Senior Software Test Automation Engineer

Location: IND-Pune-Smartworks

Remote Type: Hybrid (8 days/month)

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Automation Developer III

Position Location: Pune

Automation Developer III to work out of our Pune, India office. 

The ideal candidate is highly technical and has a proven commitment to quality with a solid understanding of test concepts and automation experience to transition us from a manual testing practice to an automated testing practice.

POSITION:

• Design and implementation of the test automation strategy for multiple product development teams. Assist in doing code reviews.
• Mentor and coach technical team members.
• Hands-on contributor to build and enhance solutions to complex technical problems advancing test automation, continuous testing and continuous integration capabilities for product development teams.
• Ability to create scripts beyond record and playback. Specifically developing functions, adding control flow logic, loops etc. This code must be reusable, maintainable code.
• Work side-by-side with developers and functional testers to create test specifications from user stories and transform selected tests into an automated test suite.
• Translating existing manual regression test cases into automated tests.
• Building and executing tests to run on multiple environments using multiple browsers.
• Analyzing existing systems to find areas for improvement.
• Evolving automated test framework to achieve higher test throughout, with increased accessibility and test execution flexibility.
• Perform other non-specified tasks as assigned.
• Should be able to work on integration with CICD pipeline, Jira and other tools.
• Should be able to write the end-to-end integration test with C#

Essential Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
• 7+ years of development/ test automation experience, preferably with complex web applications.
• Strong knowledge of writing Integration test and UI test.
• Advanced technical troubleshooting, diagnosing and problem-solving skills.
• Strong test automation skills –C#, etc.
• Proficiency in .NET
• Experience with SQL programming and database technologies.
• Understanding of SaaS infrastructure and components (RDBMS, Web and Application Servers, Queues, Caching, etc.)
• Proficiency using MS Office productivity packages – Word, Excel, and Outlook.
• Demonstrated experience with Web Browser Technologies, e.g. HTML, HTTP
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming, design and debugging skills.
• Proven experience developing automated test framework, e.g. Visual Studio’s coded UI, unit tests.
• Must be self-motivated and take initiative in performing tasks and growing skills and knowledge.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions) for automated test execution and reporting.
• Hands-on with API testing tools like Postman, Rest Assured, or Swagger.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Working knowledge of Jira.
• Familiarity with software build and delivery process.
• Familiarity with Continuous Integration concepts and processes.
• Agile Software Development.

Our Interview Practices

To maintain a fair and genuine hiring process, we kindly ask that all candidates participate in interviews without the assistance of AI tools or external prompts. Our interview process is designed to assess your individual skills, experiences, and communication style. We value authenticity and want to ensure we’re getting to know you—not a digital assistant. To help maintain this integrity, we ask to remove virtual backgrounds and include in-person interviews in our hiring process. Please note that use of AI-generated responses or third-party support during interviews will be grounds for disqualification from the recruitment process.

Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process.