Job Summary
We are seeking a Test Automation Lead with 8–12 years of experience in Quality Engineering and Automation Testing. The ideal
candidate will have strong expertise in Playwright, Selenium, Java, and
Python, along with hands-on experience in AI-enabled automation. The
role involves leading automation framework development, mentoring team members,
and driving AI adoption to improve test efficiency and quality.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable automation
frameworks using Playwright and Selenium.
- Develop automation scripts using Java and Python.
- Lead automation initiatives and mentor a team of
automation engineers.
- Integrate automation suites with Azure
DevOps/Jenkins CI/CD pipelines.
- Implement AI-enabled automation capabilities such as
script generation, self-healing, intelligent test data generation, and
failure analysis.
- Collaborate with development, business, and QA teams in
Agile environments.
- Conduct code reviews and ensure automation best
practices.
Required Skills
- 8–12 years of QA/Automation experience with 3+ years
in a Lead role.
- Strong hands-on experience in Playwright, Selenium
WebDriver, Java, and Python.
- Experience with TestNG/PyTest, API automation
(REST Assured/Postman), Git, Maven, and SQL.
- Hands-on experience with AI-assisted testing tools such
as GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT/OpenAI, Microsoft Copilot, Cursor AI, Claude,
or similar.
- Experience building reusable automation frameworks and
integrating with CI/CD pipelines.
- Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder
management skills.
Nice to Have
- Experience with Appium, accessibility testing,
performance testing, BrowserStack/Perfecto, and cloud-based test
automation platforms.
- Exposure to Agentic AI and modern Quality Engineering
practices.
Skills Required
- 8-12 years of QA and automation experience
- 3+ years of experience in a lead role
- Strong hands-on experience with Playwright
- Strong hands-on experience with Selenium WebDriver
- Strong hands-on experience with Java
- Strong hands-on experience with Python
- Experience with TestNG or PyTest
- Experience with API automation using REST Assured or Postman
- Experience with Git, Maven, and SQL
- Experience with AI-assisted testing tools such as GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT/OpenAI, Microsoft Copilot, Cursor AI, Claude, or similar
- Experience building reusable automation frameworks
- Experience integrating automation with CI/CD pipelines
- Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills
- Experience with Appium
- Experience with accessibility testing
- Experience with performance testing
- Experience with BrowserStack, Perfecto, or cloud-based test automation platforms
- Exposure to Agentic AI and modern Quality Engineering practices
What We Do
Kumaran Systems is an IT Services Company with imprints in three countries. The past two decades has seen us provide our global clientele with high-end IT services that include migration support, system integration and infrastructure management solutions, providing one-stop-solution to all your IT demands. Our expertise and in-depth knowledge of businesses help us cater to a variety of industries. Our team strives to know your industry better, by observing current trends and the way it works, to tailor-make our solutions to your needs.With over 20 years of customer orientation, over 2000 engagements across Telecom, Education and Banking & Financial services spread across the globe, Kumaran stands as a key advisor to some of the largest Fortune 500 companies in their business driven technology enablement drive. Kumaran System's Customer Orientation is driven by a global delivery business model giving its customers to choose between an Onshore-Offshore mix. The delivery models enable multilevel touch points between the client, partner networks and Kumaran thereby enabling business driven customer sensitivity and agility. ENGAGE, EMERGE AND EXCEL Involving ourselves in a purposeful action, using our abilities to its maximum, helps us feel positive about ourselves. Such positivity gives raise to positive thinking and positive ideas. Ideas evolve into vision and set our aim! Our aspirations engage us with the incentive of sweet success! Every endeavor has its own pitfalls. Perseverance helps us emerge a successful entrepreneur after any deterrent. In our attempt to achieve our aim, we keep upgrading our knowledge and skill, to surface successful! A genius mind does not work to excel, but excels in work! We challenge ourselves with every next step! We change every deterrent to a stepping stone to success. We essentially, engage, emerge and excel
