Senior Associate 2 (Test Architect)

Experience: Minimum 8 years in software testing, including at least 6 years of deep hands-on experience in API and Web automation solving a wide range of complex, real-world quality engineering and automation challenges.

Work Location-Bagmane constellation business park sapient

Interview location-Bagmane constellation business park sapient

Role & responsibilities

• Design and build test automation frameworks from scratch and evolve them through continuous improvements, scalability enhancements, CI/CD integration, and long-term maintenance.
  
• Engineer solutions using

  Java, Selenium, RestAssured, TestNG/JUnit, Maven/Gradle

  , and integrate automated pipelines using

  Jenkins/GitHub Actions

  .
• Implement advanced reporting with

  Allure/Extent

  , and develop robust utilities for

  logging, configuration management, and test data handling

  .

• Interact directly with clients to understand requirements, provide technical guidance, and represent the automation strategy.
  
• Lead a small team of automation engineers, drive best practices, and mentor junior members.
  
• Ensure high-quality, on-time delivery of automation solutions across sprints and releases.

Preferred candidate profile

• Around 6 years of hands-on experience in automation. Proven track record of

  building test automation frameworks from scratch

  on the Java stack. Ability to architect scalable, maintainable solutionsnot just write scripts.
• Strong grip on

  Core Java, OOP, Collections, Streams, design patterns

  . Hands-on with

  Selenium, RestAssured, TestNG/JUnit, Maven/Gradle

  .
• Experience developing custom utilities, reporting plugins, wrappers, and reusable modules.
  
• Real-world experience integrating frameworks with

  Jenkins/GitHub Actions

  . Understanding of pipelines, parallel execution, environment handling, and artifact management.
• Proved experience of guiding 3-4 automation engineers.
  
• Conduct code reviews, enforce best practices, and drive quality engineering culture.
  
• Comfortable interacting with clients, gathering requirements, presenting solutions, and explaining technical decisions.
  
• Ability to translate business needs into automation strategy.
  
• Someone who takes accountability for

  timely, high-quality delivery

  . Proactive with planning, estimation, and risk management.
• Looks at automation as a

  product

  continuously improving, optimizing, scaling, and stabilizing the framework.
• Strong debugging skills across UI, API, test data, environments, pipelines, and integrations.