Automation Test engineer- Selenium/playwright

Citi

Citi

Quality Assurance

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Posted on May 18, 2026

Job Description

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) with a strong background in banking and financial services, coupled with expertise in leveraging AI for test automation. The ideal candidate will play a critical role in ensuring the quality and reliability of our banking applications by designing, developing, and maintaining automated testing frameworks. This role requires a blend of technical proficiency, domain knowledge, and innovative thinking to drive efficiency and accuracy in testing processes.

Key Responsibilities:

Test Automation Development:

  • Design and implement robust, scalable, and maintainable test automation frameworks using AI-driven tools and technologies.
  • Develop automated test scripts for functional, regression testing of banking applications.
  • Ability to identify the scope and E2E delivery of Automation.
  • Maintenance of Automation framework and repository.

AI Integration:

  • Utilize AI and machine learning models to optimize test case generation, execution, and defect prediction.
  • Implement AI-based solutions for intelligent test data generation and anomaly detection.

Banking Domain Expertise:

  • Apply knowledge of banking processes, regulations, and workflows to ensure comprehensive test coverage.
  • Collaborate with business analysts and product owners to understand banking requirements and translate them into effective test strategies.

Quality Assurance:

  • Analyze requirements of projects, develop test plans, design test cases for broad range of systems and applications and ensure they meet specified standards and end-user requirements.
  • Ensure end-to-end quality of banking applications by identifying risks, creating test plans, and executing test cases.
  • Perform test data requirement, analysis, test data creation and conditioning
  • Monitor and report on test coverage, defect metrics, and overall application quality.
  • Serve as a SME and drive standards, compliance, strategic automation for development tools/frameworks to further improve architecture while driving value.

Collaboration:

  • Work closely with development teams to integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve issues early in the development lifecycle.

Continuous Improvement:

  • Stay updated with emerging AI technologies and testing tools to continuously enhance testing processes.
  • Drive innovation by introducing new methodologies and tools to improve efficiency and reduce manual effort.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

    Banking Domain Knowledge:

    • Strong understanding of banking workflows, financial products, and regulatory requirements.
    • Experience testing banking applications such as loan management systems, payment gateways, or risk management platforms.
    • Experience in using mainframe for testing and automation

    Automation/GenAI Expertise:

    • Experience in BDD/TDD, Cucumber framework development
    • Experience in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with tools like Jenkins.
    • Hands on experience in API testing tools like Postman or SOAPUI.
    • Understanding of deep learning fundamentals, RAG and LLMs
    • Experience of API development and integration of models through APIs.

    Soft Skills:

    • Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
    • Strong communication and collaboration abilities to work effectively with cross-functional teams.

    Education and Experience:

    • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
    • 5+ years of experience as an SDET or QA Automation Engineer, with at least 2 years in the banking domain.


    Education:

    • Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience


    This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

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    Job Family Group:

    Technology

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    Job Family:

    Applications Development

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    Time Type:

    Full time

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    Most Relevant Skills

    Please see the requirements listed above.

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    Other Relevant Skills

    For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

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