Senior Engineer - IT

Job Description:

• Mobile automation frameworks: Appium, Selenium.
• Good to have Espresso, Maestro, Hybrid IO, Playwright
• Programming languages: Java, Kotlin, Swift, or JavaScript.
• REST API testing and backend integration validation.
• CI/CD and DevOps tooling (Jenkins, Git, pipelines).
• Strong understanding of SDLC and automation-first delivery models.
• Use AI tools like GitHub Copilot, and test generators to accelerate script creation, refactoring, and documentation.
• Cloud Device farms and infrastructure: Browser Stack or AWS.

Required Qualifications

• 4 - 6 years of experience in software testing and quality engineering.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience in mobile automation testing. ‑on experience in mobile automation testing.
• Experience working in Agile / Scrum environments.
• Strong analytical, problem solving, and communication skills. ‑solving, and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently with guidance from Lead Engineers

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud-based device farms.‑based device farms
• Exposure to performance, security, or accessibility testing for mobile apps.
• Experience in financial services, insurance, or regulated domains is a plus.

• Design, develop, and maintain mobile automation test scripts and frameworks for iOS and Android applications.
• Execute automated functional, regression, smoke, and integration tests.
• Contribute to improving automation coverage, stability, and execution efficiency.
• Analyze test failures, identify root causes, and work with developers to resolve defects.
• Partner with mobile developers (iOS/Android) to improve testability and reduce defect leakage.
• Participate in sprint planning, backlog grooming, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Ensure test scenarios align with acceptance criteria and business requirements.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines to support continuous testing.
• Maintain test data, environments, and execution pipelines to ensure reliable runs.
• Follow Guardian’s automation standards, coding guidelines, and quality gates.
• Identify opportunities to enhance automation frameworks, tools, and processes.
• Contribute ideas to improve test efficiency, reliability, and release confidence.
• Support knowledge sharing and best practice adoption within the QA team.‑practice adoption within the QA team.
• Work Shift – will need to work in overlapping time zone with US at different intervals

Location:

This position can be based in any of the following locations:

Chennai

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