Senior Software Test Engineer
Smiths Group plc1 day ago
Bengaluru, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute comprehensive test cases covering software functionality, performance, scalability, and security.
- Contribute to automated test scripts and frameworks for system-level, backend, and front-end applications.
- Conduct API, manual, exploratory, functional, regression, integration, and service-dependency testing.
- Identify, reproduce, document, track, and help resolve software defects and performance issues.
- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and support deployment validation across environments.
- Use version control and test management tools to maintain test scripts, cases, and testing artifacts.
- Prepare test reports, track coverage and defect metrics, and contribute to test planning and automation strategy.
- Collaborate with developers, product owners, DevOps teams, and testers to improve testing processes and product quality.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
- 4–7 years of hands-on experience testing distributed, microservices-based applications, including test strategy definition, design, execution, and maintenance.
- Strong expertise with Robot Framework and Python for service-level and end-to-end testing.
- Proficiency in RESTful API testing, including contract validation, payload verification, error handling, and service dependency checks.
- Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes for deployment validation and scalability testing.
- Working knowledge of cloud platforms and deployment models.
- Experience supporting applications delivered through CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Bitbucket.
- Proficiency with Jira, Confluence, TestRail, and Git.
- Understanding of software development lifecycles, microservices concepts, and testing methodologies.
- Ability to write clear test cases, maintain documentation, track quality metrics, and collaborate across development, DevOps, and testing teams.
- Preferred qualifications include advanced automation or test-environment scripting, testing or cloud certifications, performance testing and monitoring experience, and security testing or compliance validation familiarity.
- Strong analytical, communication, collaboration, time-management, and organizational skills.
Benefits
- Office presence is required four days per week.
- Training and local and global career-growth opportunities are provided.
- Inclusive workplace with leadership support and a focus on safety and wellbeing.
- Flexible benefits supporting health, wellbeing, financial, lifestyle, and family needs.
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About Smiths Group plc
Smiths Group plc designs, manufactures, and services engineered products for industrial, energy, aerospace, security, and medical markets through businesses including John Crane, Smiths Detection, Flex‑Tek, and Smiths Interconnect. It sells equipment and aftermarket services to governments and commercial customers worldwide, generating recurring service revenue alongside product sales. Founded in 1851 and headquartered in London, it is publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange.