Job Title: Senior Automation Engineer
Location: Bengaluru (Hybrid)
Experience: 7–10 years
Employment Type: Full-time
Role summary
Quality leader who sets the automation vision and executes it across teams using Playwright (TypeScript), strong API automation, Git, GitLab CI/CD, and Jira/Xray.
What you’ll do
· Set and deliver the automation strategy & roadmap (12–24 months): test pyramid balance, shift-left approach, non-functional checks in CI, and clear business outcomes, objectives and key results.
· Identify opportunities for automation,
· Define and enforce standards for Playwright/TypeScript (project structure, fixtures, page objects, assertions), API testing (schema/contract rules, backward-compatibility), Git (branch policies), and CI (required jobs, smoke packs).
· Establish governance: ownership/RACI for frameworks and high-risk flows, change control for shared libraries, cross-team reviews, and quality gates in GitLab (lint/typecheck, unit/contract/E2E thresholds, flaky-test quarantine).
· Codify policies: test data, secrets management for test runs, release readiness/sign-off criteria in Jira/Xray, pipeline SLOs and escalation routes.
· Architect the platform: evolve the Playwright/TypeScript framework, sharding/parallelism, caching, trace/HAR capture, non-functional and cost/performance optimisation in GitLab CI.
· Make quality measurable: build failure taxonomy, dashboards, and risk-based coverage in Xray/Jira to give exec-level release signals.
· Enable the org: mentor engineers, run internal workshops, lead design reviews, and align with client Product/Platform/Security on testability and observability.