Principal Test Engineer
zenda
- Location
- Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India
- Job type
- Full-time
Required skills
- API
- CI
- compliance
- Cypress
- Datadog
- DevOps
- Docker
- GitHub
- Jenkins
- Kafka
- Kubernetes
- microservices
- RabbitMQ
- Redis
- Selenium
- SRE
- test automation
About the role
zenda
Website:
zenda.com
Job details:
Responsibilities
- Define and drive organisation-wide QA and test automation strategy
- Architect scalable automation frameworks for web, mobile, API, and microservices testing
- Integrate automated quality gates into CI/CD pipelines and release workflows
- Lead testing for distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and cloud-native platforms
- Drive performance, scalability, reliability, and resilience testing initiatives
- Lead adoption of AI-assisted testing practices — including test generation, optimisation, and defect analysis
- Improve production quality through observability, monitoring, and engineering metrics
- Ensure security, compliance, and secure testing practices across platforms
- Mentor quality engineers and promote an automation-first quality culture
- Collaborate with Engineering, DevOps, SRE, Product, and Architecture teams
Requirements
- 10+ years in Quality Engineering, Test Automation, or Software Testing
- Hands-on experience with Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or Appium
- Deep understanding of APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and cloud-native architectures
- Experience with CI/CD tools — GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI
- Hands-on with Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka/RabbitMQ, Redis, and databases
- Experience with performance testing tools — k6, JMeter, or Gatling
- Familiarity with observability tools — Datadog, Grafana, or Prometheus
- Strong understanding of security and compliance testing practices
- Proven technical leadership and cross-team collaboration skills
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