Principal Engineer, Test Automation

Baxter International; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,500,000 - 7,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Baxter International Inc. seeks a Principal Automation Engineer with 10+ years of experience to define automation architecture, technical roadmaps, and standards for API, UI, integration, and end-to-end testing. You will lead scalable C#/.NET frameworks, establish CI/CD quality gates, and guide cross-team adoption across distributed products.

The ideal candidate is a systems-oriented QA who can decompose requirements to capture holistic use cases and mentor automation engineers across teams.

Qualifications

• Systems-oriented Quality Engineer who sees broader product architecture and decomposes requirements into use cases.
• Hands-on Automation Architect with advanced C#/.NET skills and extensible architecture.
• Experience architecting REST API automation frameworks using RestSharp.
• Strong hands-on experience with NUnit, Selenium or Playwright.
• Knowledge of GraphQL and validating GraphQL APIs.
• Solid understanding of test data management principles and reusable data provisioning.
• Experience with Kubernetes and containerized test environments.
• Expertise in API contracts, distributed systems, microservices, and service virtualization.
• Proven ability to improve framework reliability and drive cross-team adoption.
• Strong technical leadership and stakeholder communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Own automation architecture and roadmap for C#-based REST API, UI, integration, and workflow testing.
• Design modular frameworks with reusable libraries for config, service clients, page objects, test data, parallel execution, logging, reporting, and env management.
• Define coding standards, branching, framework governance, versioning, and documentation.
• Establish pipeline strategy for PR validation, daily smoke tests, staged regression, and release qualification.
• Guide teams on automation suitability, testability, coverage modelling, and reducing flaky tests.
• Lead technical reviews, framework migrations, tool evaluations, and cross-service debugging.
• Define dashboards and metrics for coverage, reliability, and productivity gains.
• Partner with architecture, software, DevOps, cybersecurity, systems, and verification leaders to embed quality.
• Mentor automation engineers and build engineering capability via reusable assets and communities of practice.

Skills

Systems-oriented QA

Automation Architect

REST API automation

Automation frameworks

UI testing tools

GraphQL validation

Test data management

Kubernetes

Git & CI/CD

Leadership & mentoring

Education

B.E./B.Tech in CS/ECE/EE or related

Tools

RestSharp

NUnit

Selenium

Playwright

Git

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Job description

This is where your work makes a difference.

At Baxter, we believe every person—regardless of who they are or where they are from—deserves a chance to live a healthy life. It was our founding belief in 1931 and continues to be our guiding principle. We are redefining healthcare delivery to make a greater impact today, tomorrow, and beyond.

Our Baxter colleagues are united by our Mission to Save and Sustain Lives. Together, our community is driven by a culture of courage, trust, and collaboration. Every individual is empowered to take ownership and make a meaningful impact. We strive for efficient and effective operations, and we hold each other accountable for delivering exceptional results.

Here, you will find more than just a job—you will find purpose and pride.

We are seeking a Principal Automation Engineer with 10+ years of experience defining automation architecture, technical roadmaps, and engineering standards for API, UI, integration, and end-to-end testing. The ideal candidate is a systems-oriented Quality Engineer who understands how products and services interconnect, sees the broader product architecture, and can decompose requirements to capture use cases holistically. This hands-on role will lead the development of scalable C#/.NET frameworks, establish CI/CD quality gates, guide cross-team adoption, and resolve complex automation and testability challenges across distributed products.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the enterprise-grade automation architecture and roadmap for C#-based REST API, UI, integration, and workflow testing.
• Design modular frameworks with reusable libraries for configuration, service clients, page or component objects, test data, parallel execution, retries, logging, reporting, and environment management.
• Define coding standards, branching and review practices, framework governance, versioning, documentation, and contribution models.
• Establish pipeline strategy for pull-request validation, daily smoke tests, staged regression, release qualification, and automated quality gates.
• Guide teams on automation suitability, testability, coverage modelling, risk-based selection, and reduction of flaky or low-value tests.
• Lead technical reviews, proofs of concept, framework migrations, tool evaluations, and resolution of complex cross-service failures.
• Define dashboards and metrics for coverage, reliability, execution time, defect containment, failure causes, and productivity gains.
• Partner with architecture, software, DevOps, cybersecurity, systems, and verification leaders to embed quality throughout delivery.
• Mentor automation engineers and build engineering capability through reusable assets, coaching, and technical communities of practice.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Mandatory: Systems-oriented Quality Engineer with a strong understanding of how products, services, and components interconnect; able to see the broader product architecture and decompose requirements to capture use cases holistically.
• Mandatory: Hands-on Automation Architect with advanced C# and .NET skills and a strong understanding of software design principles, dependency injection, concurrency, asynchronous execution, and extensible architecture.
• Mandatory: Hands-on experience architecting and developing REST API automation frameworks using RestSharp.
• Mandatory: Strong hands-on experience with NUnit or Selenium or playwright for test automation.
• Mandatory: Working knowledge of GraphQL (GQL) and experience validating GraphQL APIs.
• Mandatory: Solid understanding of test data management principles, strategies, and reusable data provisioning approaches.
• Mandatory: Strong awareness of Kubernetes and containerized test environments.
• Expertise in API contracts, distributed systems, microservices, event-driven integrations, databases, authentication, authorization, and service virtualization.
• Deep experience with Git, CI/CD architecture, parallel execution, automated reporting, and quality gates.
• Proven ability to improve framework reliability, diagnose flaky tests, optimize execution, and drive adoption across multiple teams.
• Strong technical leadership, stakeholder communication, mentoring, and architecture decision-making skills.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Allure reporting is preferred.
• Experience with Postman is good to have.
• Experience with Azure, Docker, infrastructure-as-code, message brokers, observability platforms, and cloud-native test environments.
• Experience validating healthcare platforms, HL7/FHIR integrations, connected devices, or regulated software products.
• Knowledge of security, accessibility, performance, reliability, and resilience testing within a unified automation strategy.
• Relevant Microsoft, cloud, architecture, or testing certification is advantageous.
• Knowledge of SIP infrastructure and media components such as Kamailio, FreeSWITCH, RTPEngine, SBCs, registrars, RTP, and WebRTC.
• Experience with Azure Key Vault, Azure App Configuration, Azure Cache for Redis, Azure Web PubSub, Terraform, KEDA, and container security tooling.
• Familiarity with IEC 62304, ISO 13485, risk management, cybersecurity expectations, and quality systems for regulated healthcare software.
• Experience with Jira, Jama, validated toolchains, Agile/Scrum delivery, and formal release-readiness reviews.
• Experience leading a team of automation testers toward a common goal.

Qualifications

B.E/B. Tech in Computer Science / Electronics & Communication / Electrical or related field

Equal Employment Opportunity

Baxter is an equal opportunity employer. Baxter evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.

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