R&D Senior Member of Technical Staff, Product Test

Overview

Senior Member of Technical Staff in R&D, Product Test, validating cloud-hosted industrial software deployed on Azure Kubernetes Service, working closely with Product Owners, Developers and DevOps.

What you'll do

• Work closely with Product Owners, Developers, DevOps Engineers and other stakeholders to understand requirements, define test strategies, and ensure high-quality delivery of cloud-hosted solutions.
• Participate actively in Agile/Scrum ceremonies including backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Design, develop, execute, and maintain comprehensive test plans, test cases, test data, and test automation suites for cloud-based products and services.
• Validate cloud deployments across multiple environments and ensure release readiness through verification of new features, enhancements, bug fixes, and platform upgrades.
• Develop and maintain automated testing solutions covering UI, API, integration, and end-to-end business workflows to improve regression coverage and test efficiency.
• Collaborate with DevOps teams to integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and support continuous testing practices.
• Validate system reliability, scalability, security, and performance aspects of cloud-hosted applications and services.
• Collaborate with Customer Support and field teams to reproduce, troubleshoot, and validate customer-reported issues.

What you'll need

• 3 to 8 years of experience in Software Testing, Quality Assurance, or Validation Engineering, with significant experience validating enterprise software products.
• Strong experience in testing cloud-hosted applications/cloud-native solutions deployed on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
• Hands-on experience creating test strategies, test plans, test cases, and validation reports for complex software systems.
• Experience validating REST APIs, microservices, and service-based architectures.
• Experience with Azure DevOps, Test Plans, CI/CD pipelines, and release validation processes.
• Experience performing functional, integration, regression, end-to-end, and upgrade testing for enterprise applications.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills with the ability to identify root causes and assess product quality risks.
• Experience working within Agile/Scrum development environments.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively across Development, Product, DevOps, Support, and R&D teams.
• Expertise in test automation using Selenium, Playwright, NUnit, C#, or equivalent automation technologies.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of Azure services such as App Services, Azure Functions, Storage Accounts, Service Bus, Key Vault.
• Experience with API automation tools such as Postman or equivalent frameworks.
• Experience with PowerShell, scripting, and test environment automation.
• Exposure to performance, scalability, reliability, and security testing.
• Experience with observability tools, application monitoring, log analysis, and troubleshooting cloud deployments.
• Knowledge of industrial software, engineering applications, or manufacturing domain solutions.
• Experience working with customer-facing cloud services and validating production deployment scenarios.
• Explore and adopt AI/Agentic AI-driven testing and debugging to improve engineering productivity and move toward autonomous QA.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, India.
• Employment type: full-time.
• Hybrid working: most roles are based at a local AVEVA office with an expectation of being on-site 50% of working hours; the working arrangement will be confirmed during the hiring process.