Senior Software Test Automation Engineer

Senior Software Test Automation Engineer

Role : Senior Software Test Automation Engineer

Professional Experience: 6 – 9 yrs. of Industry experience

Remit

• Execute test planning activities, support test environment readiness, execution, and ongoing progress reporting (in collaboration with lead/manager).
• Coordinate closely with testers and support the transition of manual test scenarios into the automation suite.
• Provide continuous support for both manual and automated testing initiatives, including effort estimation and workload coordination as needed.
• Participate in requirements elicitation and analysis from a QA/testing standpoint; challenge and clarify requirements to ensure testability.
• Operate primarily as an individual contributor with strong hands-on focus (automation/manual execution, framework improvements, defect validation) and support coordination/stakeholder updates when required.
• Participate in and contribute to code reviews / PR reviews for automation changes to ensure coding standards, test reliability, maintainability, and alignment with framework best practices.
• Accelerate automation delivery by leveraging AI-assisted development (e.g., GitHub Copilot), modern Playwright practices, and productivity techniques to improve speed and quality of test creation/maintenance.
• Support mentoring/upskilling of team members on effective and responsible AI usage for automation development, troubleshooting, and framework enhancements.
• Contribute to Proof of Concepts (POCs) to evaluate and adopt new automation tools/approaches (AI-assisted automation, Playwright enhancements), and provide recommendations based on outcomes.

Knowledge/skills and Experience:

• Requirements gathering/analysis in a QA role; challenge and clarify requirements to ensure testability.
• Strong understanding of client business workflows, technology needs, test tools, and integration touchpoints across interfacing systems.
• Strong command of QA best practices, test design techniques, and end-to-end testing methodology.
• Review project artifacts (functional requirements, unit/integration plans, etc.) to identify gaps and ensure complete coverage.
• Validate technical and user documentation for correctness, usability, and procedural accuracy.
• Translate functional/technical specs into reusable manual and automated test scripts for new features and enhancements.
• Plan and execute test cycles (smoke/sanity, functional, integration, regression) with high attention to detail.
• Strong OOP fundamentals with hands-on C#.NET/ Java development skills.
• UI automation with Selenium (C#/Java) and Playwright (TypeScript); API testing (validation + automation).
• Contribute to PR/code review practices for automation frameworks and suites; follow standards/quality gates and help reduce flakiness and maintenance overhead.
• Use AI tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot) for authoring, refactoring, debugging, Playwright fixes, and framework enhancements with strong review discipline.
• Working knowledge / exposure to agentic automation concepts (AI-assisted workflows, scaffolding, intelligent triage/self-healing patterns) to improve productivity and stability.
• Support mentoring engineers on effective and responsible AI usage (prompting practices, secure use, maintainability, and review expectations).
• Contribute to POCs/technical evaluations; document outcomes and recommend adoption based on quality impact, ROI, and delivery goals.

Key Performance measure

• Stable releases with measurable reduction in hotfixes, escaped defects, and defect re-open rate.
• Increased automation coverage of critical business flows (smoke + regression), with coverage growth tracked sprint-over-sprint / release-over-release.
• Reduced automation flakiness via proactive triage, root-cause analysis, and stabilization practices (robust sync/waits, test-data isolation, environment health checks, and controlled retry strategy where appropriate).
• Improved CI/CD signal-to-noise by sustaining a strong pass rate, minimizing false failures, and enabling faster pipeline feedback.
• Lower automation maintenance effort through better test design, higher reusability/modularization, and strong PR quality gates/coding standards.
• Higher automation throughput and improved cycle time using AI-assisted development and Playwright/framework optimizations.

Other Key Competencies:

• Strong verbal/written communication and presentation skills; customer-facing delivery and documentation experience.
• Self-driven and independent; balances ownership with execution detail.
• Effective in ambiguous environments with multiple priorities and stakeholders.
• Proven cross-functional collaboration (Sales, Support, Consulting, Product, Engineering).
• Strong analytical/problem-solving skills with a focus on practical, efficient solutions.
• Thrives on complex problem solving and continuous improvement/innovation.
• Performs well under pressure; manages customer expectations and tight timelines.
• Customer-focused, quality-first mindset with strong attention to detail.
• Strong documentation capability.
• Manual testing skills essential.

Our Interview Practices

To maintain a fair and genuine hiring process, we kindly ask that all candidates participate in interviews without the assistance of AI tools or external prompts. Our interview process is designed to assess your individual skills, experiences, and communication style. We value authenticity and want to ensure we’re getting to know you—not a digital assistant. To help maintain this integrity, we ask to remove virtual backgrounds and include in-person interviews in our hiring process. Please note that use of AI-generated responses or third-party support during interviews will be grounds for disqualification from the recruitment process

Our Interview Practices

To maintain a fair and genuine hiring process, we kindly ask that all candidates participate in interviews without the assistance of AI tools or external prompts. Our interview process is designed to assess your individual skills, experiences, and communication style. We value authenticity and want to ensure we’re getting to know you—not a digital assistant. To help maintain this integrity, we ask to remove virtual backgrounds and include in-person interviews in our hiring process. Please note that use of AI-generated responses or third-party support during interviews will be grounds for disqualification from the recruitment process.

Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process.

Experience Level

Senior Level