Selenium + API Automation Engineer (Java)

🔹 Must-Have Skills:
✅ 8+ years of hands-on experience in Selenium + API Automation (Java)
✅ Strong knowledge of API automation (JSON/XML requests & response validation)
✅ Test automation for UI, APIs, Batches, DB validations
✅ Expertise in Selenium WebDriver with Java
✅ Hands-on experience with SQL, UNIX, JIRA
✅ Strong understanding of Java (OOPs, Collections, Exception Handling, String Manipulation, Garbage Collection)
✅ Experience in Agile QA processes – epics, stories, planning, estimation
✅ Ability to develop & maintain optimized test cases for functional, regression, integration, and smoke testing
✅ Experience in CI/CD, DevOps, GIT, Jenkins

🔹 Good-to-Have Skills:
✔️ Experience with Test Strategy, Test Plans, and Automation Frameworks
✔️ Exposure to AI-driven test optimization, service virtualization, and modernization
✔️ Experience in Framework & Utility Development
✔️ Proficiency in Python (Bonus Skill)
✔️ Leadership skills – mentoring junior team members & driving continuous improvement