Senior Test Automation Engineer

Job Title: Senior Test Automation Engineer Notice Period: Immediate to 30 days Experience Required: 5+ Years Job Location: Pune/Hybrid About Accelirate Accelirate is a leading agentic AI and automation firm, building intelligent agents that transform enterprise operations. We’re a certified partner of Ui. Path, Microsoft, and Salesforce, with 1500+ processes automated annually across industries.

Honored as a Top Workplaces USA winner five years in a row, we’re known for delivering scalable, agent-driven solutions that empower humans, agents, and robots to work smarter together.

About the role

We are looking for a hands-on Senior Test Automation Engineer to own Playwright + Python UI automation for our web applications. You will build maintainable pytest-based frameworks, run them in CI on Azure Pipelines, keep the suite fast and reliable, and mentor junior engineers.

What you will do

Design and extend a Playwright + Python framework on pytest, using Page Object Model, fixtures and reusable utilities. Automate end-to-end UI tests from user stories and acceptance criteria, across Chromium, Firefox and Web. Kit. Build stable locator strategies and keep the flaky-test rate under 2%. Integrate suites into Azure Pipelines with parallel runs (pytest-xdist) and useful failure artifacts (traces, screenshots, videos).

Track tests and defects in Azure Boards and Test Plans, linked to user stories for traceability. Triage failures daily and report coverage, pass rate, execution time and flakiness each sprint. Review peers' automation code and mentor 1–3 junior engineers. What you bring Playwright (Python): built or substantially extended a framework; strong with the sync/async APIs, auto-waiting, locators, browser contexts, network interception/mocking, auth via storage state, and Trace Viewer.

Python: OOP, type hints, decorators, context managers, exception handling, virtual environments; clean, modular code checked with Ruff or Flake8 and Black. pytest: fixtures and scopes, conftest.py, markers, parametrization, pytest-playwright plugin, pytest-xdist, HTML/JUnit reporting. Azure DevOps and Git: Git in Azure Repos (branching, pull requests, code reviews, conflict resolution); YAML Pipelines, Boards and Test Plans; publishes test results to pipelines.

Testing fundamentals: test pyramid, test design techniques, risk-based prioritisation, basic SQL, Agile/Scrum. Clear communication and ownership; can explain a failure to a developer and a risk to a product owner. Good to have API testing with Python (requests, httpx or Playwright's APIRequest. Context). GitHub and GitHub Actions workflows.

Migration from Selenium to Playwright. BDD with pytest-bdd or Behave. Docker, Azure cloud basics, Allure reporting. Visual regression and accessibility testing (axe-core). AI-assisted testing: GitHub Copilot, Playwright MCP. ISTQB certification.

Education

B.E./B.Tech/MCA in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience. Why Join Us at Accelirate? At Accelirate, we’re committed to your professional growth from day one. Our culture of continuous learning, mentorship, and hands-on projects ensures you have the tools to innovate and thrive. We recognize and reward your hard work with performance bonuses and public recognition, celebrating your achievements at every step.

With a global focus, you'll collaborate with diverse teams, gaining exposure to international projects and expanding your horizons. Transparency, trust, and work-life balance are at the heart of what we do, ensuring you have the flexibility to prioritize what matters most.