Senior Test Automation Engineer : AI-Augmented Quality Engineering

Senior Test Automation Engineer: AI-Augmented Quality Engineering

Experience: 7 to 10 years

Level: Senior IC

Location: Hyderabad

Shift timings - 5:30PM - 2:30AM IST

(Work from office)

About the Role

We're looking for a Senior Test Automation Engineer to own automation strategy and delivery for a large-scale, multi-platform commerce and payments ecosystem spanning mobile apps, web dashboards, and custom point-of-sale (POS) hardware.

This role goes well beyond writing scripts: you will architect resilient frameworks, embed quality into fast biweekly release trains (Master / Convergence / Release builds), and apply AI and LLM-based tooling to generate, self-heal, and triage tests at scale. You'll work hands-on daily while raising the automation bar across squads.

What You'll Do

• Architect frameworks: Design, build, and maintain scalable UI, API, and end-to-end automation across web, iOS, Android, and hardware/POS devices.
• Own the pipeline: Author and stabilize suites in CI/CD (Buildkite / Jenkins / GitHub Actions), manage sharding, parallel execution, and pipeline reliability to cut feedback time from hours to minutes.
• Kill flakiness: Investigate failures, refactor toward page objects, and implement self-healing and AI-assisted auto-triage to reduce maintenance load.
• Apply AI to testing: Use LLM tooling (e.g., Claude, Copilot, Cursor) to accelerate test authoring, generate edge-case/negative scenarios, produce synthetic test data, and convert manual test cases into automated flows.
• Drive coverage: Own regression, smoke, convergence, compatibility, and production-verification testing across a continuous release cadence.
• Shift left & lead: Partner with developers, DevOps, and product to define test strategy, standards, and coverage metrics, mentor mid-level QA engineers.

Must-Have Qualifications

• 7 to 10 years in QA / test automation
• Strong programming in Python and/or TypeScript/JavaScript (or any programming language, but must be strong in one ) with solid testing fundamentals.
• Deep hands-on experience with modern frameworks - Playwright and/or Cypress (web), Appium (mobile), Selenium.
• API and contract testing (Postman, REST Assured, Pact / GraphQL).
• Proven CI/CD engineering - Buildkite / Jenkins / GitHub Actions, Git, Docker, parallelization and flaky-test stabilization.
• Test management and defect tracking with TestRail and Jira / Linear.
• Demonstrated track record architecting frameworks from scratch, reducing flakiness, and scaling coverage across platforms.

AI-Side Expectations (Key Differentiator)

• Hands-on with AI-assisted testing: LLM-driven test generation, self-healing selectors, and AI triage/investigation agents.
• Practical prompt & context engineering - decomposition patterns and supplying architecture/context so AI output is production-grade, not a "flawed intern."

Nice to Have

• Cross-platform testing on custom hardware / embedded POS devices, device farms (BrowserStack, Sauce Labs).
• Fintech, payments, or retail/restaurant POS domain experience, high-frequency release-train environments.