Quality Engineer Technical Lead
Thales (company site, opens in a new tab)7+ yrsNoidaOn-siteDirect career pageEst. 14–26 LPA
Posted on 16 Sept
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About This Role
- Lead and own the quality engineering strategy focusing on automation framework development, performance validation, and embedding quality gates in CI/CD pipelines.
- Maintain and evolve a scalable Automation Suite framework covering functional, regression, integration, API, and performance tests to enhance team productivity and product quality.
- Troubleshoot Kubernetes-based distributed application issues using observability tools like Datadog and logging frameworks; mentor engineers and support customer escalations with root-cause analysis.
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electronics and Communication, or related discipline.
- 7+ years of experience in quality engineering including test automation, performance testing, and technical leadership.
- Strong hands-on skills in automation framework design and maintenance, programming in Java, Python, or JavaScript.
- Experience troubleshooting Kubernetes environments and using observability/monitoring tools (e.g., Datadog).
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Experienced quality engineer with demonstrated leadership in owning and evolving automation frameworks at team or program level.
- Proficient in integrating automated tests with CI/CD and embedding quality gates to improve release quality and engineering productivity.
- Comfortable operating in cloud-native, microservices, and distributed systems environments with strong analytical ability to diagnose performance and reliability issues.