Role Overview
Early Career is hiring a senior-level Testing Automation Engineer. This is a full-time role in Chennai. Part of Early Career's Qa hiring. Full responsibilities, required qualifications, and the apply link are listed in the description below.
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Job Description
Trade Onboarding Technology is looking for a seasoned Intermediate Quality Analyst to plan, lead, and execute testing strategy for Supplier & Client Onboarding Application. This role requires a hands-on quality intermediate engineer who has architected robust automation frameworks, had sound experience in enhancing testing efficiency, and can ensure seamless software delivery of highest quality. The ideal candidate will bring expertise in automation tools, agile methodologies, and quality engineering best practices to transform and enhance current testing and automation engineering landscape.
Responsibilities
- Plan, lead, and execute testing automation strategy for Supplier/Client Onboarding. Continuously monitor automation coverage and enhance the existing automation framework to increase the automation coverage.
- Design, Develop, and Implement scalable and maintainable automation frameworks for UI, API, and data validation testing on Microservices platform.
- Collaborate with other testing areas, development teams, product owners, and business partners to integrate automation into the agile SDLC.
- Enhance the efficiency of regression, and end-to-end testing using automation.
- Develop robust test scripts and maintain automation suites to support rapid software releases.
- Improve overall test coverage, defect detection, and release quality through automation.
- Establish and track key QA metrics e.g. defect leakage, test execution efficiency, automation coverage.
- Advocate for best practices in test automation, including code reviews, re-usability and maintainability.
- Drive the adoption of AI/ML-based testing tools and emerging trends in test automation.
- Manage, mentor, and upskill a team of test engineers in automation practices.
- Foster a culture of continuous learning and innovation within the testing community.
- Define career development paths and ensure team members stay up to date with industry advancements.
- Analyze trends at an organizational level to improve processes; follows and analyzes industry trends.
- Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.
Qualifications
- 6+ years of experience in functional and non-functional software testing
- 5+ years of experience as Test Automation engineer
- Expertise in test automation frameworks / tools like Jenkins, Selenium, Cucumber, TestNG, Junit, Cypress.
- Strong programming skills in Java, Python or any other programming or scripting language.
- Expertise in SQL.
- Experience with API testing tools (Postman, RestAssured) and performance testing tools (JMeter, LoadRunner)
- Expertise in build tools like Maven / Gradle, continuous integration tools like Jenkins, Tekton, source management tools like Git/GitHub.
- Strong knowledge of Agile, Scrum, and DevOps practices.
- Strong knowledge of functional Test tool (JIRA).
- Familiarity with Spring boot framework and database testing automation (Oracle, SQL).
- Preferred - Experience with AI-driven test automation and advanced test data management strategies
- Preferred – Certifications such as ISTQB Advanced, Certified Agile Tester, or Selenium WebDriver certification
- Exposure to banking / financial domains, particularly Treasury Trade applications is a plus
- Requires communication and diplomacy skills and an ability to persuade and influence
- Hands on in code review, unit testing and integration testing
- Very Confident, innovative, self-motivated, aggressive and results oriented
- Ideal candidate should be passionate about automation in quality engineering
Education
- Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience
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Job Family Group:
Technology
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Job Family:
Technology Quality
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Time Type:
Full time
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Most Relevant Skills
Please see the requirements listed above.
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Other Relevant Skills
For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How do I apply for the Testing Automation Engineer position at Early Career?
Use the Apply button above to submit your application directly to Early Career. Most applications take less than 5 minutes if your resume and contact details are ready, and you'll be routed to the employer's official application system to finish.
Where is the Testing Automation Engineer position at Early Career located?
This position is based in Chennai. Early Career has not indicated remote or hybrid options for this role, so candidates should plan for on-site work.
What does a Testing Automation Engineer at Early Career earn?
Early Career has not disclosed a salary range in this posting. Many employers share specifics later in the interview process; you can also ask during a recruiter screen if compensation transparency is important to you.
When was the Testing Automation Engineer role at Early Career posted?
This role was posted on April 8, 2026 (61 days ago). It's still listed as actively hiring; we re-confirm openings against the source system multiple times per day and remove closed roles.
How much experience does the Testing Automation Engineer role at Early Career require?
This is a senior-level position. Most senior roles call for 5+ years of directly relevant experience. Early Career lists their specific requirements in the description below, so review the must-have qualifications closely before applying.
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