Senior QA Automation Engineer

Automation Framework Architecture & Development ● Design, build, and maintain a scalable Java-based test automation framework using Playwright for UI and REST Assured for API testing. ● Establish framework architecture decisions: project structure, base classes, page object model, test data management, reporting, self-healing and retry logic. ● Define and enforce automation coding standards, naming conventions, and documentation practices. ● Build reusable utility libraries for common actions: authentication flows, environment configuration, database queries, and assertion helpers. ● Ensure framework supports parallel execution, cross-environment configuration, and CI/CD integration from day one.

UI Test Automation (Playwright + Java) ● Implement end-to-end UI test suites covering critical GRP workflows: budget execution, expenditure processing, treasury payments, and revenue collection. ● Apply Page Object Model (POM) pattern to ensure test maintainability as the UI evolves. ● Handle complex JSF-based UI interactions including dynamic forms, multi-step workflows, modals, and data grids. ● Build smoke and regression suites that can be triggered automatically on each build artifact. ● Manage test data setup and teardown strategies to ensure test isolation and repeatability.

API Test Automation (REST Assured + Java) ● Design and implement comprehensive REST API test suites covering GRP service endpoints across all functional modules. ● Validate API contracts: request/response schema, status codes, error handling, authentication, and data integrity. ● Build data-driven API tests that cover boundary conditions, negative scenarios, and multi-step transactional flows. ● Integrate API tests as a fast-feedback layer in the CI pipeline, running on every Trunk commit independently of UI tests. ● Collaborate with back-end developers to define testable API contracts and flag integration issues early.

CI/CD Integration ● Integrate automated test suites into the existing Jenkins CI pipeline, triggering appropriate test layers on each build. ● Configure test execution stages: smoke on commit, regression on Code Freeze, full suite on release candidate. ● Implement test reporting and failure notification so the team receives actionable feedback without manual monitoring. ● Work with the DevOps team to manage test environment provisioning and ensure automation runs reliably across environments. ● Maintain pipeline stability: monitor flaky tests, enforce quarantine processes, and drive flakiness reduction.

Test Coverage Strategy ● Collaborate with the QA Lead and Manual QA Engineers to identify and prioritize automation candidates based on risk, frequency, and regression value. ● Build and maintain an automation coverage map showing which manual test cases have been automated, which are in progress, and which remain manual. ● Define and track key automation metrics: coverage percentage, execution time, pass rate, and flakiness rate by module. ● Contribute to shift-left testing practices by enabling developers to run smoke suites locally before committing.

Cross-Team Collaboration ● Partner with Manual QA Engineers to convert high-value regression test cases into automated equivalents. ● Work with Functional Analysts to understand business workflows deeply enough to write reliable automation for complex multi-module flows. ● Participate in sprint planning and backlog refinement, estimating automation effort and flagging testability concerns during requirements review. ● Support developers in understanding test failures and distinguishing automation issues from genuine application defects

Mentorship & Continuous Improvement ● Mentor Manual QA Engineers interested in developing automation skills. ● Conduct code reviews on automation contributions from other team members. ● Continuously evaluate new tools, libraries, and practices that can improve framework efficiency or coverage quality. ● Document framework onboarding guides to enable team members to contribute automation without deep framework expertise.