Senior Software Testing Automation

RSA Security USA LLC; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

RSA Security USA LLC in Bengaluru, India seeks a Senior Software QA Engineer focused on test automation and performance engineering. The role involves building scalable automation frameworks, driving performance testing, and ensuring CI/CD integration for cloud-native and microservices-based applications.

The candidate will design strategies, create automated test suites, and collaborate with DevOps and development teams to optimize system performance and reliability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering, IT, or related field.
• 7+ years of experience in software quality engineering with automation and performance testing.
• Strong experience designing automation frameworks and performance testing solutions.
• Hands-on expertise with Agile/Scrum and DevOps practices.
• Experience with cloud-native and microservices-based applications.

Responsibilities

• Define testing strategies, objectives, and success criteria.
• Design and maintain scalable automation frameworks for web, API, and backend apps.
• Create automated functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end tests.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with developers to identify test scenarios and acceptance criteria.
• Improve test coverage and reduce manual testing via automation.
• Review and enhance automation processes and frameworks.
• Analyze results, identify defects, and coordinate fixes.
• Design and execute load, stress, and scalability tests.
• Identify bottlenecks across app, database, and infra layers.
• Provide optimization recommendations based on metrics.
• Work with DevOps/architecture teams to improve performance.
• Validate scalability and reliability under peak workloads.
• Monitor performance baselines across releases.

Skills

Automation

Performance testing

CI/CD

Cloud-native apps

Microservices

Agile/Scrum

DevOps

Selenium WebDriver

JUnit/TestNG

Java

C#/JavaScript

JMeter

LoadRunner

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI/CD

Linux

Networking

Education

Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science/engineering/IT

Tools

Selenium WebDriver

JMeter

LoadRunner

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI/CD

Linux

Job description

About this position

RSA provides trusted identity and access management for 12,000 organizations around the world, managing 25 million enterprise identities and providing secure, convenient access to millions of users. RSA specializes in empowering security‑first organizations in financial services, healthcare, energy, technology services, and other industries to thrive in a digital world, delivering complete capabilities for modern authentication, access, lifecycle management, and identity governance. Whether in the cloud or on‑premises, RSA connects people with the digital resources they depend on everywhere they live, work, and play.

For decades, RSA has pioneered many of the encryption, authentication, and identity federation technologies that still power the internet. And now RSA is transforming the industry yet again, paving the way for the future of digital identity through the RSA Unified Identity Platform; next‑generation hybrid and cloud solutions; the first ever and only multi‑functional, passwordless hardware authenticator; and a frictionless, mobile‑optimized experience for the modern workforce.

We are seeking a highly skilled Software Testing and Test Automation engineer to drive quality engineering initiatives across functional, automation, and performance testing domains. The ideal candidate will be responsible for building scalable test automation frameworks, designing performance testing strategies, and ensuring applications meet quality, reliability, scalability, and availability requirements.

This role requires strong technical expertise in test automation, performance engineering, CI/CD integration, cloud technologies, and modern software architectures.

Principal Responsibilities

• Define testing strategies, objectives, and success criteria.
• Design, develop, and maintain robust and scalable automation frameworks for web, API, performance, and backend applications.
• Create and execute automated functional, regression, integration, and end‑to‑end test suites.
• Integrate automated test execution into CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with developers and product teams to identify test scenarios and acceptance criteria.
• Improve test coverage and reduce manual testing efforts through automation.
• Review and enhance existing automation processes and frameworks.
• Analyze test results, identify defects, and work with development teams for resolution.
• Design and execute load, stress, spike, endurance, scalability, and capacity tests.
• Identify application bottlenecks across application, database, network, and infrastructure layers.
• Analyze performance metrics and provide optimization recommendations.
• Work closely with developers, architects, DevOps, and operations teams to improve system performance.
• Validate system scalability and reliability under expected and peak workloads.
• Establish performance baselines and monitor trends across releases.
• Support production readiness reviews and performance tuning initiatives.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering, information technology, or related field.
• 7+ years of experience in software quality engineering with a strong focus on automation and performance testing.
• Strong experience designing automation frameworks and performance testing solutions.
• Hands‑on expertise with Agile/Scrum methodologies and DevOps practices.
• Experience working with cloud‑native and microservices‑based applications.

Technical Skills

• Selenium WebDriver
• TestNG / JUnit
• Java (Preferred)
• C#JavaScript
• Apache JMeter
• LoadRunner
• Jenkins
• GitHub Actions
• GitLab CI/CD
• Linux / Virtualization / Networking

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of monolith, distributed systems, event‑driven architecture, and microservices.
• Familiarity with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) concepts.
• Experience leveraging AI‑powered testing and quality engineering tools.

Soft skills

• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
• Ability to influence engineering teams with data‑driven recommendations.
• Self‑motivated and capable of working in a fast‑paced environment.
• Strong mentoring and technical leadership skills.

Success Metrics

80% plus automation coverage for critical business workflows; reduced regression execution time through automation; early identification of performance bottlenecks during development cycles; improved application scalability and release quality; successful CI/CD integration of automation and performance tests; achievement of defined SLA, SLO, and performance goals.

Experience Range: 7–12 Years – Role Level: Senior Software Engineer / Lead QA Engineer / Senior Quality Engineer – Reporting To: Engineering Manager / QA Manager / Quality Engineering Lead

If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application process, please contact the RSA Talent Acquisition Team at [e-mail]. RSA and its approved consultants will never ask you for a fee to process or consider your application for a career with RSA. RSA reserves the right to amend or withdraw any job posting at any time, including prior to the advertised closing date.