Photon is hiring Automation Test Engineers in Chennai for an immediate opportunity. This opening is targeted at professionals with 3–7 years of exclusive automation testing experience and is particularly suitable for candidates who have strong hands-on expertise in Selenium, Java/JavaScript/C#, API testing, Microservices, Postman, automation frameworks and JIRA.
The role also offers an opportunity to work with modern digital applications where automation, API validation and continuous delivery are important parts of the quality engineering lifecycle. Immediate joiners and candidates who can join within one week are preferred, making this particularly relevant for candidates currently serving a short notice period.
🏢 About Photon
Photon is a global AI and digital solutions company that works with major enterprises on digital transformation, customer experiences, cloud-first solutions, mobile applications, APIs, microservices and data-driven platforms. Photon states that it has 7,500+ digital engineers and powers more than 1 billion digital touchpoints every day.
Photon has a significant presence in India, including multiple offices in Chennai, where its locations are based at DLF IT Park, Manapakkam. (Photon) Its technology services include API and Microservices, mobile applications, cloud migration, commerce and digital experiences, making automation testing an important part of delivering reliable digital products.
📌 Job Details
- 💼 Position: Automation Test Engineer
- 🧑💻 Experience: 3–7 Years
- 📍 Location: Chennai
- ⏳ Notice Period: Immediate joiners / candidates who can join within 1 week
- 🧪 Primary Focus: Automation Testing
- 🖥️ UI Automation: Selenium
- 🔌 API Testing: Postman, Rest Assured/Apache
- 🛠️ Defect Tracking: JIRA
- 📱 Good to Have: Mobile App Automation
- 🔄 Work Environment: Agile / rapid delivery
⭐ Why This Role Is Good for Your Experience
This opportunity is stronger than a role focused only on executing Selenium scripts. The JD combines UI automation, API testing, microservices, regression testing, automation framework knowledge and programming.
For an experienced QA professional, this combination can strengthen your profile toward SDET and Quality Engineering positions. Working with API and microservices testing is especially valuable because modern applications increasingly depend on distributed backend services rather than only browser-based functionality.
The role also expects knowledge of design patterns, code quality and automation frameworks, which means candidates should demonstrate engineering thinking rather than simply knowing Selenium commands.
🧠 Skills Required
Candidates should be comfortable with Java, JavaScript, C# or a comparable programming language, with strong programming fundamentals including OOP, collections/data structures, exception handling and reusable code.
For automation, prepare Selenium WebDriver, locators, waits, browser handling, Page Object Model, synchronization, test execution and framework architecture.
For API testing, know HTTP methods, status codes, headers, authentication, JSON/XML, request/response validation, negative testing and Postman collections. Experience with Rest Assured can provide an additional advantage.
You should also understand regression testing, smoke testing, integration testing, defect lifecycle, JIRA, Git, CI/CD and Agile methodologies. Mobile automation using Appium can differentiate your profile because it is specifically mentioned as a good-to-have skill.
🎯 Expected Photon Interview Rounds
Photon does not publish one universal interview process for every QA position, and the actual process can vary according to the project and seniority. However, candidate reports provide useful insight.
For this position, candidates should reasonably prepare for:
- 🔹 Recruiter/initial screening
- 🔹 Technical interview: Java/JavaScript/C#, Selenium, framework architecture, API and microservices testing
- 🔹 Practical coding/automation assessment: programming or Selenium automation problem
- 🔹 Managerial/project discussion
- 🔹 HR and compensation discussion
💰 Expected Salary Range
Salary depends heavily on experience, current CTC, technical depth, project requirements and negotiation. Public salary estimates for Photon QA/automation positions in Chennai show figures around ₹3–8 LPA for some QA Automation roles, while other listings and estimates vary by seniority.
For a 3–7 year Automation Test Engineer, a practical expectation could be approximately ₹6–14 LPA, with stronger candidates possessing API automation, framework development, programming and mobile automation potentially negotiating higher. This is an estimate.
🔥 Preparation Tips — Specific to This JD
Don’t spend all your preparation time memorizing Selenium interview questions. Build a small end-to-end automation framework using Selenium with Java, Page Object Model, TestNG/JUnit, configuration management and reporting.
Then add an API layer using Postman or Rest Assured. Prepare to explain how you would validate a microservice when the UI is unavailable.
A particularly useful exercise for this JD is: automate a login workflow with Selenium, validate an API response for the same user, integrate the tests into a regression suite and explain how you would execute it through CI/CD.
📄 Resume Tips
Your resume should immediately communicate “Automation Engineer”, not simply “QA Tester.”
Place Selenium + programming language + API Testing + Postman + Automation Framework + Microservices prominently in your technical summary. Mention the framework you built or maintained and quantify results wherever possible.
For example, instead of writing “Worked on Selenium automation,” write: “Developed and maintained Selenium-based automation framework covering 600+ regression scenarios, reducing manual regression effort by 40%.”
📩 How to Apply
Interested candidates should send their updated resume to:
📧 priyadharshini.hariharan@photon.com
Use a clear subject such as “Automation Test Engineer – Chennai – 3–7 Years” and mention your total experience, automation experience, current location, notice period and key automation skills in the email.
🚀 If you have 3–7 years of strong automation experience and can join immediately or within a week, this Photon opportunity in Chennai is definitely worth exploring.
