Senior Software Test Engineer

Overview

Senior Test Engineer who drives product quality across the software development lifecycle, partnering with Product Owners, Architects, Developers and cross-functional teams to define test strategy, build scalable automation and ensure high-quality releases.

What you'll do

• Define and implement comprehensive test strategies for new features and enhancements.
• Identify quality risks early and develop mitigation plans.
• Estimate testing effort and contribute to sprint and release planning activities.
• Design, develop, maintain, and execute functional, integration, system, regression, and exploratory test cases.
• Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks and test suites.
• Monitor test coverage, defect trends, and release readiness metrics.
• Support production readiness and release validation activities.
• Ensure quality standards for test automation code.
• Develop and execute performance, scalability, and reliability test scenarios.
• Mentor junior engineers on test design, automation, and quality best practices.
• Participate actively in design reviews, code reviews, and architecture discussions.
• Champion a quality-first culture across the team.
• Collaborate effectively with global and cross-functional teams.
• Align quality goals with business objectives and product strategy.
• Ensure scalability across multiple products and teams.
• Build reusable test capabilities and frameworks.
• Drive CI/CD quality gates, observability, performance testing, security testing, and system validation.
• Ensure regulatory, compliance, safety, and cybersecurity requirements are met.
• Drive transformation initiatives such as AI-driven testing and shift-left quality.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related STEM discipline.
• 5 - 8+ years of experience in software testing and quality engineering.
• Strong understanding of SDLC, STLC, Agile/Scrum methodologies, and testing principles.
• Experience with test automation frameworks and tools.
• Ability to define test strategies, identify quality risks, and ensure comprehensive test coverage across the product lifecycle.
• Experience as Quality anchor for team, driving and coordinating all test-related activities including test planning, automation, execution, defect management, release validation, and quality metrics.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Strong programming skills in at least one language such as TypeScript, JavaScript.
• Experience with API, UI, integration, and system testing.
• Experience developing and maintaining test automation frameworks using Playwright, Selenium, Cucumber, JBehave, or similar frameworks.
• Experience with REST API testing and API automation using tools/frameworks such as Postman, REST Assured, Playwright, etc.
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins.
• Working knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes and testing applications deployed in containerized environments.
• Experience in performance/load testing tools.

Nice to have

• Exposure to regulated domains such as Healthcare and Medical Devices.
• Knowledge of healthcare/imaging standards such as DICOM.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, India.
• Relocation assistance provided.