Senior SDET Engineer

Centific; Hyderabad; Hybrid; INR 1,200,000 - 2,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Centific in Hyderabad, India, is seeking a talented QA Automation professional to advance Windows desktop automation. The role focuses on building robust, maintainable automation frameworks using C# and UFT, plus SilkTest and Silk Central for test management and reporting.

The candidate should excel at designing tests with objective acceptance criteria, and navigate a large legacy codebase with reliability and care. Knowledge of UI Automation and scripting skills is a plus.

Qualifications

• Proven experience building and maintaining automation frameworks for Windows desktop apps.
• Hands-on automation of functional and regression tests using UFT or equivalent.
• Experience with SilkTest for automated scripts and Silk Central for test management.
• Knowledge of UI Automation frameworks (UIA/MSAA) and accessibility considerations.

Responsibilities

• C#: Strong programming experience for building and maintaining robust automation frameworks and test scripts.
• UFT: Automate functional and regression tests for Windows desktop apps.
• SilkTest: Author and maintain automated functional/regression scripts.
• Silk Central: Use for test management, execution planning, and results reporting.
• UI Automation: Working knowledge of UIA and MSAA in legacy desktop apps.
• Design test cases with measurable acceptance criteria and drive defects from triage to closure.
• Comfort working in a large, legacy enterprise Windows codebase with established patterns and constraints.

Skills

C#

UI Automation

Test design

Defect lifecycle

Windows desktop automation

Tools

UFT

SilkTest

Silk Central

UIA

MSAA

Scripting (PowerShell/Python)

Job description

Role & responsibilities

• C#: Strong programming experience for building and maintaining robust, maintainable automation frameworks and test scripts.
• UFT (Unified Functional Testing): Hands-on experience automating functional and regression tests for Windows desktop applications.
• SilkTest: Demonstrated experience authoring and maintaining automated functional/regression scripts.
• Silk Central: Practical experience using Silk Central for test management, execution, scheduling, and results reporting.
• UI Automation / Accessibility Frameworks: Working knowledge of UIA and MSAA, and the fragility of COM / UI automation in legacy desktop apps.
• Test Design and Defect Lifecycle: Ability to design test cases with measurable, quantified acceptance criteria (e.g., launch time, CPU/memory ceilings, recognition accuracy baselines) rather than subjective pass/fail, and to drive defects from triage to closure.
• Comfort working in a large, legacy enterprise Windows codebase with established patterns and constraints.

Nice To Have Skills

• Background in speech, audio, NLP, or accessibility products (a plus, not required if Windows desktop automation depth is strong).
• Experience automating across Office integration surfaces (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams) and WebView2-based surfaces relevant to New Outlook (Monarch) and Copilot.
• Familiarity with installer-driven release risk, smoke-test gating, and regression exit criteria as delivery signals.
• Exposure to performance, stability, and long-session validation for desktop applications.
• Scripting beyond C# (e.g., PowerShell/Python) for test data, environment setup, and CI integration.