Senior Engineer - IT
The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America16 hours ago
Chennai, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Clarify requirements and acceptance criteria with Product Owners, developers, Lead Engineers, and technical teams.
- Design, develop, maintain, and enhance scalable UI and API automation frameworks and reusable test components.
- Build automated UI, API, integration, regression, smoke, functional, and end-to-end test flows.
- Develop test data strategies, service validations, API contracts, mocks, and other testability improvements.
- Execute automated test suites, analyze results and failure trends, and communicate actionable quality insights.
- Integrate automated testing into Jenkins and Git-based pipelines to support continuous testing and quality gates.
- Identify defects, perform root cause analysis, collaborate on permanent fixes, and improve defect prevention.
- Participate in backlog grooming and sprint planning and embed automation opportunities into sprint scope.
- Support UAT users through test clarification, triage, and validation assistance.
- Maintain test documentation, automation guidelines, reusable templates, framework standards, and coding practices.
- Use AI-assisted tools to accelerate automation creation, refactoring, documentation, and productivity.
- Support automation code reviews, knowledge sharing, and improvements to test coverage, reliability, execution efficiency, and release confidence.
- Work overlapping hours with US East Coast teams as required.
Requirements
- 4–6 years of experience in QA, software testing, or quality engineering.
- At least 3 years of hands-on automation testing experience across UI and API automation.
- Strong experience building automation frameworks and reusable test components.
- Hands-on experience with Playwright and JavaScript/TypeScript; Java is strongly preferred for API automation.
- Experience with REST API testing and automation using RestAssured, Postman, Newman, or equivalent tools.
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams with distributed stakeholders.
- Strong analytical, debugging, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to conduct automation code reviews and influence quality practices across teams.
- Preferred experience in insurance, financial services, healthcare, or other regulated domains.
- Preferred exposure to performance, security, and accessibility testing for web applications.
- Working knowledge of AWS or other cloud platforms is preferred.
- Preferred experience improving automation maturity, test stability, release confidence, and sprint quality metrics.
Benefits
- Position is based in Chennai.
- Requires overlapping work hours with US East Coast teams as needed.
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