Senior Automation QA Engineer

Ciklum is looking for a Senior Automation QA Engineer to join our team full-time in India.

We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational organizations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live.

About the role:

As a Senior Automation QA Engineer , become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experiences of tomorrow. We are looking for a Senior Automation QA Engineer with strong hands-on expertise in C#/.NET, Playwright, Selenium, API automation, and Azure DevOps to build scalable automation frameworks and drive quality engineering across UI, API, and database layers. The role also involves leveraging AI tools and LLM-based solutions to improve test automation, productivity, and defect analysis.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable C#/.NET automation frameworks for UI, API, and database testing
• Develop robust automated tests using Playwright, Selenium, RestSharp/HttpClient, NUnit, and SpecFlow/Reqnroll
• Drive parallel and async test execution to reduce regression time and improve test stability
• Define automation strategies at Epic, Feature, and PBI levels, with a focus on risk-based testing and critical business flows
• Integrate automated testing into Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, including quality gates and automated reporting
• Analyze and reduce flaky tests, pipeline failures, and test-environment issues
• Leverage GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, and custom GPT/LLM agents for test generation, code review, defect analysis, and automation acceleration
• Develop AI prompts/agents and track AI-driven automation productivity and adoption metrics
• Perform database validation using SQL Server/PostgreSQL and support API, performance, accessibility, and security testing
• Use Docker, Splunk/Datadog, and application logs for test execution and root-cause analysis
• Mentor QA Engineers/SDETs on automation architecture, coding standards, design patterns, and AI-assisted testing
• Collaborate closely with developers, Product Owners, and other stakeholders within an Agile environment

Requirements:

• C# / .NET Core / .NET 8+
• Playwright, Selenium WebDriver
• REST API, RestSharp, HttpClient
• NUnit, SpecFlow/Reqnroll
• SQL Server / PostgreSQL
• Azure DevOps, Git, Jenkins/GitLab CI
• Docker & CI/CD
• Page Object Model, Dependency Injection, Factory patterns
• GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, LLM/AI agents