Senior Software Test Engineer

Professional Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Test Engineer to join our team in Mountain View, CA. In this role, you will be responsible for comprehensive testing across functional, non-functional, security, and chaos/resilience domains. You will design and execute test strategies for microservices and API-driven applications deployed in cloud-native environments (Docker & Kubernetes), ensuring system reliability, performance, and security.

Key Responsibilities

• Functional & Integration Testing: Design, develop, and execute functional, integration, system, regression, and end-to-end test cases. Perform API and microservices testing to validate service-to-service interactions.
• Test Automation & CI/CD: Develop and maintain automated test scripts and frameworks; integrate test automation into CI/CD pipelines.
• Non-Functional Testing: Conduct performance, load, stress, scalability, reliability, availability, and capacity testing.
• Security Testing: Execute security test scenarios covering authentication, authorization, API security, vulnerability assessments, and common application security risks.
• Chaos & Resilience Engineering: Perform chaos and fault-injection testing (e.g., pod failures, network latency, CPU/memory exhaustion, dependency failures) to validate system tolerance under adverse conditions.
• Infrastructure & Environment Validation: Test containerized applications running on Docker and Kubernetes environments.
• Observability & Defect Root Cause Analysis: Utilize monitoring and observability tools to analyze test results, track performance, identify root causes, and collaborate with developers to resolve defects.
• Quality Assurance & Collaboration: Participate in design and code reviews, produce detailed test/defect reports, and partner with DevOps, SRE, Security, and Product teams to ensure production readiness.

Technical Requirements (Must-Have)

• Strong expertise in API & Microservices Testing and service-to-service validation.
• Hands-on experience with Test Automation Frameworks and CI/CD integration.
• Solid experience in Non-Functional Testing (Performance, Load, Stress, Scalability).
• Experience with Security Testing (Authentication, Authorization, API Security, Vulnerability Testing).
• Direct experience with Chaos & Resilience Testing and fault injection (pod failures, network latency, node restarts).
• Hands-on experience testing applications deployed in Docker and Kubernetes environments.
• Proficiency in using Monitoring & Observability tools for system performance and resource utilization analysis.

Desired Skills (Nice-to-Have)

• Familiarity with SRE principles and fault-tolerance architecture.
• Experience working in cross-functional teams alongside DevOps, SRE, and Security specialists.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package (where applicable).