Senior Test Automation Engineer

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Your Role

As an HR Test Lead / Xray Testing SME at Capgemini, you will lead end-to-end testing activities for HR technology initiatives, ensuring high-quality releases through structured test management, requirements traceability, defect governance, and reporting excellence. You will act as the subject matter expert for Jira and Xray, driving testing best practices across planning, execution, and release readiness.

This role requires strong experience in QA/Test Management, HR system implementations, stakeholder collaboration, and the ability to establish clear quality metrics, dashboards, and testing governance frameworks that provide transparency and confidence throughout the delivery lifecycle.

Responsibilities & Scope

• Lead end-to-end testing activities for HR projects, from test planning through execution and release validation.
• Serve as the primary SME for Jira and Xray, configuring and managing test repositories, test cycles, traceability, and reporting.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive test strategies, test plans, test cases, and test execution schedules.
• Ensure full requirements-to-test traceability, providing visibility across business requirements, test coverage, defects, and release readiness.
• Coordinate and oversee functional, integration, regression, and user acceptance testing activities.
• Establish and maintain testing dashboards, KPIs, metrics, and executive-level reporting.
• Manage defect lifecycle processes, ensuring timely triage, prioritization, resolution tracking, and stakeholder communication.
• Collaborate closely with HR business teams, product owners, developers, and project managers to ensure quality objectives are achieved.
• Identify testing risks, dependencies, and quality gaps, proactively driving mitigation plans.
• Promote testing best practices, standardization, and continuous improvement across teams and programs.

Your Profile

• Quality-focused leader with strong ownership, accountability, and delivery excellence.
• Deep expertise in Jira and Xray for test management, execution tracking, traceability, and reporting.
• Strong understanding of test governance, defect management, and release quality assurance processes.
• Data-driven communicator capable of translating testing insights into meaningful dashboards and executive updates.
• Collaborative stakeholder partner with experience working across business, HR, and technology teams.
• Continuous improvement mindset with a focus on process optimization, transparency, and measurable quality outcomes.

Job Description

As Test Automation Engineer, you are involved in the automated verification and validation of products made by engineers in a development process. Your technical and professional knowledge of Test Automation, programming, test environments and methodologies is solid. With your knowledge and experience with one or more test tools and test techniques, you can independently design and execute test automation solutions. You follow the latest developments in your field and you know what is going on.

Job Description - Grade Specific

As a QA Automation Expert, you are expected to develop automation solutions, create tools strategy, create automation approach, evaluate tools, perform technical feasibility, build business cases ROI and estimate automation effort. You are expected to implement automation solutions in different projects and deliver costoreffort savings to customer. You are expected to work independently, if required, to provide consultancy services to customers.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Software Testing, Quality Assurance, or Test Management.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with Jira and Xray as primary testing tools.
• Proven experience leading testing efforts for HR systems, HR transformations, or enterprise application implementations.
• Strong knowledge of test planning, test execution, requirements traceability, and defect management.
• Experience creating testing metrics, dashboards, and quality reporting for senior stakeholders.
• Ability to coordinate multiple testing workstreams and manage competing priorities.
• Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments.

Primary Tools

• Jira
• Xray
• Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
• Reporting and dashboarding tools as required

Success Measures

• Reliable HR testing execution across programs and releases.
• Complete requirements-to-test traceability.
• Accurate and actionable testing dashboards and reporting.
• Disciplined defect management and governance.
• Clear release readiness assessments and quality visibility for stakeholders.

What You'll Love

• Exposure to top global companies working with Capgemini.
• Opportunities to lead quality assurance initiatives that support critical HR transformations.
• Collaboration with global teams and enterprise-scale programs.
• Career development opportunities, certifications, and continuous learning programs.
• A culture focused on innovation, inclusion, and professional growth.

Need to Know

• Career Development in Spanish & English: Training, certifications, and mentorship programs available in both languages to support bilingual growth.
• Community Engagement: Participate in local volunteering initiatives, tech meetups, and cultural events that connect you with the Capgemini community.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organizations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of over 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end to8 end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations.

At Capgemini Mexico, we aim to attract the best talent and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment, so there is no discrimination based on race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic of a person. All applications welcome and will be considered based on merit against the job and/or experience for the position.