Principal Software QA Engineer

DevOps & CI/CD

Experience with CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitLab, Jenkins

Comfortable working in modern agile development and DevOps environments

Leadership & Collaboration

Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills

Excellent verbal and written communication

Proven experience mentoring junior team members and driving cross-functional collaboration

Knowledge/Skills:

Knowledge of complete SDLC and experience in software testing methodology, tools, developing test strategy, test planning and test execution.

Strong automation background to be able to own automation strategy and tools required to build a test framework.

Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills.

Experience in software testing methodology, tools, developing test strategy, test planning and test execution.

Knowledge of tools and processes for solution, regression, scale, and performance testing.

Experience working in continuous integration and continuous delivery.

Self-motivated with excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Ideal candidates will have at least 13+ years of relevant experience in developing and supporting automation test frameworks from ground up.

Proficiency in programming in Python/Java/Go, Playwright.

Experience in the following areas/technologies:

Private Cloud experience

Infrastructure & Data Center management experience

SQL/NoSQL DBs, XML

REST APIs, JSON, Web Applications

AWS/GCP/Azure, Docker, Microservices, Containerisation, Kubernetes

CI/CD, Git/Gitlab, Jenkins

LINUX/VM environments

Pytest, TestNG, Junit

Scale/performance testing tools

Storage / Compute / Networking background

KVM / Vmware

Education

BS/MS degree in Science or Engineering from a recognized and accredited university/college.