Test / Integration Engineer I

Overview

Test / Integration Engineer I providing functional leadership for testing activities across the project lifecycle. The role owns testing strategy, coordinates multidisciplinary engineering teams, leads customer test workshops, and ensures system readiness for successful 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.
• Identify improvements to 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.

Nice to have

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

Details

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