Senior Principal Platform Engineer – QA

Overview

Senior Principal Platform Engineer – QA will help shape and evolve the organisation's quality engineering platform, 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: 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: 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; 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 Luxor North Tower.