The opportunity

This role offers the opportunity to strengthen the reliability, stability, and resilience of missioncritical systems through automated testing and realworld fault simulation. You will design and execute chaos experiments, build automation workflows, and collaborate with crossfunctional teams to validate system behavior under failure conditions. The role focuses on proactive reliability engineering, continuous improvement of system robustness, and developing testing strategies that ensure high availability across infrastructure and applications.

Job details

• Job Title: Automated Reliability Test Engineer (Chaos Engineering)

• Division: Technology / Platform Engineering / SRE

• Years of Experience: 3+ Years

• Education: Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science, Electronics/Electrical Engineering, Data Science, or related technical field

• Employment Type: Full-time

• Location: Hyderabad

• Role Type: Permanent

Key responsibilities

- Design and implement automated reliability and resilience testing strategies.
- Develop test plans to simulate real-world system failures and identify weaknesses.
- Execute chaos engineering experiments covering network, hardware, and software faults.
- Utilize Linux as the core environment for debugging, testing, and infrastructure validation.
- Work with Docker and Kubernetes for containerized and orchestrated test environments.
- Build automation workflows using shell scripting and integrate them with testing frameworks.
- Implement fault injection scripts and techniques for controlled system disruption.




- Document failure modes and propose mitigation strategies to improve reliability.
- Collaborate with development, operations, and QA teams to align test execution with business needs.
- Communicate experiment results, impacts, and improvement recommendations to stakeholders.

Required Technical Skills

- Proficiency in Linux operating systems.
- Handson experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Strong shell scripting capability (Bash, Shell).
- Experience in automated testing or automation workflows.
- Practical exposure to chaos tools or fault injection techniques.
- Familiarity with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD).
- Experience with infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform or Ansible.

Key skills and experience required

- Strong understanding of reliability, resilience, and nonfunctional testing concepts.
- Practical exposure to chaos engineering methodologies and failure simulation.
- Handson experience in Linuxbased environments.
- Robust analytical and problemsolving abilities for system behavior diagnosis.
- Ability to work crossfunctionally with DevOps, SRE, and development teams.
- Clear communication and documentation skills for experiment results and system insights.

Good to have skills and experience required

- Exposure to AIpowered testing or automation tools.
- Experience with MLbased system insights or anomaly detection.
- Background in Python scripting for automation.
- Understanding of performance testing or site reliability engineering (SRE) practices.
- Knowledge of distributed systems behavior under failure conditions.

📌 Automated Reliability Test Engineer (Hyderabad)
🏢 National Payments Corporation Of India (NPCI)
📍 Hyderabad