Staff Software Development Test Engineer
- Level
- Staff
- Work type
- On-site · Bengaluru
Not stated in the posting: salary, visa.
Open. First seen 2 October 2026.
About the role
About Tekion:
Positively disrupting an industry that has not seen any innovation in over 50 years, Tekion has challenged the paradigm with the first and fastest cloud-native automotive platform that includes the revolutionary Automotive Retail Cloud (ARC) for retailers, Automotive Enterprise Cloud (AEC) for manufacturers and other large automotive enterprises and Automotive Partner Cloud (APC) for technology and industry partners. Tekion connects the entire spectrum of the automotive retail ecosystem through one seamless platform. The transformative platform uses cutting-edge technology, big data, machine learning, and AI to seamlessly bring together OEMs, retailers/dealers and consumers.
Tekion's standard text
With its highly configurable integration and greater customer engagement capabilities, Tekion is enabling the best automotive retail experiences ever. Tekion employs close to 3,000 people across North America, Asia and Europe.
Summary: The Staff Software Development Test Engineer is a senior technical leader responsible for ensuring the quality, reliability, and scalability of Tekion's software products and platform capabilities. This role combines deep software engineering expertise with strong testing and automation skills to design, build, and evolve robust quality solutions across front-end and back-end systems.
The ideal candidate brings extensive experience in software development, test automation, system design, and quality engineering practices. This individual will drive technical excellence by developing scalable automation frameworks, leading quality initiatives, influencing engineering standards, and partnering with Product, Engineering, and cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software solutions.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, and implementation of scalable quality engineering solutions across critical product and platform areas.
- Develop and maintain automated test frameworks and solutions for front-end, back-end, API, and integration testing.
- Conduct comprehensive manual and automated testing for UI, APIs, databases, and distributed software systems.
- Design and execute test strategies, test plans, test cases, and detailed test reports for complex applications.
- Build and maintain automation suites using tools such as Selenium, Playwright, and similar testing frameworks.
- Perform API testing using tools such as Postman to validate integrations, workflows, and data consistency.
- Write and maintain high-quality code for automation frameworks, testing utilities, and engineering tools.
- Translate business and product requirements into effective testing strategies that improve reliability, performance, and user experience.
- Lead quality initiatives across engineering teams and influence best practices related to testing, automation, observability, and operational excellence.
- Identify system risks, performance issues, defects, and technical debt, and drive improvement initiatives.
- Collaborate with developers, product managers, architects, and engineering leaders to define quality goals and technical priorities.
- Perform root cause analysis for complex production issues and drive preventive solutions.
- Mentor engineers and QA professionals through technical guidance, automation best practices, code reviews, and problem-solving support.
- Contribute to architecture discussions and long-term platform evolution by ensuring quality, scalability, and maintainabilityPromote a culture of ownership, engineering excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field; advanced degree preferred.
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, quality engineering, or test automation roles.
- Strong experience testing complex web applications across front-end and back-end systems.
- Deep understanding of software design, data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems concepts.
- Strong programming skills in Core Java and experience with JavaScript/TypeScript or similar languages.
- Hands-on experience building and maintaining automation frameworks using Selenium, Playwright, or equivalent tools.
- Experience with API testing tools such as Postman and validation of service integrations.
- Strong SQL skills with the ability to write queries for backend validation and data verification.
- Experience with UI testing, API testing, database testing, and end-to-end test automation.
- Strong understanding of Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), defect management, and quality processes.
- Experience using tools such as JIRA or similar test and issue management platforms.
- Knowledge of performance testing, reliability engineering, observability, and secure software development practices.
- Experience working in Agile development environments and leading cross-functional engineering initiatives.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers, influence technical direction, and drive quality improvements without direct authority.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.
Tekion's standard text
Current Tekion Employees: Please apply via the Internal Job Board in Ashby
Note: Tekion recently transitioned to a new recruiting tool and we appreciate your patience and feedback as we adjust to our new system!
Tekion is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, victim of violence or having a family member who is a victim of violence, the intersectionality of two or more protected categories, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
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What this role asks for
Particular to this role
JavaScript · Jira · Playwright · Postman · Selenium · TypeScript
Rare in Tekion's other 75 open postings.
Standard for QA / testing roles
Test Automation
Common in QA / testing postings at any company.
In most of Tekion's ads
Machine Learning
Named in most of its open postings, whatever the role.
79% of this description is written for the role. The rest is Tekion's standard text, folded away below.
Read against Tekion's other open postings on this site.
The team: Data and AI HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 15 open in Data and AI. 3 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in March: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Machine Learning (15 of 15), AWS (9 of 15), CI/CD (9 of 15), Java (8 of 15), Python (8 of 15), LLM (7 of 15), Test Automation (7 of 15)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Senior Software Engineer - Data Engineer posted Oct 14
- Senior Manager, Applied Science posted Oct 6
- Manager, Engineering posted Sep 29
- Staff Software Engineer - Backend posted Sep 11
- Staff Software Development Test Engineer posted Jul 17
- Senior Software Development Test Engineer - Applied Science posted Jul 17
- Staff Software Development Test Engineer - AI Evaluation posted Jul 9
- Senior Software Development Test Engineer - AI posted Jul 9
- Staff Software Engineer - AI Engineer posted Jul 9
- Staff Software Development Test Engineer posted Jul 9
- Software Development Test Engineer - II posted Jul 7
- Software Development Test Engineer II posted Jun 29
- Architect, Software Engineering - Frontend - Integration posted Mar 10
- Architect, Software Engineering - Integration posted Mar 10
From the team and dates on Tekion's own job board.
Other openings for this role
4 postings for this role in Bangalore HQ since 2 October 2026, 3 still open. None has been taken down and posted again.
- 2 October 2026 – open (this posting)
- 2 October 2026 – open
- 2 October 2026 – closed 8 October 2026
- 2 October 2026 – open
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