At PDI Technologies, we empower some of the world's leading convenience retail and petroleum brands with cutting-edge technology solutions that drive growth and operational efficiency. By "Connecting Convenience" across the globe, we empower businesses to increase productivity, make more informed decisions, and engage faster with customers through loyalty programs, shopper insights, and unmatched real-time market intelligence via mobile applications, such as GasBuddy. We're a global team committed to excellence, collaboration, and driving real impact. Explore our opportunities and become part of a company that values diversity, integrity, and growth.
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Primary Responsibilities:
As a Test Automation Engineer you will be part of an Agile team and involved in all aspects of our projects' lifecycle from inception through release working closely with the team's product owner, architects and engineers. Your mandate on the team will be to: (a)
maximize the quality, measurability and supportability
of the
production features
being developed, (b)
maximize the testability
of the software by finding and closing gaps in test coverage (c) minimize
the team's overall internal defect escapes
by shifting the balance of how we manage quality from
end-of-cycle defect detection & containment
(bug-finding & fix cycles) to
up-front defect prevention
(automation backed coverage of all our application features).
You will not be writing production code. You will however be writing
a lot of code
in the form of tools, emulators, mocks, fakes, stubs, unit, component and integration tests. You will also be working closely with the Engineering DevOps teams helping enhance our integration with our continuous integration (CI) systems,



our virtual labs and helping build out fully automated reporting of all the various project quality metrics with a vision of achieving "push-button" reporting of a project's software quality and trending (code coverage, static analysis, test surface coverage).
Setting up test environments as required including client and web applications, services and databases.
Preparing Automation Test Plans for Service Level Tests, Integration Tests and UI tests as needed
Be part of an Agile team, participate in all Agile ceremonies & activities and be accountable for the sprint deliverable
Participate in Release/Iteration planning, smoke, feature and regression test planning
Design & build automation smoke, feature & regression tests
Review code with your peers for testability, supportability and look for full unit test coverage
Write feature use cases in BDD to drive the creation of automated and/or manual test cases
Build mocks, emulators, fakes, stubs and test case libraries driving towards 100% acceptance test coverage of stories
Qualifications:
3 - 5 years of experience in software development and software automation
Experience with SQL based RDBMS, DML & DDL (e.g.
MySQL
,
PostgreSQL
,
Microsoft SQL Server
,
MariaDB
...)
Experience with two or more of:
WCF
,
.NET WebAPI
,
Selenium/Appium
,
Coded UI
,
MS Automation UI
Experience working with CI/CD, scripting & DevOps tools
Experience with network management, windows application, services, web application and database setup
Preferred
: Experience with BDD, gherkin language (
SpecFlow
,
Cucumber
,
JBehave
)
Preferred
: Experience with multi-tenant architecture, infrastructure security & routing




Highly motivated self-starter with a desire to help others and take action
Requires solid written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts into non-technical terms
Ability to independently work as a contributing member in a high-paced and focused team
Ability to multi-task and prioritize tasks with competing deadlines
Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with the ability to work under pressure
Ability to socialize ideas and influence decisions without direct authority
Collaborative in nature with a strong desire to dig in and learn independently and as well as through asking questions
Considers 'best-practice' standards, as well as departmental policies and procedures
Experience with one or more mainstream programming languages:
C#
,
Java
,
Node.JS/JavaScript
,
Go
,
Python
Experience writing functional E2E automation tests
Aware of CI, CD & DevOps tools & scripting (i.e.
Jenkins
,
Bash
,
PowerShell
,
Chef
,
Puppet
,
Ansible
,
SaltStack
Artifactory
...)
Strong computer science fundamentals: OOP, design patters, data structures & algorithms
Preferred: Fuel Retail, Wholesale or Logistics domain experience
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PDI is committed to offering a well-rounded perks program, designed to support and care for you, and your family throughout your life and career. This includes a competitive salary, market-competitive benefits, and a quarterly perks program. We encourage a good work-life balance with ample time off [time away] and, where appropriate, hybrid working arrangements. Employees have access to continuous learning, professional certifications, and leadership development opportunities. Our global culture fosters diversity, inclusion, and values authenticity, trust, curiosity, and diversity of thought, ensuring a supportive environment for all.

📌 Test Automation Engineer Ii (Chennai)
🏢 PDI Technologies
📍 Chennai