2 months ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end quality strategy for large product domains, cross-functional initiatives, and high-impact releases.
- Design, review, and optimize functional, regression, integration, system, end-to-end, API, and data validation testing approaches.
- Drive the development, scalability, and maintainability of automated test frameworks and reusable test assets.
- Partner with Engineering and Product teams to identify quality risks, clarify requirements, and improve testability.
- Establish quality gates, release-readiness criteria, and risk-based testing strategies.
- Oversee validation of workflows across web, mobile, backend services, APIs, and platform components.
- Analyze defect trends, escape patterns, and test-effectiveness metrics to identify systemic quality issues.
- Support root cause analysis for critical defects and production issues and coordinate corrective and preventive actions.
- Guide test environment strategy, test data management, and automated test integration into delivery pipelines.
- Mentor test engineers on test design, automation patterns, debugging, and quality practices.
- Influence engineering teams to adopt scalable quality engineering standards, tools, and processes.
- Contribute to roadmap planning and estimation by identifying testing scope, dependencies, and quality risks.
- Serve as a trusted advisor and escalation point for complex release and quality decisions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field.
- 7+ years of experience in software testing, quality assurance, or software development, including substantial experience leading complex test initiatives and automation efforts.
- Deep expertise in software development and testing lifecycles and modern quality engineering practices.
- Strong experience designing scalable test strategies across complex systems, integrations, and distributed architectures.
- Advanced experience with automation tools and frameworks such as Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Appium, REST Assured, or similar.
- Proficiency in one or more programming or scripting languages such as Java, Python, JavaScript, or similar.
- Strong experience with API, database, integration, and end-to-end testing.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, build tools, and automated test execution environments.
- Experience with defect tracking, test management, and quality reporting tools such as Jira, TestRail, Azure DevOps, or similar.
- Strong analytical, communication, collaboration, and mentoring skills.
- Ability to influence technical direction and quality practices across teams.
Benefits
- Opportunity to work on complex challenges at scale.
- Opportunity to help shape a global, cloud-native, AI-driven platform.
- Innovative, collaborative, and fast-paced work culture.
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About Tekion
Tekion builds an AI-native, cloud platform for automotive retail that unifies dealers, OEMs, and partners. Its products include Automotive Retail Cloud (a dealership management system for retailers), Automotive Enterprise Cloud for manufacturers, and Automotive Partner Cloud for integrations, delivered as subscription software. Privately held and headquartered in Pleasanton, California, Tekion raised private equity funding in 2024.