Company Profile:
Founded in 1976, CGI is among the largest independent IT and business consulting services firms in the world. With 94,000 consultants and professionals across the globe, CGI delivers an end-to-end portfolio of capabilities, from strategic IT and business consulting to systems integration, managed IT and business process services and intellectual property solutions. CGI works with clients through a local relationship model complemented by a global delivery network that helps clients digitally transform their organizations and accelerate results. CGI Fiscal 2024 reported revenue is CA$14.68 billion and CGI shares are listed on the TSX (GIB.A) and the NYSE (GIB). Learn more at cgi.com.
Job Title: Senior Automation Engineer
Position: Senior Test Engineer
Experience: 5 to 10 Years
Category: Software Development/ Engineering
Shift: 10 AM to 6 PM
Job location: CGI, DLF, Chennai
Position ID: J0726-0229
Employment Type: Full Time
Work Mode: Hybrid(3days work from office)
Education Qualification: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or higher with minimum 5 years of relevant experience.
The Senior Automation Engineer is responsible for designing and implementing scalable automation frameworks, developing reusable test scripts, and integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines to enhance coverage and efficiency.
Your future duties and responsibilities
Role Descriptions/ Duties:
- Design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts for web and backend applications
- Create scalable and reusable automation frameworks using industry-standard tools
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and define test strategies
- Execute automated test suites as part of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD)
- Identify defects, analyse root causes, and track issues through to resolution
- Develop and maintain test data, test environments, and supporting documentation
- Perform code reviews on automation scripts and contribute to test automation best practices
- Monitor and report on test results, quality metrics, and overall system stability
- Support manual testing where required, particularly in exploratory or edge-case scenarios
Key Skills and ‘must have’ experience:
- Proven experience in both UI automation using Playwright and API automation
- Strong knowledge of development practices using TypeScript
- Promoting engineering best practices with strong collaboration principles
- Enthusiastic to support Test Driven Development within cross-functional teams
- Passionate about testing and shifting left and good working knowledge of CI/CD deliveries
- Proven experience in both UI and API automation
- Analytical approach to developing with maintainable coding approaches
Good to have skills:
- Jenkins / Azure DevOps / GitHub Actions
- RestAssured / Postman
CI/CD Integration, API Automation, Performance Optimization
Required qualifications to be successful in this role
Together, as owners, let’s turn meaningful insights into action.
Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you’ll reach your full potential because…
You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That’s why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company’s strategy and direction.
Your work creates value. You’ll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.
You’ll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.
That same commitment to fairness extends to how we use technology. To support our recruitment team, AI tools may be used to help assess applications though they never replace human judgement. All hiring decisions remain entirely in the hands of our recruitment professionals.
Come join our team—one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.
