Senior Software Engineer, Test Automation - Hyderabad, India

Astronomer empowers data teams to bring mission-critical software, analytics, and AI to life and is the company behind Astro, the industry-leading unified DataOps platform powered by Apache Airflow®. Astro accelerates building reliable data products that unlock insights, unleash AI value, and powers data-driven applications. Trusted by more than 700 of the world's leading enterprises, Astronomer lets businesses do more with their data. To learn more, visit www.astronomer.io.

Your background may be unconventional; as long as you have the essential qualifications, we encourage you to apply. While having "bonus" qualifications makes for a strong candidate, Astronomer values diverse experiences. Many of us at Astronomer haven't followed traditional career paths, and we welcome it if yours hasn't either.

About this role

At Astronomer, our R&D team is dedicated to providing an exceptional experience in managing Apache Airflow at scale. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Test Automation to lead the test automation efforts for our self-hosted platform, Astronomer Software.

This role is essential to ensure the quality, reliability, and scalability of our product through comprehensive integration, E2E, smoke, regression, and performance testing. You will collaborate with engineering, DevOps, and product teams to build a highly automated and scalable test framework.

The work location for this role is in Hyderabad.

What you get to do:

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test suites for integration, end-to-end (E2E), smoke, and regression testing.

• Define and implement strategies for scalability and load testing of a Kubernetes-based distributed system.

• Perform manual testing on frontend (UI) and backend (API, database) to validate functionality, usability, and performance.

• Collaborate with development teams to understand architecture and features to define appropriate test coverage.

• Develop and maintain test plans, test cases, and test scripts aligned with business and technical requirements.

• Build reusable test components and utilities for frontend and backend systems.

• Automate deployments and test execution in CI/CD pipelines using GitOps and Kubernetes tooling.

• Monitor test executions, analyze results, and drive continuous improvement in test quality and coverage.

• Flexible to work in collaboration with US (Pacific Time) and IST hours as needed.

What you bring to the role:

• 8+ years of experience in test automation for modern distributed systems.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills to work with cross-functional teams across time zones.

• Proficiency in writing automation for microservices built in Node.js, Python, and Go.

• Strong experience with Kubernetes, including hands-on experience testing systems running on K8s.

• Expertise in E2E/UI test frameworks such as Cypress, Playwright, or Selenium.
  Experience with API testing tools (e.g., Postman, REST-assured, Supertest).

• Experience with load and performance testing tools such as k6, Locust, or JMeter.

• Deep understanding of CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or ArgoCD.

• Familiarity with observability tools: Prometheus, Elasticsearch, Grafana, Fluent Bit.

• Strong scripting or development background in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Golang.

• Solid understanding of GitOps, Docker, and Helm charts.
  

Bonus points if you have:

• Experience testing on service mesh environments (e.g., Istio, Gloo).

• Familiarity with chaos engineering tools like Litmus or Chaos Mesh.

• Experience in secure testing and compliance validation for enterprise deployments.

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At Astronomer, we value diversity. We are an equal opportunity employer: we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.  Astronomer is a remote-first company.