Principal Engineer, Test Automation

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We are seeking a Principal Automation Engineer with 10 years of experience defining automation architecture technical roadmaps and engineering standards for API UI integration and end-to-end testing. The ideal candidate is a systems-oriented Quality Engineer who understands how products and services interconnect sees the broader product architecture and can decompose requirements to capture use cases holistically. This hands-on role will lead the development of scalable C#/.NET frameworks establish CI/CD quality gates guide cross-team adoption and resolve complex automation and testability challenges across distributed products.

• Own the enterprise-grade automation architecture and roadmap for C#-based REST API UI integration and workflow testing.
• Design modular frameworks with reusable libraries for configuration service clients page or component objects test data parallel execution retries logging reporting and environment management.
• Define coding standards branching and review practices framework governance versioning documentation and contribution models.
• Establish pipeline strategy for pull-request validation daily smoke tests staged regression release qualification and automated quality gates.
• Guide teams on automation suitability testability coverage modelling risk-based selection and reduction of flaky or low-value tests.
• Lead technical reviews proofs of concept framework migrations tool evaluations and resolution of complex cross-service failures.
• Define dashboards and metrics for coverage reliability execution time defect containment failure causes and productivity gains.
• Partner with architecture software DevOps cybersecurity systems and verification leaders to embed quality throughout delivery.
• Mentor automation engineers and build engineering capability through reusable assets coaching and technical communities of practice.

• Mandatory: Systems-oriented Quality Engineer with a strong understanding of how products services and components interconnect; able to see the broader product architecture and decompose requirements to capture use cases holistically.
• Mandatory: Hands-on Automation Architect with advanced C# skills and a strong understanding of software design principles dependency injection concurrency asynchronous execution and extensible architecture.
• Mandatory: Hands-on experience architecting and developing REST API automation frameworks using RestSharp.
• Mandatory: Strong hands-on experience with NUnit or Selenium or playwright for test automation.
• Mandatory: Working knowledge of GraphQL (GQL) and experience validating GraphQL APIs.
• Mandatory: Solid understanding of test data management principles strategies and reusable data provisioning approaches.
• Mandatory: Strong awareness of Kubernetes and containerized test environments.
• Good understanding of communication protocols particularly SIP and hands-on exposure to SIPp for protocol-level testing.
• Expertise in API contracts distributed systems microservices event-driven integrations databases authentication authorization and service virtualization.
• Deep experience with Git CI/CD architecture parallel execution automated reporting and quality gates.
• Proven ability to improve framework reliability diagnose flaky tests optimize execution and drive adoption across multiple teams.
• Strong technical leadership stakeholder communication mentoring and architecture decision-making skills.

• Experience with Allure reporting is preferred.
• Experience with Postman is good to have.
• Experience with Azure Docker infrastructure-as-code message brokers observability platforms and cloud-native test environments.
• Experience validating healthcare platforms HL7/FHIR integrations connected devices or regulated software products.
• Knowledge of security accessibility performance reliability and resilience testing within a unified automation strategy.
• Relevant Microsoft cloud architecture or testing certification is advantageous.
• Knowledge of SIP infrastructure and media components such as Kamailio FreeSWITCH RTPEngine SBCs registrars RTP and WebRTC.
• Experience with Azure Key Vault Azure App Configuration Azure Cache for Redis Azure Web PubSub Terraform KEDA and container security tooling.
• Familiarity with IEC 62304 ISO 13485 risk management cybersecurity expectations and quality systems for regulated healthcare software.
• Experience with Jira Jama validated toolchains Agile/Scrum delivery and formal release-readiness reviews.
• Experience leading a team of automation testers toward a common goal.

B.E/B. Tech in Computer Science / Electronics & Communication / Electrical or related field

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