Senior QA Automation Engineer – Java, Selenium & AWS

Experience: 8-10 Years
Role: QA Automation Engineer

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior QA Automation Engineer with strong hands-on experience in functional testing Java-based automation Selenium and AWS-hosted regression frameworks.

The ideal candidate will have the ability to design develop enhance and maintain automation frameworks while independently troubleshooting and resolving framework-level and AWS infrastructure-related issues.

This role requires more than executing automation scripts. The candidate will own the end-to-end regression testing process improve framework reliability reduce test execution time minimize flaky tests and work closely with Development and DevOps teams to ensure stable and efficient test automation.

• Design develop and execute functional test cases based on business and technical requirements.

• Perform UI API service-level and end-to-end testing.

• Validate application data directly using SQL queries.

• Develop and maintain automated test scripts using Java Selenium and Cucumber/BDD.

• Perform regression integration and system testing.

• Identify document track and validate defects.

• Build extend refactor and maintain core automation frameworks.

• Develop reusable automation components across UI API and service layers.

• Debug and resolve framework-level issues rather than relying on temporary workarounds.

• Improve framework scalability maintainability execution speed and reliability.

• Implement robust exception handling retry mechanisms and failure recovery strategies.

• Own and maintain the AWS-hosted automation and regression framework.

• Troubleshoot and permanently resolve cloud-related failures including:

  • Container restarts and deployment issues.

  • Load balancer timeouts.

  • Database connectivity and connection-pool exhaustion.

  • S3 and SQS integration failures.

  • IAM permissions and credential expiration.

  • Environment configuration drift.

• Work with AWS services such as EC2 ECS S3 SQS RDS CloudWatch and IAM.

• Strengthen environment provisioning test data seeding teardown and secrets management.

• Ensure test executions start from a consistent and reliable environment baseline.

• Improve regression execution efficiency through parallelization and test sharding.

• Reduce flaky tests and establish measurable automation stability targets.

• Implement retry mechanisms with backoff health checks and readiness gates.

• Develop failure trend dashboards and automated test artefact collection.

• Monitor framework performance and continuously improve execution reliability.

• Analyze application logs stack traces and test execution reports to identify root causes.

• Classify failures as product defects automation script defects test data issues environment failures or timing-related issues.

• Integrate and maintain automation suites within Jenkins and CI/CD pipelines.

• Troubleshoot build pipeline and deployment failures.

• Collaborate with Development DevOps Infrastructure and Testing teams to resolve technical blockers.

• Communicate automation risks testing progress and critical issues to stakeholders.

• 8 years of experience in Quality Assurance covering functional and automation testing.

• Strong Core Java and advanced Java programming concepts.

• Hands-on experience with Selenium WebDriver.

• Experience with Cucumber and BDD frameworks.

• Strong SQL skills for database validation and data verification.

• Proven experience developing debugging enhancing and maintaining automation frameworks.

• Hands-on experience with AWS-hosted automation frameworks.

• Working knowledge of AWS services:

  • EC2 and ECS

  • S3 and SQS

  • RDS

  • CloudWatch

  • IAM

• Experience with Jenkins and CI/CD pipeline integration.

• Strong understanding of Maven and Git.

• Experience with API and service-level automation testing.

• Knowledge of Docker and containerized environments.

• Experience with AWS infrastructure troubleshooting.

• Knowledge of database connectivity connection pooling and load balancer configurations.

• Experience with parallel test execution and test sharding.

• Familiarity with automation reporting dashboards and test monitoring tools.

• Experience with environment provisioning and test data management.

• 8-10 years of overall QA experience.

• Strong hands-on experience in Java-based automation framework development.

• Proven experience with Selenium Cucumber/BDD and SQL.

• Experience owning and improving AWS-based regression automation frameworks.

• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot cloud infrastructure and framework failures.

• Track record of improving regression execution time and reducing flaky tests.

• Experience working with Jenkins Maven Git and CI/CD pipelines.