Test Automation Engineer
About Us:
Tata Digital is a future-ready company that focuses on creating consumer-centric, high-engagement digital products. By creating a holistic presence across various touchpoints, we aim to be the trusted partner of every consumer and delight them by powering a rewarding life. The company's debut offering, Tata Neu is a super-app that provides an integrated rewards experience across various consumer categories like groceries, fashion and electronics, travel and hospitality, health and fitness, entertainment, and financial services on a single platform. Founded in March 2019, Tata Digital Private Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Sons Private Limited.
Our Culture:
We cultivate a culture of innovation, inclusion for all employees and respect their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We thrive on the diversity of our talent in all forms and see it as a strength in building high performance teams across brands. As we rewrite commerce in India, change is the only constant in our day to day lives.
Team Overview:
We manage everything from platform engineering, CI/CD pipelines, QA automation, analytics automation, NFR automation, to regression testing—consistently driving innovation at scale. You’ll be at the heart of scalability, performance, and reliability, ensuring our systems meet the dynamic needs of India’s booming digital commerce landscape.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design & develop robust test strategies, automation frameworks, and methodologies to ensure software quality at scale.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (engineers, product managers, project managers) to shape and execute quality assurance initiatives.
- Drive Release Planning by defining software readiness criteria and ensuring seamless production deployment.
- Enhance Testing Efficiency by spotting bottlenecks, providing technical guidance, and automating key workflows.
- Create & Maintain test cases, scripts, and regression suites across functional, performance, and security testing.
- Perform Root Cause Analysis for complex issues, working closely with engineering for swift resolutions.
- Stay Ahead of Industry Trends, leveraging best practices in QA, test automation, and DevOps-driven testing.
- Define Key Metrics for software quality, tracking test effectiveness and championing continuous improvements.
Basic Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience in Software Development in Test (SDET).
- Proficiency in test automation, scripting, and no-code tool creation.
- Hands-on experience with at least one programming language (Java, Python, C++, etc.).
- Proven track record leading QA efforts in medium to large-scale projects.
- Strong understanding of QA methodologies, testing tools, and automation frameworks.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with Patrol (Flutter-based), Appium, or similar automation frameworks.
- Skilled at defining test plans, quality metrics, and test strategies.
- Knowledge of at least one modern OOP language.
- Experience collaborating with dev teams on test strategies, automation, and CI/CD integration.
- Experience working with external SDET teams to define test expectations and execution plans.