Senior Test Automation Engineer

Role - Senior Test Automation Engineer : AI-Augmented Quality Engineering Experience: 7–10 years | Level: Senior IC (with technical-leadership & mentoring scope) | 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 - 7–10 years in QA / test automation, including 3+ years in a senior or lead capacity. - Strong programming in Python and/or TypeScript/JavaScript (Java a plus) 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.