Senior Test Automation Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 9, 2026. First seen by Alion on Nov 3, 2026.
Job Title: Senior Test Automation Engineer
Notice Period: Immediate to 30 days
Experience Required: 5+ Years
Job Location: Pune/Hybrid
About the role
We are looking for a hands-on Senior Test Automation Engineer to own Playwright + Python UI automation for our web applications. You will build maintainable pytest-based frameworks, run them in CI on Azure Pipelines, keep the suite fast and reliable, and mentor junior engineers.
What you will do
Design and extend a Playwright + Python framework on pytest, using Page Object Model, fixtures and reusable utilities.
Automate end-to-end UI tests from user stories and acceptance criteria, across Chromium, Firefox and WebKit.
Build stable locator strategies and keep the flaky-test rate under 2%.
Integrate suites into Azure Pipelines with parallel runs (pytest-xdist) and useful failure artifacts (traces, screenshots, videos).
Track tests and defects in Azure Boards and Test Plans, linked to user stories for traceability.
Triage failures daily and report coverage, pass rate, execution time and flakiness each sprint.
Review peers' automation code and mentor 1-3 junior engineers.
What you bring
Playwright (Python): built or substantially extended a framework; strong with the sync/async APIs, auto-waiting, locators, browser contexts, network interception/mocking, auth via storage state, and Trace Viewer.
Python: OOP, type hints, decorators, context managers, exception handling, virtual environments; clean, modular code checked with Ruff or Flake8 and Black.
pytest: fixtures and scopes, conftest.py, markers, parametrization, pytest-playwright plugin, pytest-xdist, HTML/JUnit reporting.
Azure DevOps and Git: Git in Azure Repos (branching, pull requests, code reviews, conflict resolution); YAML Pipelines, Boards and Test Plans; publishes test results to pipelines.
Testing fundamentals: test pyramid, test design techniques, risk-based prioritisation, basic SQL, Agile/Scrum.
Clear communication and ownership; can explain a failure to a developer and a risk to a product owner.
Good to have
API testing with Python (requests, httpx or Playwright's APIRequestContext).
GitHub and GitHub Actions workflows.
Migration from Selenium to Playwright.
BDD with pytest-bdd or Behave.
Docker, Azure cloud basics, Allure reporting.
Visual regression and accessibility testing (axe-core).
AI-assisted testing: GitHub Copilot, Playwright MCP.
ISTQB certification.
Education
B.E./B.Tech/MCA in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.