Senior Principal Platform Engineer – QA

Overview

Senior Principal Platform Engineer – QA will shape and evolve the organisation's quality engineering platform, setting testing and quality standards and enabling teams to build, test, deploy and operate software faster, more securely and more reliably.

What you'll do

• Define the platform quality engineering strategy, test pyramid and quality gates for all cloud platform products.
• Set standards for testing infrastructure-as-code: static analysis, policy-as-code, unit, integration and end-to-end tests for Terraform modules.
• Design ephemeral test environments that provision, validate and tear down platform stacks on every change.
• Build shift-left quality into CI/CD with automated gates for security, compliance, cost and drift before merge and release.
• Establish contract and compatibility testing so module and API changes never break consuming business teams.
• Lead resilience and chaos testing for platforms.
• Drive performance and scale testing for self-service provisioning paths.
• Modernise qualification from document-heavy validation to risk-based, automated assurance.
• Generate qualification evidence (IQ/OQ traceability, test results, approvals) directly from pipelines.
• Partner with Quality, GRC and the CISO office to keep evidence audit-ready for GxP, SOX and data integrity requirements.
• Own test frameworks for VM, OS, database and container image bakeries: CIS benchmarks, vulnerability thresholds, SBOM and signing checks.
• Integrate CNAPP and code scanning findings (e.g. Wiz, GitHub Advanced Security) into release gates with clear SLAs.
• Define evaluation frameworks for platform AI agents covering accuracy, safety and guardrails.
• Test agent-generated artifacts for correctness, policy compliance and blast radius before execution.
• Set quality metrics and SLOs, report them to platform and security leadership, and drive corrective actions.
• Mentor engineers across platform teams and grow a quality-engineering community of practice.
• Evaluate and select tooling and make build-vs-buy recommendations.

What you'll need

• 15+ years in software or platform engineering.
• 3+ years leading quality or test engineering for tenant platforms at enterprise scale.
• Deep hands-on Terraform experience.
• Strong policy-as-code skills around OPA/Rego.
• Production experience on Azure and GCP; working knowledge of Kubernetes and GitOps.
• Built CI/CD quality gates in GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps or similar.
• Proficient in at least one of Python, Go or TypeScript for test frameworks and tooling.
• Experience in a regulated industry (life sciences, pharma, finance or healthcare), including GxP or equivalent validation.
• Track record of setting technical direction across multiple teams without direct authority.

Nice to have

• Experience testing LLM-based or agentic systems.
• Familiarity with software supply chain standards: SLSA, SBOM (SPDX/CycloneDX), Sigstore/cosign.
• Chaos engineering tools such as Azure Chaos Studio, LitmusChaos or Gremlin.
• Experience with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Azure Arc or hybrid estates.
• Certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Google Professional Cloud Architect, ISTQB Advanced or CKA.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, India.