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Automation Engineer

Kancheepuram District India

  • Hours:
    40 HOURS / WEEK
  • Contract Type:
    Regular
  • Type Of employment:
    Full time
  • Job ID:
    R111030

About Team:

RX Global aims to create unforgettable experiences for attendees and exhibitors through organizing events. Innovation, creativity, and collaboration drive the company to offer exceptional services to clients.

About the role:

This position performs moderately difficult research, design, and software development assignments within a specific software functional area or product line. The position should have the ability to work on individual pieces of work and solve problems including the design of the program flow of individual pieces of code, effective coding, and unit testing.

Responsibilities:

Automation Engineering

  • Design, implement, and maintain automated test suites covering API, UI, and performance scenarios
  • Build reusable test components and frameworks to support scalable automation
  • Ensure automated tests are reliable, maintainable, and aligned with product behaviour

Delivery & Quality

  • Translate product and technical requirements into effective automated test coverage
  • Identify gaps in test coverage and propose improvements
  • Investigate and resolve moderately complex test failures and quality issues
  • Support release confidence by maintaining healthy, meaningful test suites

Mentorship & Collaboration

  • Mentor and guide engineers and testers on automation practices, test design, and tooling
  • Collaborate closely with backend, frontend, and QA engineers on test strategy and implementation
  • Participate in code reviews with a focus on test quality and automation effectiveness

Continuous Improvement

  • Contribute to reducing manual testing effort through automation
  • Improve test execution time, reliability, and signal‑to‑noise ratio
  • Keep abreast of evolving test automation tools, frameworks, and best practices

General

  • Perform all other duties as assigned

Requirements:

QUALIFICATIONS

  • 3+ years of professional Software Engineering or Test Automation experience
  • Demonstrable experience building and maintaining automated test suites for production systems
  • BSc in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience


TECHNICAL SKILLS

Test Automation & Quality Engineering

  • Proficiency in at least one test automation language or framework (e.g. C#, Java, TypeScript, Python)
  • Experience automating API tests for backend services
  • Experience automating UI tests for web applications e.g. playwright
  • Experience designing and executing performance or load tests

Frameworks, Tooling & CI/CD

  • Experience building and maintaining test frameworks and reusable test utilities
  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated tests into build and deployment workflows
  • Understanding of test execution strategies, test data management, and environment dependencies

Systems & Integration

  • Understanding of RESTful APIs and distributed system behaviours
  • Ability to collaborate with backend and frontend engineers to improve testability and coverage
  • Familiarity with common failure modes in distributed and UI‑driven systems

Quality, Security & Practices

  • Strong understanding of testing fundamentals (test pyramid, shift‑left testing, regression strategies)
  • Awareness of security and dependency risks from a quality and testing perspective
  • Ability to diagnose flaky tests and improve suite reliability and execution time

Ways of Working

  • Knowledge of Agile and Waterfall development methodologies
  • Good oral and written communication skills
  • Ability to clearly explain test failures, risks, and quality concerns to engineers and stakeholders

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

Working for you

We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:


Comprehensive Health Insurance: Covers you, your immediate family, and parents.
Enhanced Health Insurance Options: Competitive rates negotiated by the company.
Group Life Insurance: Ensuring financial security for your loved ones.
Group Accident Insurance: Extra protection for accidental death and permanent disablement.
Flexible Working Arrangement: Achieve a harmonious work-life balance.
Employee Assistance Program: Access support for personal and work-related challenges.
Medical Screening: Your well-being is a top priority.
Modern Family Benefits: Maternity, paternity, and adoption support.
Long-Service Awards: Recognizing dedication and commitment.
New Baby Gift: Celebrating the joy of parenthood.
Subsidized Meals in Chennai: Enjoy delicious meals at discounted rates.
Various Paid Time Off: Take time off with Casual Leave, Sick Leave, Privilege Leave, Compassionate Leave, Special Sick Leave, and Gazetted Public Holidays.

About Business:

RX is a global leader in events and exhibitions, leveraging industry expertise, data, and technology to build businesses for individuals, communities, and organisations. With a presence in 25 countries across 41 industry sectors, RX hosts approximately 350 events annually. RX is committed to creating an inclusive work environment for all our people. RX empowers businesses to thrive by leveraging data-driven insights and digital solutions. RX is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. For more information, visit www.rxglobal.com.


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