Test Automation Engineer
Barclays · Pune · Posted 2026-07-18
Tech stack: AWS, Docker, Jenkins, Kubernetes
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About the role
To design, develop, and execute testing strategies to validate functionality, performance, and user experience, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve defects, and continuously improve testing processes and methodologies, to ensure software quality and reliability.
Responsibilities:
- Development and implementation of comprehensive test plans and strategies to validate software functionality and ensure compliance with established quality standards.
- Creation and execution automated test scripts, leveraging testing frameworks and tools to facilitate early detection of defects and quality issues. .
- Collaboration with cross-functional teams to analyse requirements, participate in design discussions, and contribute to the development of acceptance criteria, ensuring a thorough understanding of the software being tested.
- Root cause analysis for identified defects, working closely with developers to provide detailed information and support defect resolution.
- Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
- Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations, and actively contribute to the organization's technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
Qualifications:
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable test automation frameworks (e.g., Playwright, Selenium, Cucumber/BDD) to enable efficient and reusable regression testing across applications
- Develop and execute automated functional, regression, API, and end-to-end test suites using tools such as Playwright, Selenium, RestAssured, Postman, and Karate
- Integrate automation suites into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab) to enable continuous testing, faster feedback, and improved release quality
- Collaborate with developers, product owners, and functional testers to understand requirements, design test scenarios, and ensure end-to-end validation of fraud journeys and business flows
- Build and maintain test data management solutions, stubs, and environment dependencies to ensure stability of automation execution across non-production environments
- Analyze test results, identify defects, and track them using tools like JIRA/Xray, ensuring timely closure and improved product quality
- Drive automation coverage improvements, shift-left testing practices, and continuous framework enhancements to reduce manual effort and prevent production defects.
- Excellent communication skills – verbal & written
- Self-motivated, passionate, well-organized individual with demonstrated problem solving skills Experience in building distributed Machine Learning systems
- Familiarity with cloud technologies: OpenShift, AWS
- Knowledge of DevOps practices, tools and automation: Chef, Jenkins
- Experience with Docker/Kubernetes and development of containerized applications
- Experience with project management tools: Rally, JIRA, Confluence, Stash
- You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as experience with, skills to meet business requirement as well as job-specific skillsets.
- This role will be based out of Pune.
Qualifications
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable test automation frameworks (e.g., Playwright, Selenium, Cucumber/BDD) to enable efficient and reusable regression testing across applications
- Develop and execute automated functional, regression, API, and end-to-end test suites using tools such as Playwright, Selenium, RestAssured, Postman, and Karate
- Integrate automation suites into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab) to enable continuous testing, faster feedback, and improved release quality
- Collaborate with developers, product owners, and functional testers to understand requirements, design test scenarios, and ensure end-to-end validation of fraud journeys and business flows
- Build and maintain test data management solutions, stubs, and environment dependencies to ensure stability of automation execution across non-production environments
- Analyze test results, identify defects, and track them using tools like JIRA/Xray, ensuring timely closure and improved product quality
- Drive automation coverage improvements, shift-left testing practices, and continuous framework enhancements to reduce manual effort and prevent production defects.
- Excellent communication skills – verbal & written
- Self-motivated, passionate, well-organized individual with demonstrated problem solving skills
- Experience in building distributed Machine Learning systems
- Familiarity with cloud technologies: OpenShift, AWS
- Knowledge of DevOps practices, tools and automation: Chef, Jenkins
- Experience with Docker/Kubernetes and development of containerized applications
- Experience with project management tools: Rally, JIRA, Confluence, Stash
- You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as experience with, skills to meet business requirement as well as job-specific skillsets.
- This role will be based out of Pune.
Responsibilities
- Development and implementation of comprehensive test plans and strategies to validate software functionality and ensure compliance with established quality standards.
- Creation and execution automated test scripts, leveraging testing frameworks and tools to facilitate early detection of defects and quality issues..
- Collaboration with cross-functional teams to
- analyse requirements, participate in design discussions, and contribute to the development of acceptance criteria, ensuring a thorough understanding of the software being tested.
- Root cause analysis for identified defects, working closely with developers to provide detailed information and support defect resolution.
- Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
- Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations, and actively contribute to the organization's technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.