Senior Test Engineer

Ericsson AB; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Ericsson AB in India (Bangalore) is seeking an experienced CIS Test Architect to define and lead the quality engineering, test automation, performance engineering, and resilience strategy for enterprise-scale distributed systems.

The successful candidate will provide technical leadership across the full testing lifecycle, improve automation coverage, strengthen platform resilience, and increase release confidence in high-transaction telecom environments.

Qualifications

• 8–15 years of experience in software testing, quality engineering, test architecture, or performance engineering.
• 2–5 years hands-on experience with CIS Solutions is mandatory.
• Strong experience in test strategy and architecture for enterprise-scale distributed systems.
• Experience with high-transaction environments, preferably 10,000+ TPS.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the overall test strategy, architecture, and roadmap for CIS solutions.
• Lead functional, system integration, API, database, and UAT activities.
• Own test planning, estimation, management, execution governance, and quality reporting.
• Design scalable automation frameworks and integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and GitLab.
• Plan and execute load, stress, endurance, scalability, and performance testing.

Skills

Quality engineering leadership

Test architecture

Communication skills

Team mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Tools

Selenium

Karate

Python

Groovy

Shell scripting

Jenkins

GitLab

Grafana

Prometheus

ELK Stack

Infinispan

Job description

Join our Team

About this opportunity:

We are seeking an experienced CIS Test Architect to define and lead the quality engineering, test automation, performance engineering, and resilience strategy for enterprise-scale distributed systems. The successful candidate will provide technical leadership across the full testing lifecycle, improve automation coverage, strengthen platform resilience, and increase release confidence in high-transaction telecom environments.

What you will do

• Define and maintain the overall test strategy, test architecture, and roadmap for CIS solutions.
• Lead functional, system integration, API, database, and UAT activities.
• Own test planning, estimation, test management, execution governance, and quality reporting.
• Design scalable automation frameworks using Selenium, Karate, Python, Shell Scripting, and Groovy.
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitLab.
• Plan and execute load, stress, endurance, scalability, and performance testing.
• Perform bottleneck analysis across application, database, middleware, infrastructure, and network layers.
• Lead resilience testing covering failover, recovery, high availability, and disaster recovery.
• Validate distributed systems, microservices, cloud-native architectures, and Infinispan or similar in-memory data grids.
• Analyze thread and heap dumps and support JVM performance tuning.
• Establish monitoring and troubleshooting practices using Grafana, Prometheus, and ELK Stack.
• Collaborate with development, architecture, DevOps, infrastructure, operations, and customer teams.
• Support production incident analysis, root-cause investigations, and preventive quality improvements.
• Contribute to technical presentations, customer discussions, design reviews, and solution assessments.
• Define quality objectives, track success metrics, mentor test engineers, and promote engineering best practices.

Skills you bring

Required Qualifications

• 8–15 years of experience in software testing, quality engineering, test architecture, or performance engineering.
• 2–5 years of hands‑on experience with CIS Solutions is mandatory.
• Strong experience in test strategy and architecture for enterprise‑scale distributed systems.
• Experience with high‑transaction environments, preferably 10,000+ TPS.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.

Preferred Experience

• Telecom platforms and large‑scale transaction processing systems.
• Infinispan or comparable in‑memory data grids.
• Production incident analysis and performance tuning.
• Highly available and geographically distributed systems.
• Cloud‑native platforms and containerized deployments.
• Working in matrix organizations and collaborating across technical teams.

Preferred Competencies

• Strong analytical and structured problem‑solving skills.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Excellent customer focus and stakeholder management.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly.
• Confidence in technical presentations and customer discussions.
• Strong ownership of quality, delivery outcomes, and continuous improvement.
• Ability to mentor engineers and influence engineering practices across teams.

"All academic credentials must be from recognized and accredited institutions and are further subject to verification."

Why join Ericsson?

At Ericsson, you´ll have an outstanding opportunity. The chance to use your skills and imagination to push the boundaries of what´s possible. To build solutions never seen before to some of the world’s toughest problems. You´ll be challenged, but you won’t be alone. You´ll be joining a team of diverse innovators, all driven to go beyond the status quo to craft what comes next.

Encouraging a diverse and inclusive organization is core to our values at Ericsson, that's why we champion it in everything we do. We truly believe that by collaborating with people with different experiences we drive innovation, which is essential for our future growth. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and realize their full potential as part of our Ericsson team. Ericsson is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. learn more.

Primary country and city: India (IN) || Bangalore