What You'll Be Doing
- Understand product requirements, architecture, and customer workflows and design effective validation strategies.
- Build and scale API/UI automation frameworks and reusable engineering guardrails across DRE.
- Develop automated coverage for new product features, customer workflows, regressions, and production issues.
- Perform release validation and continuously reduce the manual effort required for releases.
- Move validation earlier in the SDLC by integrating automated checks into development, PR, and CI/CD workflows.
- Build developer tooling that provides fast and actionable feedback to engineering teams.
- Expand automation coverage across Windows, Linux, Airwave, and other areas with limited current coverage.
- Convert customer and requirement scenarios into reusable automated validation contracts.
- Investigate failures across UI, APIs, backend services, logs, databases, containers, devices, and environments.
- Debug backend/cloud issues and contribute code fixes when required.
- Use AI coding tools and agents to accelerate development, automation,



test generation, debugging, failure analysis, and maintenance.
- Improve the reliability, maintainability, and execution speed of existing automation.
- Contribute to Hard Commits, P3s, PFRs, backend/cloud engineering, and other DRE priorities as required.
- Partner with Engineering, Product, and Release teams to improve release confidence and developer velocity.

Skills & Abilities (Required)
3–5 years of relevant software testing/automation engineering experience.
- Solid software testing fundamentals and ability to design comprehensive validation strategies.
- Strong programming fundamentals in Java, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, or equivalent.
- Hands-on API testing and API automation experience.
- Hands-on UI automation experience using Playwright, Selenium, or equivalent.
- Experience designing/building reusable automation frameworks or test infrastructure.
- Good understanding o

📌 Software Development Engineer III (Bengaluru)
🏢 Esper
📍 Bengaluru