Java Automation Engineer

Role Overview

Key Responsibilities

• Design, plan, and execute comprehensive test strategies including functional, regression, and integration testing.
  
• Participate actively in release cycles, validating builds in staging and pre -production environments, tracking defects, and ensuring release readiness.
  
• Collaborate with developers and product teams to understand requirements, review technical designs, and identify testability and risk areas early.
  
• Act as a primary point of contact for QA activities, communicating progress, blockers, and critical issues to stakeholders.
  
• Lead defect triaging, ensuring issues are well -documented, reproducible, and prioritized effectively.
  
• Develop and maintain automated test frameworks using Java, JUnit/TestNG, and related tools.
  
• Conduct code reviews for test scripts and establish best practices and coding standards within the QA team.
  
• Participate in Agile ceremonies (sprint planning, stand -ups, retrospectives) and provide accurate testing estimates.
  
• Monitor test execution, generate test reports and metrics, and present insights to both technical and non -technical stakeholders.
  
• Stay updated with emerging testing tools, frameworks, and AI -driven practices, recommending improvements to the automation ecosystem.
  
• Prepare technical documentation and provide support for production systems.
  
  

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in Core Java (OOP, multithreading, collections, exception handling, design patterns).
  
• Hands -on experience with Spring & Spring Boot for building scalable applications.
  
• Experience with Maven or Gradle for build and dependency management.
  
• Knowledge of databases: Relational - MySQL, PostgreSQL/ NoSQL - MongoDB, Redis
  
• Experience with JPA (Java Persistence API) for ORM and transaction management.
  
• Strong debugging skills using tools like IntelliJ Debugger, JVisualVM, or JProfiler.
  
• Solid experience in writing automated tests using JUnit/TestNG, including unit, integration, and data -driven testing.
  
• Familiarity with Mockito or similar frameworks for mocking.
  
• Strong understanding of testing methodologies (unit, integration, regression).
  
• Experience with Test -Driven Development (TDD).
  
  

Good to Have

• Experience with Selenium WebDriver for UI/end -to -end automation.
  
• Exposure to AI -assisted development tools and prompt engineering.
  
• Understanding of AI limitations, including hallucinations and bias handling.