Senior Software Development Test Engineer

Druva; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,100,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Druva in Pune, India seeks a QA Automation Engineer to join an Agile development team and drive automated and manual testing across product features. You will design robust frameworks, implement test strategies, and own end‑to‑end quality for medium to complex features, collaborating with developers to improve testability and automation.

You will leverage AI-assisted testing tools and CI/CD practices, driving continuous improvement in test coverage, performance, and reliability in a fast-paced

Qualifications

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, troubleshooting, and debugging skills.
• AI tooling awareness with code-generation assistants and AI-driven testing solutions.
• Solid knowledge of QA methodologies, tools, and processes.
• Ability to estimate, prioritize, and plan work with technical leads.
• Experience with Windows and Linux operating systems.
• Experience with bug/test management tools like Jira/TestRail.
• Strong scripting skills (Python/Java).
• Familiarity with cloud concepts and CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of API testing and automation (RESTful APIs).
• Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases.

Responsibilities

• Be part of the Agile development team and work closely with developers.
• AI-Driven Quality Engineering: Evaluate, champion, and integrate AI-assisted testing tools and Generative AI workflows to accelerate test case generation, automation, and bug analysis.
• Develop a deep understanding of product features and enhancements, including functional specifications and design, with a focus on automated and manual, white-box and black-box testing.
• Plan, create, and manage the overall quality strategy.
• Collaborate with developers during product design reviews and provide inputs on functional requirements to improve testability and automation.
• Own end-to-end QA for medium to complex features.
• Collaborate across teams to strategize and plan long-term solutions for overall product and feature quality.
• Identify quality gaps and drive action items to address them.
• Develop and maintain a model to estimate automation ROI and continuously improve it.
• Evaluate and recommend new quality tools, technologies, and methodologies to improve productivity and quality.
• Plan test cycles, provide estimates, monitor and track progress, and participate in bug triaging and quality metrics tracking.
• Ensure timely builds and effectively manage product deployments.
• Drive reduction of overall COGS/Opex for test infrastructure.
• Design and architect modular, scalable, and reusable automated testing solutions.

Skills

AI Tooling & Awareness

Analytical thinking

QA methodologies

Planning & prioritization

Windows & Linux

Networking basics

Python/Java

CI/CD

RESTful APIs testing

SQL/NoSQL

Automation framework design

Tools

Jira

TestRail

Git

SVN

Jenkins

Selenium

Cypress

Puppeteer

Job description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Be part of the Agile development team and work closely with developers.
• AI-Driven Quality Engineering: Evaluate, champion, and integrate AI-assisted testing tools and Generative AI workflows to accelerate test case generation, automation, and bug analysis.
• Develop a deep understanding of product features and enhancements, including functional specifications and design, with a focus on automated and manual, white-box and black-box testing.
• Plan, create, and manage the overall quality strategy.
• Collaborate with developers during product design reviews and provide inputs on functional requirements to improve testability and automation.
• Own end-to-end QA for medium to complex features.
• Collaborate across teams to strategize and plan long-term solutions for overall product and feature quality.
• Identify quality gaps and drive action items to address them.
• Develop and maintain a model to estimate automation ROI and continuously improve it.
• Evaluate and recommend new quality tools, technologies, and methodologies to improve productivity and quality.
• Plan test cycles, provide estimates, monitor and track progress, and participate in bug triaging and quality metrics tracking.
• Ensure timely builds and effectively manage product deployments.
• Drive reduction of overall COGS/Opex for test infrastructure.
• Design and architect modular, scalable, and reusable automated testing solutions.

Key Skills

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, troubleshooting, and debugging skills.
• AI Tooling & Awareness: Practical experience with AI coding assistants (e.g., Copilot, Claude, Cursor) for code generation and debugging, with awareness of AI-driven testing solutions.
• Strong knowledge of QA methodologies, tools, and processes.
• Ability to estimate, prioritize, and plan work with technical leads.
• Good understanding of operating systems (Windows and Linux).
• Understanding of threads, multiprocessing
• Good understanding of basic networking concepts.
• Experience with bug and test management tools such as Jira, TestRail, etc.
• Experience with version control systems such as Git, SVN, etc.
• Good shell scripting skills.
• Strong programming skills in one or more languages such as Python, Java.
• Familiarity with cloud architecture and concepts.
• Experience with security, scale, and performance testing.
• Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases such as MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, MongoDB, Cassandra, etc.
• Experience building automation pipelines and working with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins.
• Experience designing automation frameworks and tools.
• Knowledge of front-end web application test automation tools such as Selenium, Cypress, or Puppeteer.
• Knowledge of RESTful APIs and API testing/automation.
• Understanding of Agile testing methodologies, test pyramid, and quality metrics.
• Experience with white-box testing and methodologies such as TDD and BDD.

Pluses

• Cloud computing experience.
• Storage domain experience.