Software Test Engineer III - Automation Testing
First seen by Alion on Oct 4, 2026.
Responsibilities :
- Validate complex system workflows across UI, API, and backend layers, ensuring correctness, reliability, and consistency of every release.
- Enhance and maintain the existing Playwright automation framework, expanding UI/API coverage and improving reliability, flakiness detection, and execution efficiency.
- Build internal QA tools, improve test data workflows, and contribute to CI/CD quality gates and overall pipeline readiness.
- Develop and maintain test infrastructure for containerized and distributed environments (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Conduct performance, load, and scalability testing for high-traffic services using k6 or similar tools.
- Collaborate closely with engineering, product, LeadGen, Payments, and design teams to embed quality early in the lifecycle.
- Analyze failures across distributed systems using observability platforms (logs, metrics, dashboards) to identify root causes quickly.
- Advocate for shift-left quality and influence system design and architecture for better testability.
- Maintain accurate documentation and onboarding materials for frameworks, tooling, and best practices.
Requirements :
- 4+ years of experience in software testing or automation for SaaS, web applications, or distributed systems.
- Expertise in enhancing and maintaining automation frameworks (Playwright or equivalent).
- Proficiency in TypeScript, JavaScript, or Python for scalable automation development.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and containerized infrastructure (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Working knowledge of AWS or GCP environments.
- Deep understanding of RESTful API testing, backend validation, mocks/stubs, and integration testing.
- Experience with performance and load testing tools like k6, Locust, or JMeter.
- Familiarity with observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, or OpenTelemetry.
- Strong debugging skills, especially in distributed and microservices-based architectures.
- E-Commerce domain experience (preferred but optional).
- Basic knowledge of AI-driven testing techniques or LLM-based test generation.
- Excellent communication, documentation, and problem-solving abilities.
Nice to Have :
1. Experience validating E-Commerce flows such as checkout, order lifecycle, payments, taxes, pricing rules, and inventory synchronisation.
2. Experience analysing and testing AI/LLM-powered features, including prompt validation, hallucination detection, model consistency checks, and AI-assisted testing workflows.
Skills
Software Quality Assurance, Testing, Automation Testing, Application Testing, Javascript, Python, Playwright Testing, API Testing