24 hours ago
Noida, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead the quality engineering charter covering automation strategy, test framework ownership, performance validation, release quality, and continuous improvement.
- Own, maintain, and evolve the team’s Automation Suite framework for functional, regression, integration, API, and end-to-end testing.
- Define automation standards, reusable utilities, test data strategies, reporting, and execution patterns.
- Build performance tests for scalability, load, reliability, benchmarking, and performance regression detection.
- Embed automation, regression, and performance quality gates into CI/CD pipelines with development, DevOps, and product teams.
- Troubleshoot Kubernetes deployments, including pod failures, service connectivity, resource constraints, configuration issues, and runtime problems.
- Use Datadog, logs, metrics, dashboards, traces, and alerts for observability and root-cause analysis.
- Mentor quality engineers and developers on automation, testability, performance analysis, defect investigation, and engineering practices.
- Support customer escalations by reproducing issues, analyzing telemetry, validating fixes, and adding preventative automated coverage.
- Drive improvements in automation reliability, execution speed, test coverage, performance benchmarking, observability, and quality processes.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, electronics and communication, or a related discipline.
- 7+ years of experience in quality engineering, test automation, performance testing, and technical leadership.
- Strong hands-on experience designing, developing, maintaining, and scaling automation frameworks for API, UI, integration, regression, and end-to-end coverage.
- Experience leading an Automation Suite framework, including architecture, reusable components, orchestration, reporting, maintainability, and adoption by multiple engineers.
- Programming skills in Java, Python, JavaScript, or a comparable automation language.
- Strong experience with performance testing, load and scalability testing, baselines, bottleneck identification, trend analysis, and performance regression validation.
- Experience troubleshooting Kubernetes-based environments, including deployments, pods, services, ingress, configuration, resource utilization, and logs.
- Hands-on exposure to observability and monitoring tools such as Datadog and the ability to analyze dashboards, metrics, traces, alerts, and service health indicators.
- Understanding of logging frameworks and log analysis for debugging, triage, root-cause analysis, and production investigations.
- Experience integrating automation suites with CI/CD pipelines and implementing reliable quality gates.
- Exposure to cloud-native applications, microservices, Docker, Kubernetes, and distributed systems.
- Ability to mentor team members, review automation code, improve test design, and collaborate with engineering, DevOps, and product stakeholders.
Benefits
- Career mobility and development opportunities across Thales’s global organization.
- Flexible working approach and a supportive culture focused on respect, trust, collaboration, and inclusion.
- Work location: Noida Berger Tower, India.
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About Thales
Thales designs and sells defense, aerospace, space, and digital identity/cybersecurity systems to governments, armed forces, infrastructure operators, and enterprises. Its portfolio spans avionics, radars and sensors, satellites, air traffic management, secure communications, and cybersecurity and identity solutions (bolstered by the 2019 Gemalto acquisition). Headquartered in Meudon, France, Thales is publicly traded on Euronext Paris (HO) and reported €20.6 billion in sales in 2024.