Hiring : Senior Automation Tester (SDET) (58 yrs) | Playwright | API | QA Engineering

Location : Pune

We're looking for a Senior Automation Tester to own the automated quality of platforms - building and scaling our Playwright + API test suites so the critical funnel is protected on every release, across the web, the React Native app, and the .NET services behind them.

What Youll Do :

1. Own the automation framework :

- Build and scale automated coverage in Playwright (TypeScript) - page-object, data-driven, reusable - and grow our critical-path suite.

- Own the automation architecture : keep it fast, stable, and low-flake, and set the standards the rest of QA automates against.

2. API & Integration automation :

- Automate REST API tests (Postman / Swagger / framework-driven) and contract checks across services.

- Verify backend state in MongoDB (read-only) to assert data correctness across QA/UAT/prod.

3. CI/CD & quality gates :

- Integrate automated suites into CI (GitHub Actions) as release gates; make results and failures easy to read.

- Drive shift-left : get automation running early and continuously, not just at the end.

4. AI-first :

- Use AI (e.g. Claude Code, Codex etc.) to generate and maintain test code faster - with the judgment to review what it produces.

- Help test our AI features : validate the Claude-powered assistant's outputs for accuracy and guardrails.

5. Triage & membership :

- Lead defect triage and RCA; feed preventive actions back to engineering.

- Mentor QA engineers on automation practices and raise the team's automation bar.

What You Must Have :

- 5-8 yrs in test automation / quality engineering.

- Strong Playwright (primary) with TypeScript/JavaScript; POM and data-driven frameworks.

- API test automation (Postman / Swagger / REST).

- CI/CD integration (GitHub Actions or Azure Pipelines); Docker-based execution.

- Cross-browser and real-device iOS/Android automation experience.

- AI-first : you use AI to build and maintain automation effectively, and review its output critically.

- Strong Agile/Scrum and microservices testing approach.

Nice to Have :

- Payments / 3DS test flows; travel / OTA / e-commerce or high-traffic domain.

- Database testing (MongoDB, PostgreSQL); Python or Bash/PowerShell for tooling.

- BDD (Cucumber/SpecFlow); visual regression; contract testing (Pact).

- Performance/load testing (k6, JMeter, Gatling); security basics (OWASP).

- Test data / synthetic data management; ISTQB or Playwright certification.