Automation Engineer - Playwright at US Bank in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IN

At U.S. Bancorp India, we’re on a journey to do our best. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bancorp India gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.

Job Description

Primary Responsibilities

Test Design & Execution

• Analyze user stories, acceptance criteria, technical designs, and business requirements to define effective test scenarios.
• Create, maintain, and execute functional, regression, integration, API, UI, smoke, and exploratory test cases.
• Ensure traceability between requirements, test cases, test execution, and defects.
• Participate in backlog refinement, sprint planning, design reviews, and release readiness discussions to identify quality risks early.

Test Automation

• Develop and maintain automated tests using modern automation frameworks such as Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, KarateDSL, REST-assured, or similar tools.
• Contribute reusable automation components, utilities, test data patterns, and framework improvements.
• Increase automation coverage across UI, API, integration, smoke, and regression suites.
• Improve test reliability by identifying flaky tests, reducing false failures, and optimizing execution time.

CI/CD & Continuous Testing

• Integrate automated tests into build and deployment pipelines in partnership with engineering and DevOps teams.
• Support quality gates by ensuring critical automated tests run consistently before release or deployment.
• Review pipeline results, investigate failures, and communicate quality risks to the team.
• Contribute to continuous testing practices that support faster feedback and improved delivery predictability.

Defect Management & Quality Metrics

• Log clear, actionable defects with reproduction steps, evidence, severity, and expected results.
• Partner with developers and product owners to triage, prioritize, retest, and close defects.
• Support root cause analysis for escaped defects and recurring quality issues.
• Track and communicate quality indicators such as pass rates, defect trends, automation coverage, and release risk.

Production Readiness & Reliability

• Support release validation, deployment verification, smoke testing, and production readiness activities.
• Participate in incident review or post-release validation when quality gaps are identified.
• Help improve test coverage based on production findings, customer-impacting issues, and operational risk.
• Validate reliability, performance, scalability, and resiliency expectations where applicable.

Compliance, Risk & Governance

• Follow enterprise quality engineering standards, security requirements, and regulatory expectations.
• Maintain accurate testing artifacts and evidence to support audit readiness and control expectations.
• Validate data integrity, access controls, and workflow behavior where required by product or compliance needs.
• Escalate risks, blockers, test environment issues, and quality concerns in a timely manner.

Collaboration & Continuous Improvement

• Work closely with developers, product owners, architects, BAs, DevOps, and QE peers to embed quality throughout the SDLC.
• Contribute ideas to improve testing efficiency, team practices, automation maturity, and engineering productivity.
• Adopt modern quality engineering practices, including shift-left testing, automation-first delivery, and AI-assisted test productivity where appropriate.
• Share knowledge with team members through peer reviews, demos, documentation, and test walkthroughs.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of experience in software quality engineering, test automation, or SDET-focused roles.
• Hands-on experience designing and executing test cases for web, API, integration, and enterprise application workflows.
• Experience with Quality Engineer- .NET backend - Playwright automation.
• Experience with defect and test management tools such as Jira, VersionOne, TestRail, PractiTest, or similar platforms.
• Understanding of Agile delivery practices, CI/CD concepts, and modern DevOps quality practices.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and documentation skills.
• Experience in fostering early tech adoptions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience testing microservices, distributed systems, event-driven workflows, or payment/onboarding platforms.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience with performance, load, or resiliency testing tools and practices.
• Experience in financial services, payments, banking, healthcare, or other regulated technology environments.
• Exposure to accessibility testing, security testing concepts, test data management, or service virtualization.

Exposure to AI-assisted testing, automated test generation, or productivity tooling for QE teams

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.

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