Principal Eng, Test(Automation)
Baxter International1 day ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own the enterprise automation architecture and roadmap for C#-based REST API, UI, integration, and workflow testing.
- Design modular, reusable automation frameworks supporting configuration, service clients, page or component objects, test data, parallel execution, retries, logging, reporting, and environment management.
- Define coding standards, branching and review practices, framework governance, versioning, documentation, and contribution models.
- Establish pipeline strategies for pull-request validation, smoke testing, regression, release qualification, and automated quality gates.
- Guide teams on testability, coverage modeling, risk-based test selection, and reduction of flaky or low-value tests.
- Lead technical reviews, proofs of concept, framework migrations, tool evaluations, and resolution of complex cross-service failures.
- Define dashboards and metrics for coverage, reliability, execution time, defect containment, failure causes, and productivity gains.
- Partner with architecture, software, DevOps, cybersecurity, systems, and verification leaders to embed quality throughout delivery.
- Mentor automation engineers and build engineering capability through reusable assets, coaching, and technical communities of practice.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Engineering or Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science, Electronics and Communication, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- 12+ years of experience in automation architecture and engineering.
- Advanced C# and .NET engineering skills, including software design principles, dependency injection, concurrency, asynchronous execution, and extensible architecture.
- Demonstrated experience architecting and developing REST API and UI automation frameworks at scale.
- Strong knowledge of Playwright, Selenium WebDriver, NUnit, xUnit, MSTest, or comparable technologies.
- Expertise in API contracts, distributed systems, microservices, event-driven integrations, databases, authentication, authorization, and service virtualization.
- Deep experience with Git, CI/CD architecture, parallel execution, containerized test environments, automated reporting, and quality gates.
- Experience improving framework reliability, diagnosing flaky tests, optimizing execution, and driving adoption across multiple teams.
- Strong technical leadership, stakeholder communication, mentoring, and architecture decision-making skills.
- Preferred experience with Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, message brokers, observability platforms, and cloud-native test environments.
- Preferred experience validating healthcare platforms, HL7/FHIR integrations, connected devices, or regulated software products.
- Preferred knowledge of security, accessibility, performance, reliability, and resilience testing within a unified automation strategy.
- Relevant Microsoft, cloud, architecture, or testing certification is advantageous.
- Preferred knowledge of SIP infrastructure and media components including Kamailio, FreeSWITCH, RTPEngine, SBCs, registrars, RTP, and WebRTC.
- Preferred experience with Azure Key Vault, Azure App Configuration, Azure Cache for Redis, Azure Web PubSub, Terraform, KEDA, and container security tooling.
- Familiarity with IEC 62304, ISO 13485, risk management, cybersecurity expectations, and quality systems for regulated healthcare software.
- Experience with Jira, Jama, validated toolchains, Agile/Scrum delivery, formal release-readiness reviews, and leading teams of automation testers.
About Baxter International
For nearly a century, we have delivered on our commitment to saving and sustaining the lives of patients, working alongside clinicians and providers around the world. We believe every person — regardless of who they are or where they are from — deserves a chance to live a healthy life, free from illness and full of possibility. At the intersection of progress and purpose is where we are redefining what it means to be a global medtech leader. It is where we are relentlessly pursuing healthcare transformation, fueled by our compassion for patients and providers and the challenges they face. It is where bold ideas meet the promise for meaningful change in the world around us. We are there, at every step of the journey, to help clinicians deliver the best care possible.