Eightfold

Test Architect

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6 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive end-to-end test architecture, standards, and quality strategy across products and services.
  • Own testing strategies across unit, API/contract, integration, UI, and end-to-end layers.
  • Design CI/CD quality gates and establish trustworthy releasability standards.
  • Lead performance, scalability, reliability, resilience, security, and data-quality testing.
  • Build test-data management and environment strategies for sensitive, multi-tenant enterprise data.
  • Define and monitor quality metrics including coverage, escape rate, flakiness, MTTR, and release confidence.
  • Mentor SDETs and QA engineers and influence engineering-wide quality culture.
  • Own quality assurance for LLM-powered copilots and agents, including groundedness, hallucination, prompt regression, guardrail, safety, and red-team testing.
  • Drive AI-accelerated testing through generated test cases, self-healing automation, intelligent triage, coverage analysis, and synthetic test-data generation.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering, preferably a B.E. or B.Tech in computer science or a related discipline.
  • 10+ years of experience in software quality or engineering, including several years as a test architect, principal SDET, or equivalent quality owner at platform scale.
  • Strong coding and test automation ability in one or more of Python, Java, and JavaScript/TypeScript.
  • Experience with Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, or similar frameworks and solid API/contract testing expertise.
  • Experience designing test architecture and CI/CD quality gates in cloud-native environments.
  • Experience with performance/load testing tools such as k6, JMeter, or Gatling, along with reliability and security fundamentals.
  • Experience testing data- or ML-driven systems or demonstrated ability to ramp quickly into new technical domains.
  • Strong judgment, cross-team influence, communication, problem-solving, analytical, independent-work, and collaboration skills.
  • Bonus experience with LLM/GenAI evaluations, RAG evaluation, prompt regression, LLM-as-judge methods, evaluation frameworks, ML pipelines, model performance, responsible AI, enterprise multi-tenant SaaS, regulated domains, or AI-assisted QA tooling.

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About Eightfold

501-1,000 employees

Eightfold AI provides a subscription Talent Intelligence Platform that uses machine learning to support talent acquisition, internal mobility, and workforce upskilling for large organizations. Its software integrates with common ATS and HRIS systems and is deployed globally in more than 155 countries and 24 languages. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Eightfold is a privately held company.

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