Senior Principal Platform Engineer - QA

Mployee.me; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Mployee.me is seeking a Senior Principal Platform Engineer - QA to shape and evolve our quality engineering platform across cloud products. You will define testing standards, build scalable test automation, and mentor teams to treat automation as a customer-focused capability.

The role emphasizes IaC, AI-assisted engineering, SLOs, observability, and eliminating toil. You will collaborate with Engineering Director, Platform Architect, Product Owner, and Reliability teams to drive quality

Qualifications

• 15+ years in software or platform engineering, with 3+ years leading quality or test engineering for tenant platforms at enterprise scale.
• Deep hands-on Terraform experience.
• Strong policy-as-code skills around OPA/Rego.
• Production experience on Azure and GCP; working knowledge of Kubernetes and GitOps.
• Built CI/CD quality gates in GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps or similar.
• Proficient in at least one of Python, Go or TypeScript for test frameworks and tooling.
• Experience in a regulated industry (life sciences, pharma, finance or healthcare), including GxP or equivalent validation.
• Track record of setting technical direction across multiple teams without direct authority.

Responsibilities

• Define the platform quality engineering strategy, test pyramid and quality gates for all cloud platform products.
• Build shift-left quality into CI/CD: automated gates for security, compliance, cost and drift before merge and release.
• Modernise qualification from document-heavy validation to risk-based, automated Assurance.
• Own test frameworks for VM, OS, database and container image bakeries: CIS benchmarks, vulnerability thresholds, SBOM and signing checks.
• Define evaluation frameworks for platform AI agents: accuracy, safety guardrail.
• Set quality metrics and SLOs, report them to platform and security leadership, and drive corrective actions.

Skills

Terraform

OPA/Rego

Kubernetes

GitOps

GitHub Actions

Python

Go

TypeScript

Sigstore/cosign

Job description

Job Purpose

The Senior Principal Platform Engineer - QA will help shape and evolve the organisations quality engineering platform, enabling teams to build, test, deploy and operate software faster, more securely, and more reliably. The QA role will set the testing and quality standards helping to build test automation that can be adopted across platform and application teams. They will also mentor the engineers around them, and treats the teams who consume the test automation as customers. The role works through infrastructure-as-code and golden paths rather than manual configuration, uses AI-assisted engineering across code generation, review and testing, and engineers reliability in by defining SLOs, instrumenting for observability and automating away toil. Engineering roadmap and direction sit with the Engineering Director, reference architecture and standards sit with the Platform Architect, backlog order sits with the Product Owner, and deep reliability engineering sits with the Site Reliability Engineer deployed from Reliability Engineering Operations.

Key responsibilities

Quality strategy and architecture

• Define the platform quality engineering strategy, test pyramid and quality gates for all cloud platform products.

Continuous verification and automation

• Build shift-left quality into CI/CD: automated gates for security, compliance, cost and drift before merge and release.

GxP and computerised system assurance

• Modernise qualification from document-heavy validation to risk-based, automated Assurance.

Images, supply chain and security quality

• Own test frameworks for VM, OS, database and container image bakeries: CIS benchmarks, vulnerability thresholds, SBOM and signing checks.

AI and agentic platform quality

• Define evaluation frameworks for platform AI agents: accuracy, safety guardrail.

Engineering leadership

• Set quality metrics and SLOs, report them to platform and security leadership, and drive corrective actions.

Required experience and skills

• 15+ years in software or platform engineering, with 3+ years leading quality or test engineering for tenant platforms at enterprise scale.
• Deep hands-on Terraform experience
• Strong policy-as-code skills around OPA/Rego
• Production experience on Azure and GCP; working knowledge of Kubernetes and GitOps
• Built CI/CD quality gates in GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps or similar.
• Proficient in at least one of Python, Go or TypeScript for test frameworks and tooling.
• Experience in a regulated industry (life sciences, pharma, finance or healthcare), including GxP or equivalent validation.
• Track record of setting technical direction across multiple teams without direct authority.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience testing LLM-based or agentic systems
• Familiarity with software supply chain standards: SLSA, SBOM (SPDX/CycloneDX), Sigstore/cosign.
• Chaos engineering tools such as Azure Chaos Studio, LitmusChaos or Gremlin.
• Experience with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Azure Arc or hybrid estates.
• Certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Google Professional Cloud Architect, ISTQB Advanced or CKA.

Leadership behaviours and ways of working

• Quality as an engineering discipline: builds automation and paved roads, not manual sign-off queues.
• Risk-based judgement: scales testing rigour to patient, product and data-integrity impact.
• Influence without authority: aligns platform, security, Quality and GRC stakeholders on shared standards.
• Hands-on credibility: writes and reviews code, and can debug a failing pipeline alongside the team.
• Clear communicator: turns quality data into decisions for senior leadership and auditors alike.

Skills

• Terraform
• OPA/Rego
• Kubernetes
• GitOps
• GitHub Actions
• Python
• Go
• TypeScript
• Sigstore/cosign