Senior Test Automation Engineer

EPAM Systems is seeking a Senior Test Automation Engineer to join their team. This role will focus on both independent and collaborative testing of applications, emphasizing automation testing while ensuring successful product releases through effective communication of test results.

Responsibilities:

• Perform hands-on testing, programming, and debugging across assigned applications
• Develop a deep understanding of the business objectives and requirements behind client products
• Conduct testing across one or more projects, determining the most appropriate automation approach for each
• Communicate with project teams to stay aligned on build features, requirements, and release plans
• Design and develop tests that meet functional and performance requirements while satisfying user acceptance criteria
• Partner with the Scrum team to drive Test Driven Development, enabling immediate feedback on modules under development
• Follow established testing tools and practices and provide recommendations to improve them over time
• Conduct peer reviews of tests or scripts built by other team members to uphold quality standards
• Validate that user stories and requirements are fully met before release
• Ensure defects are communicated quickly, clearly, and with sufficient detail for resolution
• Track testing progress and deliver daily or weekly status reports to stakeholders
• Anticipate and proactively raise potential issues that could affect quality or delivery timelines
• Support troubleshooting of production issues to determine whether defects are present
• Stay current with emerging technologies, testing tools, and industry best practices
• Collaborate with product teams on user stories, engineering teams on architecture and design, and operations teams on environments and deployments
• Guide and direct onshore and offshore consultants on the team whenever needed

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or another technical discipline
• At least 3 years of experience in software QA and automated testing using Java, including tools such as Selenium, RestAssured, and AWS SDK
• Hands-on experience with automated testing of front-end applications, microservices, and/or serverless architectures
• Practical experience testing REST APIs for functionality, reliability, and performance
• Familiarity with issue and test management tools such as Jira, QMetry, TestRail, Apache JMeter, and TestNG
• Working experience with version control systems, along with exposure to GitHub Copilot for AI-assisted development
• Experience using Apache Maven for build and dependency management
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines to support continuous delivery
• Understanding of and experience testing in cloud environments, particularly AWS
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills for working effectively across teams
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English at a B2+ level or higher
• Experience with AWS Simple Notification Service (SNS) for pub/sub messaging scenarios
• Experience with AWS Simple Queue Service (SQS) for message queuing in distributed systems
• Broader familiarity with Amazon Web Services and its ecosystem of cloud-native tools