India: Principal Engineer

H&P Technologies is hiring a Principal Engineer to own engineering excellence across Quality Assurance (QA) and Product Sustenance (PST). The role helps these teams and development maintenance improve how H&P software is tested, released, secured and maintained in production. You will help with CI/CD, release and deployment, application security, test automation and production maintenance practices.

Location: Noida

Work Type: On-Site

Responsibilities

• Requires understanding of software development life cycle (SDLC), programming concepts, and technical dependencies to make informed decisions.
• Define the test strategy and quality gates across unit, integration, API, UI, performance and end-to-end testing for microservices, web and desktop applications.
• Guide the design of automation frameworks (e.g. Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, REST Assured) and integrate them into CI/CD so every build is validated automatically.
• Make sure QA has stable, production-like test environments, including edge and rig-simulation setups, and test data available on demand.
• Introduce shift-left practices: testability in design reviews, contract testing, and developers owning their tests.

• Define and report quality metrics: defect trends, escaped defects, automation coverage, test pass rates and release readiness.
• Help teams for complex, cross-team production issues affecting performance, data flow, integrations or availability.
• Lead structured RCA for critical incidents. Drive preventive fixes, missing tests and monitoring improvements back into development. Build runbooks so support engineers can resolve issues independently.
• Analyze recurring defects and support tickets to find root causes and technical debt. Share the findings with the development teams as a prioritized improvement backlog.
• Evaluate and introduce new tools, including AI-assisted testing, triage and operations, where they give measurable value.
• Align QA and PST on shared standards, tools and ownership, and resolve dependencies and hand-off gaps between them and the development teams.

• Champion an Agile Mindset by promoting adaptability, transparency, and continuous improvement across all project phases.
• Utilizing a Servant Leadership mindset actively supports and empowers teams by removing blockers quickly, enabling progress without unnecessary delays.
• Advocate for and leverage automated testing frameworks to maintain quality at speed.
• Partners with IT Infrastructure, Operations, Development, and Technology teams to define and execute plans to support the deployment and scalability of solutions.
• Strong collaborative skills with an ability to effectively communicate with both technical teams and non-technical business users.
• Demonstrates the H&P company values: Actively Care, Service Attitude, Innovative Spirit, and Teamwork.

Requirements

• Requires bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electronics or Electrical Engineering
• 15+ years of experience with significant depth in SDLC of enterprise-class products, microservices architecture, cloud computing, containers technology, and cloud-scale design.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with a proven ability to manage shifting priorities and deliver under tight timelines.
• Ability to translate technical concepts into business language.

Thank you for your interest in joining our team!

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