Staff Test Automation Engineer

Location: Bangalore, India

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Staff Test Automation Engineer to lead quality engineering initiatives across high-impact Voice AI and Monitoring & Analytics platforms. In this role, you will define the end-to-end test automation strategy, drive quality engineering best practices, mentor engineering teams, and ensure scalable, high-quality software delivery.

You will collaborate closely with product, platform, and engineering teams to embed quality throughout the software development lifecycle, shifting quality practices from reactive testing to proactive engineering.

Key ResponsibilitiesTest Automation Strategy

- Design and own the overall test automation framework and strategy.

- Define and enforce testing best practices across unit, integration, contract, and end-to-end testing.

- Drive architecture decisions for automation frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, and test observability.

- Establish standards for test data management, environment consistency, and test reliability.

- Lead performance testing initiatives, including load, stress, spike, and soak testing.

- Define performance baselines, service-level objectives (SLOs), and regression gates.

- Build scalable performance testing frameworks using tools such as Locust, k6, or equivalent.

- Analyze application performance using profiling and observability tools to identify bottlenecks.

Technical Leadership
- Champion quality engineering practices across engineering teams.

- Mentor engineers on automation frameworks, testing strategies, and code quality.

- Partner with Product Managers to define acceptance criteria and quality gates.

- Drive root cause analysis for production defects and implement preventive quality measures.





Required Skills & Experience
- 6 to 8 years of experience in Software Quality Engineering with strong expertise in Test Automation.

- Proven experience defining and leading automation strategies for distributed systems.

- Expert-level proficiency in Python for automation development.

- Hands-on experience with Playwright for end-to-end web automation.

- Solid understanding of FastAPI and Django for API and backend testing.

- Extensive experience with performance testing methodologies (load, stress, soak, spike testing).

- Experience testing cloud-native applications on AWS, GCP, or Azure.

- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, event-driven systems, and cloud services.

- Familiarity with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or similar.

- Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and automated quality gates.

- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and technical leadership skills.

Preferred Skills
- Experience working on large-scale distributed systems.

- Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures.

- Experience mentoring engineers and driving engineering best practices.

- Passion for building scalable, reliable, and high-quality software systems.

About the Company

Cogniify is a product-based AI company focused on building AI-powered software solutions for enterprises. The company specializes in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Generative AI, data science, and custom software development, helping organizations automate business processes, optimize operations, and accelerate digital transformation. Its offerings include AI enablement, cloud-native application development, and intelligent analytics tailored to business needs.

Website: https://cogniify.ai/

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