Software Engineer
Qualys, Inc.3 days ago
Pune, IndiaMid Level / Senior
Responsibilities
- Own assigned features across the full software development lifecycle, including requirements, design, development, automation, release, deployment, and production support.
- Design and develop scalable Java backend services, REST APIs, microservices, and platform components.
- Build and maintain reusable automation frameworks, libraries, utilities, and test-data components.
- Create automated API, integration, backend workflow, UI, end-to-end, and regression coverage using tools such as Rest Assured, Playwright, and Selenium.
- Validate complex workflows across APIs, microservices, databases, messaging systems, downstream services, and asynchronous event-driven systems.
- Integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines, establish quality gates, and optimize execution through parallelization.
- Own automated regression and release validation while ensuring production readiness for new functionality.
- Analyze failures, perform root cause analysis, and troubleshoot application, database, messaging, container, and infrastructure issues.
- Contribute to architecture, scalability, reliability, performance, observability, and testability improvements.
- Troubleshoot production and pre-production issues and collaborate with Development, QA, SRE, and other engineering teams on corrective solutions.
- Adopt AI-assisted development and automation tools to improve software quality and engineering productivity.
Requirements
- 3–5 years of experience in software development, automation engineering, or a combination of both.
- Strong hands-on Java programming experience and understanding of object-oriented programming, data structures, concurrency, and software design principles.
- Strong hands-on experience developing test automation and automation frameworks rather than only executing existing scripts.
- Experience developing REST APIs, microservices, distributed systems, unit tests, integration tests, API tests, and end-to-end automated tests.
- Experience with API automation, preferably Rest Assured or an equivalent tool, and UI automation using Playwright, Selenium, or similar technologies.
- Understanding of REST APIs, HTTP, JSON, authentication, distributed workflows, software quality, regression testing, and release validation.
- Experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar messaging technologies.
- Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and container registries such as Docker Hub, OpenShift, or JFrog Artifactory.
- Strong understanding of databases, SQL, data validation, and data modeling; exposure to Oracle and NoSQL technologies such as Cassandra, Elasticsearch, and Redis.
- Ability to debug and troubleshoot independently across multiple layers of distributed systems, with strong root cause analysis skills.
- Preferred experience with SaaS, cloud security, cybersecurity, OT/ICS, enterprise-scale platforms, automation framework improvements, distributed test execution, test data management, automation optimization, observability, monitoring, SRE practices, and production reliability engineering.
- Preferred experience using AI-assisted engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, or Claude Code, and applying AI to development, testing, debugging, or automation.
- Familiarity with MCP integrations, agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, LLM-based automation, and AI-powered developer or testing tools.
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
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About Qualys, Inc.
Qualys builds a cloud-based security and compliance platform used by enterprises to automate vulnerability management, IT asset visibility, web application scanning, and policy/PCI compliance across on‑prem and cloud environments. Delivered as subscription SaaS, its Enterprise TruRisk Platform uses a single agent to provide continuous security telemetry for endpoints, servers, containers, and clouds. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Foster City, California, Qualys is a public company trading on NASDAQ (QLYS).