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Principal Software Development Engineer in Test

United States, Santa Clara 147000.00 - 237500.00 USD / Year · Job Posted March 04, 2026
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Join our Cloud Management Platform group as a Senior Hands-on Development Engineer in test and bring a relentless AI-First mindset to our team. Your core responsibility will be to design, develop, and integrate resilient test automation frameworks. You will drive the efficiency and reliability of our products by testing them thoroughly to understand potential risks, bugs, or issues, providing an exemplary product experience for our end users. We require a deep technical expert with a proven track record and an ambitious vision for leveraging Artificial Intelligence to revolutionize our processes. You will spearhead the transformation of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), driving innovation in automation, code generation, and establishing breakthrough quality assurance standards.

Job Responsibility

  • Work in a small ,fast paced team to solve important customer problems and deliver most impactful results
  • Be involved in a rigorous approach to testing for specifications, assist the team with testing methods or tools for testing
  • Suggest and implement improvements to the QA process
  • Work with cross functional development and quality assurances groups to achieve the best quality
  • Work with DevOps and the Technical Support teams to troubleshoot customer issues
  • Interview, mentor and coach new team members

Requirements

  • Proven experience in designing and implementing test automation methodologies, tools, and frameworks
  • Expert level experience with REST API driven Automation using Python
  • Hands-on experience with UI automation frameworks (Selenium, Cypress, Playwright etc)
  • Practical experience using AI-based tools to accelerate coding, test generation, debugging, and refactoring
  • A demonstrated passion for researching and applying innovative, AI-based testing methodologies to improve engineering productivity
  • Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab CI, Jenkins) and version control systems (Git)
  • Experience with cloud technologies (AWS,GCP) and containerized applications (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Experience with TCP/IP Networking and Network Security is highly desirable
  • Knowledge of Active Directories, Cloud Identity providers is highly desirable
  • BS or MS in Computer Engineering or a related technical field
  • Minimum of 10+ years’ experience

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