Test / Integration Engineer I

Overview

The Test / Integration Engineer I provides functional leadership for testing activities across the project lifecycle, owning testing strategy, coordinating multidisciplinary engineering teams, leading customer test workshops, and ensuring system readiness for acceptance.

What you'll do

• Own and drive the testing strategy across the project lifecycle.
• Define and manage test approaches, test plans, test readiness criteria, and acceptance criteria.
• Ensure testing activities align with project requirements, system specifications, and customer expectations.
• Lead operational scenario validation under realistic operating conditions.
• Approve test readiness and ensure prerequisites are in place before testing begins.
• Lead and coordinate FAT, IHT, SFT, SAT, and other system acceptance activities as applicable.
• Monitor testing progress and report to project leadership.
• Lead customer test workshops and facilitate technical discussions on system testing and acceptance.
• Act as the key testing interface between customers and internal engineering teams.
• Present test results, issues, risks, and mitigation plans to stakeholders.
• Manage expectations and align customer requirements with testing outcomes.
• Participate in engineering discussions, design reviews, and system-level technical meetings.
• Coordinate testing across software, controls, electrical, mechanical, simulation, and other engineering disciplines.
• Drive system integration activities and validate interfaces between disciplines.
• Coordinate resolution of complex cross-disciplinary defects and technical issues.
• Guide Test Integration Engineers and provide functional leadership to the testing team.
• Support and mentor junior engineers and promote consistent testing practices.
• Identify testing-related project risks and support mitigation and contingency plans.
• Drive defect investigations and follow critical issues through to resolution.
• Improve testing processes, tools, methodologies, and system validation.
• Promote standardisation and reuse of test procedures and best practices across projects.
• Ensure complete and accurate test documentation and project handover deliverables.

What you'll need

• B.E. / B.Tech in Electronics, Instrumentation, Electrical, E&TC, or Computer Engineering.
• 5+ years of relevant experience in system integration, software testing, system testing, or a related engineering environment, with demonstrated experience in a testing or integration lead role.
• Strong understanding of software testing and development life cycles, including V-Model, CMMI, Agile, and test processes.
• Strong hands-on experience with Polarion, Jira, Oracle PL/SQL, and Unix.
• Strong experience developing and reviewing test strategies, test plans, test cases, integration plans, system designs, and acceptance criteria.
• Proven ability to lead testing activities across multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Strong customer-facing and stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience leading defect investigations and technical issue resolution.
• Strong ownership, leadership, and mentoring capabilities.
• Willingness to travel extensively and support customer projects based on business requirements.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of airport baggage handling, material handling, distribution systems, PLC, and SCADA.
• Previous experience in airport automation or a similar complex automation environment.

Details

• Location: Pune, India.
• Employment type: Full-time.
• Flexible and hybrid working model.
• Extensive travel and support for customer projects based on business requirements.