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Job Title: Gen AI Automation Tester Experience: 6-10 Years Location: Bangalore / Chennai Mode: WFO (5 days a week) Interview Mode: Virtual + F2F Job Summary We are looking for a skilled Automation Test Engineer with a strong coding foundation and growing exposure to Generative AI to join our QA team. The ideal candidate brings solid hands-on experience building test automation frameworks using Selenium or Playwright, a developer-grade coding mindset, and a keen interest in applying Gen AI techniques to modern testing challenges. Key Responsibilities - Design, build, and maintain robust test automation frameworks using Selenium or Playwright - Write clean, maintainable test code and contribute to shared framework libraries and utilities - Develop and execute functional, regression, and integration test suites for web and API-based applications - Explore and apply Gen AI tools and techniques to enhance test coverage, test data generation, and defect analysis - Collaborate with developers and AI/ML engineers to understand application behaviour and define testability requirements - Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and maintain pipeline health - Contribute to test data management strategies and validation approaches for AI-driven workflows - Participate in code reviews for test automation code and promote quality engineering best practices - Work with stakeholders to translate requirements into testable scenarios Required Skills & Qualifications - 6-10 years of overall experience in QA and Test Automation - Strong hands-on experience with Selenium or Playwright for UI and end-to-end automation - Solid programming skills in Python or Java comfortable building frameworks from scratch, not just writing scripts - Proven experience designing and maintaining page object models, utility libraries, and reusable test components - Valuable understanding of API testing using tools like REST Assured, Postman, or pytest - Familiarity with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI) and integrating test suites into pipelines - Exposure to Gen AI concepts such as using LLMs for test case generation, exploratory testing assistance, or log analysis Technical Expertise - Core: Selenium WebDriver / Playwright, Python or Java, pytest / TestNG / JUnit - API Testing: REST Assured, Postman, requests (Python) - Version Control & CI/CD: Git, Jenkins, GitHub Actions - Containerisation basics: Docker (ability to run tests in containers) - Gen AI Exposure: Familiarity with tools like ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, or similar for testing use cases; awareness of LLM-based application behaviour and how to validate it - Basic understanding of prompt engineering and how LLM outputs can be evaluated Good to Have - Exposure to performance testing tools (JMeter, Locust, k6) - Experience testing APIs built on LangChain or similar orchestration frameworks - Awareness of vector databases or RAG-based application architectures from a testing perspective - Familiarity with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) from a test environment setup standpoint - Knowledge of security testing fundamentals Soft Skills - Strong problem-solving and analytical mindset with a developer's approach to quality - Curious about emerging AI tools and eager to apply them in a testing context - Clear communicator who can articulate test coverage and quality risks to non-technical stakeholders - Comfortable working in agile, fast-paced, cooperative teams Why Join Us - Work alongside Gen AI engineers and get hands-on exposure to cutting-edge AI projects - Opportunity to grow from automation expertise into AI-native quality engineering - Collaborative, innovation-driven environment that invests in your learning and development Job Title: Gen AI Automation Tester Experience: 6-10 Years Location: Bangalore / Chennai Mode: WFO (5 days a week) Interview Mode: Virtual + F2F Job Summary We are looking for a skilled Automation Test Engineer with a strong coding foundation and growing exposure to Generative AI to join our QA team. The ideal candidate brings solid hands-on experience building test automation frameworks using Selenium or Playwright, a developer-grade coding mindset, and a keen interest in applying Gen AI techniques to modern testing challenges. Key Responsibilities - Design, build, and maintain robust test automation frameworks using Selenium or Playwright - Write clean, maintainable test code and contribute to shared framework libraries and utilities - Develop and execute functional, regression, and integration test suites for web and API-based applications - Explore and apply Gen AI tools and techniques to enhance test coverage, test data generation, and defect analysis - Collaborate with developers and AI/ML engineers to understand application behaviour and define testability requirements - Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and maintain pipeline health - Contribute to test data management strategies and validation
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