Senior Selenium Engineer

Overview:

Senior Selenium Engineer (8–10 years)

Responsibilities:

Key Responsibilities

Own and evolve Selenium-based UI automation frameworks (Java/Python + TestNG/JUnit/PyTest) for ICON applications.

Design reliable test data and environment strategies; stabilize flaky tests and reduce execution time.

Integrate automated tests into Thousand Eyes and GiTLab CI/CD pipelines.

Build observability and reporting capability (Thousand Eyes/Elasticsearch/Prometheus/Grafana).

Collaborate with development teams to define SLIs/SLOs and synthetic journeys for critical flows.

Implement Synthetic User Monitoring user journeys (login, search, transactions) for ICON applications.

Generate periodic reports on Synthetic User Journey for the solutions delivered (response time trend/Availability trend etc.).

Generate SOPs, Manuals and other relevant documents as needed.

Qualifications:

Required Qualifications

8–10 years of hands-on QA automation with at least 5 years in Selenium.

Strong coding skills in Java or Python; solid understanding of OOP, design patterns, and clean code for test automation.

Expertise with Selenium Grid/cloud execution.

Framework experience: TestNG/JUnit or PyTest; Page Object, Screenplay, or component-level patterns.

CI/CD integration experience (GitLab, GitHub Actions, Jenkins) including parallelization and test selection strategies.

Experience building synthetic monitoring scripts and journeys; ability to collaborate with Monitoring teams (Grafana/Thousand Eyes/Elasticsearch/AppDynamics).

Working knowledge of API testing (RestAssured/requests), message queues, and DB validation (SQL).

Proven track record stabilizing flaky suites and reducing MTTR in pre-prod and prod validations.

Desired skills:

Nice to Have

Knowledge of k6 and JMeter to correlate functional and performance signals.

Docker/Kubernetes experience for ephemeral test environments; service virtualization (WireMock/MockServer).

Security testing awareness (OWASP Top 10) and accessibility testing (axe-core/Deque).

Domain familiarity with Firecrest/FlexAdvantage or similar clinical/IRT platforms.

Experience:

8 to 10 years