deep understanding of testing methodologies in Java including unit testing integration testing regression testing and test reporting.

Practical experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) with the ability to write test cases before implementation to drive code design and ensure coverage.

(Good to have) Familiarity with Selenium WebDriver for UI/end-to-end test automation would be a strong added advantage.

Hands-on experience with AI assistants. Ability to craft clear effective prompts to get accurate and useful outputs from LLMs.

Ability to fact-check refine and validate AI-generated content before use.

Understanding of AI hallucinations biases and limitations.

Excellent communications skills both verbal and written.

Qualifications :

Qualifications

BE in IT or equivalent

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time