Staff QA Automation Engineer

About Us

With electric vehicles expected to be nearly 30% of new vehicle sales by 2025 and more than 50% by 2040 electric mobility is becoming a reality. ChargePoint (NYSE: CHPT) is at the center of this revolution powering one of the worlds leading EV charging networks and a comprehensive set of hardware software and mobile solutions for every charging need across North America and Europe. We bring together drivers businesses automakers policymakers utilities and other stakeholders to make e-mobility a global reality.

Since our founding in 2007 ChargePoint has focused solely on making the transition to electric easy for businesses fleets and drivers. ChargePoint offers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to create an all-electric future and a trillion-dollar market.

At ChargePoint we foster a positive and productive work environment by committing to live our values of Be Courageous Charge Together Love our Customers Operate with Openness and Relentlessly Pursue Awesome. These values guide how we show up every day align and work together to build a brighter future for all of us.

Join the team that is building the EV charging industry and make your mark on how people and goods will get everywhere they need to go in any context for generations to come.

Reports To

Director NOC Delivery & Automation

What You will be Doing

We are looking for a Staff Test Automation Engineer to lead quality engineering across two high-impact initiatives: our Voice AI Monitoring & Analytics this role you will architect and own the end-to-end test automation strategy drive quality culture across cross-functional teams and mentor engineers on best practices.

You will work closely with product engineering platform and data teams to embed quality upstream shifting left from reactive bug-finding to proactive prevention at the architecture level.

What You Will Bring to ChargePoint

• Design and own the overall test automation framework and strategy across both Voice AI and Monitoring & Analytics platforms
• Define test pyramid principles - unit integration contract E2E and enforce them across repositories
• Lead architecture decisions for automation tooling CI/CD test pipelines and observability of test health
• Establish standards for test data management environment parity and flakiness elimination
• Own the performance testing practice - load stress soak and spike testing for backend services and APIs
• Define performance baselines SLOs and regression gates integrated into CI/CD
• Instrument test runs with profiling and APM tooling to identify throughput bottlenecks and latency regressions
• Build scalable performance test harnesses using Locust k6 or equivalent frameworks

Collaboration & Communication:

• Act as a technical lead and quality champion influencing engineering culture coding standards and test coverage expectations
• Mentor mid-level and senior engineers on automation patterns code quality and testing strategy
• Partner with product managers to define acceptance criteria and quality gates at the story level
• Drive root cause analysis on escaped defects and build preventive test coverage

Requirements

• 8 years of experience in software quality engineering with a strong automation focus
• Proven track record at Staff level owning QE strategy for complex distributed systems
• Expert-level Python clean testable production-grade automation code
• Hands-on experience with Playwright for E2E browser automation including multi-tab auth flows and visual testing
• Deep familiarity with FastAPI and Django - understanding of service internals for effective API-level testing
• Strong experience designing and executing performance test programs (load stress soak) at scale
• Experience testing cloud-native platforms on GCP AWS or Azure Kubernetes workloads managed services event pipelines
• Familiarity with observability stacks: Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry or similar
• Solid understanding of CI/CD principles and integrating automation into deployment pipelines
• Excellent communication skills able to present quality strategy to both engineers and executive stakeholders

Location

Bangalore India

We are committed to an inclusive and diverse team. ChargePoint is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race color ethnicity ancestry national origin religion sex gender gender identity gender expression sexual orientation age disability veteran status genetic information marital status or any legally protected status.

If there is a match between your experiences/skills and the Company needs we will contact you directly.