Location
Bengaluru, Karnataka, IN
About the Role
Designation: Principal Engineer-QE
Experience: 10-15 Yrs
Location: Whitefield-Bangalore
Roles & Responsibilities:
1:Be a part of the initial team to define and set up a best-in-class Digital platform for the Enterprise Work real-time with product managers and engineering teams on test design and implementation, evaluate testability of new features/implementations. Define strategy for system level testing and test optimization.
2: Create and maintain excellent test plans, test cases/test protocol, requirements traceability, automated tests and test reports. Identify use case based testcases, E2E testcases, System Testcases.
3: Communicate testing and product quality status to various levels of the organization. Drive communication and consistently deliver accurate product quality snapshots for stakeholders.
4: Perform ad hoc and exploration test to find defects before the product is in the hands of users. Follow up on defects and regressions to improve product quality and provide input on factors that influence product excellence (Focused Utility, Simple Design).
5: Perform accessibility, internationalization, and localization testing as needed. Find and thoroughly report bugs, track fixes, and verify bug fixes.
Must have Skills:
1:Strong experience in AEM QA , Automation of Web based applications esp finance or commerce related domains Strong experience in working in Cloud (AWS, Azure, etc) based environment and relevant distributed architecture using microservices Experience in designing Data, Keyword Driven or Hybrid Test Automation Frameworks. Experience in doing UI Automation using Selenium. Experience with API (REST/SOAP) and/or Performance testing. Experience building automation frameworks and/or test infrastructure from scratch, with writing and running automation scripts and summarizing results in the context of the system as a whole. Passionate about Quality Engineering
2: Design, implement and automate test scripts Experience in database testing and messaging queues Experience in Testing of API/Web Services Experience on REST, SOAP, WSDL, End to end Testing Knowledge of virtualization tools
3: Exposure to testing in platforms/OS/Servers (e.g. Windows Server, Linux/Unix, J2EE, IIS, Apache, Tomcat, etc) Experience in working with build tools like Maven, ANT or similar; CI/CD tools – Jenkins or similar; SCM tools – Git or similar; Collaboration Tools - JIRA, Confluence etc; IDE - Eclipse/Netbeans
4: Exposure to CICD pipeline creation and maintenance – from build to deploy to test integration Experience setting up and implementing test automation framework. Good understanding of Core Java is a must. Good understanding of SDLC, Agile methodologies Strong in Troubleshooting, deployment and debugging
Ideal Candidate
A hands-on QA architect who has transitioned from individual contributor automation work into platform-level test strategy—someone with proven experience designing test frameworks in cloud-native/microservices environments (AWS/Azure) and who has actually mentored teams on shifting left in CI/CD pipelines.
Estimated Salary Range(medium confidence)
₹2.8 Cr – ₹4.2 Cr per year
Likely Interview Questions
- 1.Walk us through a test automation framework you designed from scratch—what architectural decisions did you make around data-driven vs keyword-driven, and how did you handle microservices testing?
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