CredAble - Principal Test Engineer - Software Quality Assurance

Description :

Role Summary :

We are seeking a Senior Automation Engineer who will own and drive automation engineering across web, mobile, and backend systems. This role requires strong hands-on expertise in Selenium-based automation along with the ability to lead framework design, mentor engineers, and drive quality practices across teams. The candidate will also contribute to expanding modern automation capabilities using Playwright.

Core Responsibilities :

Automation Engineering (Selenium - Primary Stack) :

- Design, develop, and maintain enterprise-grade automation frameworks primarily using Selenium, and secondarily using Playwright.

- Build and maintain end-to-end, integration, and regression test suites for web, backend, and API layers.

- Develop automation in Java / JavaScript / TypeScript using industry best practices.

- Implement cross-browser automation, parallel execution, and environment-aware configurations.

- Automate APIs and backend services using REST Assured, Postman, or equivalent.

- Integrate automation suites into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, CircleCI).

- Reduce flaky tests, improve execution speed, and ensure reliability.

- Manage test data strategies, environment setup, configuration management, and reporting pipelines.

- Analyze failures and debug root causes.

- Maintain automation metrics such as coverage, pass rate, execution time, and CI health.

Technical Leadership & Framework Ownership :

- Own automation architecture and framework design.

- Define and enforce coding standards, test design guidelines, and review practices.

- Lead evaluation and adoption of Selenium and Playwright tools.

- Review automation code and mentor team members.

- Drive sprint planning, estimation, and delivery.

- Collaborate with developers, architects, product managers, and DevOps.

- Identify coverage gaps and quality risks.

- Present automation health and quality reports.

Required Skills & Qualifications :

Selenium (Primary Stack) :

- Strong hands-on experience with Selenium WebDriver.

- Experience building frameworks using Page Object Model or similar.

- Experience with TestNG / JUnit , parallel execution, Selenium Grid, cross-browser testing.

Playwright (Secondary Stack) :

- Experience with Playwright Test Runner, fixtures, POM, parallel execution.

- Knowledge of Chromium, Firefox, WebKit testing.

- Network interception and CI integration.

General Automation & Engineering :

- 5+ years in automation engineering.

- Proficiency in Java, JavaScript/TypeScript.

- Strong knowledge of QA methodologies and Agile SDLC.

- CI/CD, Git, and API automation experience.

- Excellent debugging and communication skills.

Leadership & Ownership :

- Experience owning automation frameworks.

- Ability to mentor engineers and drive quality standards.

- Sprint planning and delivery ownership.

Nice to Have :

- Performance testing (JMeter, Gatling, k6)

- Docker, Kubernetes, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)

- BDD frameworks (Cucumber, SpecFlow)

- Security testing exposure