Lead Software Development Engineer

Overview

Lead Software Development Engineer (P4) for UKG’s Shared Services team within Employee Solutions & Experience (ESE), focused on quality engineering and scalable test automation.

What you'll do

• Design and build scalable test automation frameworks, shared services, libraries, and developer tools.
• Create reusable testing capabilities for browser, API, integration, contract, performance, accessibility, and end-to-end testing.
• Establish automation engineering standards for architecture, code quality, testability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Integrate automated quality checks, release validations, and quality gates into CI/CD pipelines.
• Improve test execution speed, parallelization, diagnostics, stability, and feedback time.
• Build observability into automation platforms (logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerts) and correlate results with telemetry.
• Mentor engineers and manual testers in software development, automation, DevOps, and AI-assisted engineering.

What you'll need

• 8+ years of experience in software/quality engineering, DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, or test architecture.
• Strong programming skills in TypeScript/JavaScript/Python/Java/C# or a comparable language.
• Experience designing maintainable automation frameworks or internal engineering platforms.
• Hands-on experience with Playwright, Selenium WebDriver, or similar browser automation.
• Strong experience with API, integration, contract, and end-to-end testing.
• Experience with CI/CD platforms including Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or another.
• Knowledge of observability (logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, and failure diagnostics).

Details

• Location: Bangalore, INKA, India.