Senior Software Development Test Engineer

Roles and Responsibilities

• Be part of the Agile development team and work closely with developers.
• AI-Driven Quality Engineering: Evaluate, champion, and integrate AI-assisted testing tools and Generative AI workflows to accelerate test case generation, automation, and bug analysis.
• Develop a deep understanding of product features and enhancements, including functional specifications and design, with a focus on automated and manual, white-box and black-box testing.
• Plan, create, and manage the overall quality strategy.
• Collaborate with developers during product design reviews and provide inputs on functional requirements to improve testability and automation.
• Own end-to-end QA for medium to complex features.
• Collaborate across teams to strategize and plan long-term solutions for overall product and feature quality.
• Identify quality gaps and drive action items to address them.
• Develop and maintain a model to estimate automation ROI and continuously improve it.
• Evaluate and recommend new quality tools, technologies, and methodologies to improve productivity and quality.
• Plan test cycles, provide estimates, monitor and track progress, and participate in bug triaging and quality metrics tracking.
• Ensure timely builds and effectively manage product deployments.
• Drive reduction of overall COGS/Opex for test infrastructure.
• Design and architect modular, scalable, and reusable automated testing solutions.

Key Skills

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, troubleshooting, and debugging skills.
• AI Tooling & Awareness: Practical experience with AI coding assistants (e.g., Copilot, Claude, Cursor) for code generation and debugging, with awareness of AI-driven testing solutions.
• Strong knowledge of QA methodologies, tools, and processes.
• Ability to estimate, prioritize, and plan work with technical leads.
• Good understanding of operating systems (Windows and Linux).
• Understanding of threads, multiprocessing
• Good understanding of basic networking concepts.
• Experience with bug and test management tools such as Jira, TestRail, etc.
• Experience with version control systems such as Git, SVN, etc.
• Good shell scripting skills.
• Strong programming skills in one or more languages such as Python, Java.
• Familiarity with cloud architecture and concepts.
• Experience with security, scale, and performance testing.
• Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases such as MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, MongoDB, Cassandra, etc.
• Experience building automation pipelines and working with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins.
• Experience designing automation frameworks and tools.
• Knowledge of front-end web application test automation tools such as Selenium, Cypress, or Puppeteer.
• Knowledge of RESTful APIs and API testing/automation.
• Understanding of Agile testing methodologies, test pyramid, and quality metrics.
• Experience with white-box testing and methodologies such as TDD and BDD.

Pluses

• Cloud computing experience.
• Storage domain experience.