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The equipment that we create and service is essential to advancing AI and accelerating the commercialization of next-generation semiconductor chips. Join us and push the boundaries of materials science and engineering in a company at the foundation of the electronics industry. The work we do together advances the world’s technology.\nWhat We Offer\nLocation:\nBangalore,INDYou’ll benefit from a supportive work culture that encourages you to learn, develop, and grow your career as you take on challenges and drive innovative solutions for our customers. We empower our team to push the boundaries of what is possible-while learning every day in a supportive leading global company. Visit our Careers website to learn more.\nAt Applied Materials, we care about the health and wellbeing of our employees. We’re committed to providing programs and support that encourage personal and professional growth and care for you at work, at home, or wherever you may go. Learn more about our benefits.\nAutomation Technical Lead\nAbout Applied\nApplied Materials is the leader in materials engineering solutions used to produce virtually every new chip and advanced display in the world. Our expertise in modifying materials at atomic levels and on an industrial scale enables customers to transform possibilities into reality. At Applied Materials, our innovations make possible the technology shaping the future.\nApplied Materials India PrimeVision division (E-Beam Wafer Inspection) develops advanced semiconductor inspection solutions combining sophisticated hardware and software technologies. Our software organization is focused on delivering scalable, reliable, and high-quality software solutions that support next-generation inspection platforms\nAs part of our transformation towards modern microservices-based architectures, we are looking for an experienced Automation Technical Lead to define and drive the automation strategy, framework architecture, and quality engineering standards across multiple product teams. This role will be instrumental in building scalable automation capabilities and enabling high-quality software delivery across all testing layers.\nOur Team\nWe are a 60+ member software engineering organization with a strong focus on delivering reliable, scalable, and high-quality software solutions. Our Quality Engineering organization consists of Automation and QA engineers responsible for ensuring software quality across the development lifecycle.\nAs we modernize our applications into cloud-native and microservices-based platforms, we are investing in reusable automation frameworks, common quality engineering practices, and scalable test architectures that enable teams to deliver faster while maintaining high quality standards.\nKey Focus of the Role: Define and drive Automation Test Architecture, Framework Strategy, Standardization, Quality Governance, and Automation Enablement for a modern microser vices ecosystem, while ensuring high-quality engineering standards across Component, Integration, API and End-to-End testing layers.\nRoles and Responsibilities\nAutomation Strategy & Leadership\nDefine and own the Automation Testing strategy across microservices-based platforms.\n\nEstablish automation standards, best practices, governance models, and quality engineering guidelines.\n\nDrive adoption of consistent automation approaches across multiple product teams.\n\nMentor engineering teams on effective use of Generative AI and AI-assisted development tools within automation workflows.\n\nIdentify opportunities where AI can reduce automation maintenance costs and improve overall test coverage.\n\nAutomation Architecture & Framework Design\nDefine automation architecture supporting Component, Integration, API and End-to-End testing.\n\nDesign and evolve reusable automation frameworks, shared libraries, utilities, and common testing services.\n\nDrive framework standardization and commonality across teams to maximize scalability.\n\nEstablish test automation design principles that ensure scalability, maintainability, reliability, and efficiency.\n\nEnsure automation solutions provide strong debuggability, reporting, traceability, and execution visibility.\n\nQuality Enablement\nDefine testing strategies and quality standards for distributed and microservices-based applications.\n\nEstablish best practices for API testing, service integration testing and end-to-end validation.\n\nDefine automation approaches for applications deployed on Docker and Kubernetes platforms.\n\nPartner with Development, QA, DevOps, and Platform Engineering teams to improve product testability and automation readiness.\n\nRecommend and drive improvements that increase automation effectiveness, framework reuse, and quality consistency across services.\n\nAutomation Technical Leadership\nMentor and guide Automation Engineers and Technical Leads on automation architecture and quality engineering practices.\n\nLead technical reviews for automation frameworks, test strategies, and quality initiatives.\n\nEvaluate and recommend tools, technologies, and methodologies to improve automation capabilities.\n\nPresent automation strategy, quality status, and roadmap updates to engineering leadership.\n\nInfluence organizational adoption of automation standards and engineering excellence practices.\n\nOur Ideal Candidate\nOverall 8+ years of experience in Software Quality Engineering and Test Automation.\n\nMinimum 3+ years of experience leading enterprise-scale automation initiatives.\n\nProven experience defining automation architecture and enterprise automation frameworks.\n\nStrong understanding of how AI can improve test design, test generation, maintenance, defect analysis, and productivity.\n\nDeep expertise across Component, Integration, API and End-to-End testing.\n\nStrong knowledge of microservices architectures and distributed systems testing.\n\nExperience building reusable automation platforms and common testing capabilities used by multiple teams.\n\nStrong understanding of CI/CD, Continuous Testing, DevOps, and Shift-Left Quality practices.\n\nExperience defining automation solutions for containerized environments using Docker and Kubernetes.\n\nProficiency in Java, Python, and/or TypeScript.\n\nExperience with Playwright and modern automation technologies.\n\nExcellent problem-solving, analytical, communication, mentoring, and stakeholder management skills.\n\nAbility to influence technical direction and drive quality engineering adoption across teams.\n\nQualifications\nBachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electronics Engineering, Information Technology, or related technical discipline.\n\nAdditional Advantage\nKnowledge of modern software delivery and release practices.\n\nSemiconductor domain experience is an added advantage.\n\nTechnologies We Are Using\nProgramming Languages: Java, TypeScript\nSource Control: Git\nTest Automation Frameworks\nPlaywright (TypeScript), REST Assured, TestNG, Junit, REST API Testing, gRPC Testing\n\nContainer & Platform Technologies\nDocker, Kubernetes, Helm\n\nCI/CD & Quality Gates\nJenkins, GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps\n\nTest Management & Quality Engineering Tools\nJira, Xray, Reportportal\n\nAdditional Information\nTime Type:\nFull timeEmployee Type:\nAssignee / 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