Senior Automation Test Engineer

Join Accenture and help transform leading organizations and communities across global industries such as banking, insurance, natural resources, and high-tech. As part of our team, you will contribute to delivering innovative, high-quality, and reliable solutions through comprehensive testing and automation practices.

With expertise across multiple testing types including functional, integration, API, regression, and automation testing, you will play a key role in ensuring software quality throughout the development lifecycle. The scale of our capabilities, client engagements, and collaborative approach provide unmatched opportunities to grow and excel. Choose Accenture and make delivering impactful work a defining part of your extraordinary career.

Key Responsibilities:

As a Senior Automation Test Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring the quality, reliability, and efficiency of software applications through both manual and automated testing practices.

• Independently manage and execute comprehensive testing activities with minimal supervision.
• Estimate, prioritize, plan, and coordinate testing efforts to meet project timelines and quality objectives.
• Perform requirements analysis, test case design, test execution, results analysis, and detailed reporting.
• Develop, maintain, and optimize automated testing frameworks and scripts to improve testing efficiency and coverage.
• Identify suitable test cases for automation and contribute to the overall automation strategy.
• Conduct API, web services, desktop, and web application testing using tools such as Postman and SoapUI.
• Review test scripts, plans, and reports to ensure quality and alignment with project requirements.
• Identify, document, track, and support resolution of defects while investigating root causes of software issues.
• Contribute to project risk assessment, risk tracking, and mitigation planning.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to uphold quality standards throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Support and enhance CI/CD pipeline integration and automation processes.
• Track and analyze QA metrics such as test execution progress, defect density, and defect status.
• Participate actively in agile ceremonies including sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, and QA demos.
• Stay up to date with industry trends, testing tools, and automation technologies, recommending improvements where appropriate.
• Provide proactive feedback and continuous improvement suggestions throughout the testing lifecycle.

Required Skills & Experience:

• 3+ years of experience in software testing and quality assurance.
• Strong analytical, communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Curiosity, adaptability, willingness to learn, and ability to work effectively in uncertain or evolving environments.
• Strong understanding of software QA methodologies, testing processes, and development lifecycles.
• Experience with test automation tools such as Selenium and/or Katalon Studio.
• Experience with API and web service testing using tools like Postman and SoapUI.
• Experience with Desktop and Web application testing.
• Familiarity with BrowserStack or similar cross-browser testing platforms.
• Knowledge of SQL scripting.
• Experience with Source Control systems such as Git and implementation of Page Object Model (POM).
• Understanding of CI/CD pipeline orchestration and automation integration.
• Experience with test and project management tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira, XRAY, Confluence, or equivalent platforms.

Academic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Applied Computing, or any related IT field.

Preferred Qualifications

• ISTQB certification or other automation testing certifications are an advantage.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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