Senior Software Development Engineer in Test

Fivetran is hiring a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test in Bengaluru.

From Fivetran’s founding until now, our mission has remained the same: to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity. With Fivetran, customer data arrives in their warehouses, canonical and ready to query, with no engineering or maintenance required. We’re proud that more organizations continue to leverage our technology every day to become truly data-driven.

Responsibilities

• Review requirements, specifications and technical design documents to provide meaningful, risk-focused feedback.

• Design and evolve scalable automation frameworks in Java with a strong emphasis on reliability, performance, and data correctness.

• Write high-signal test strategies for complex features and automate them across multiple environments.

• Improve CI/CD pipelines by building robust validation layers that prevent silent failures and regressions.

• Build internal tools and proof-of-concepts using AI/LLM technologies to:

• Accelerate debugging and failure triaging

• Generate high-quality test scenarios

• Detect flaky patterns or regression risks

• Improve log analysis and root-cause identification

• Enhance developer and QA productivity

• Design AI-assisted workflows that integrate seamlessly into the existing automation and release pipelines.

• Experiment with and implement agent-based systems or LLM-powered tooling that streamline development and testing processes.

• Actively measure and improve engineering impact through reliability metrics, automation efficiency, and defect prevention signals.

• Collaborate with engineering teams to drive a culture of quality ownership and automation-first thinking.

Skills

• Java11, JUnit5,

• Docker and Kubernetes

• AWS, GCP

• Terraform, WireMock, RestAssured

• Bazel, BuildKite

• 5+ years of experience in the software industry with strong passion for quality, automation, and engineering excellence.

• Deep understanding of OOP principles and strong proficiency in Java.

• Expertise in designing scalable automation frameworks and identifying negative, edge, and high-risk scenarios.

• Strong understanding of distributed systems risks such as schema drift, idempotency failures, data inconsistencies, and race conditions.

• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes).

• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with tools such as Jenkins, CircleCI, Buildkite.

• Experience working with backend automation frameworks.

• Knowledge of database testing and ETL/data pipeline validation is a strong plus.

AI & Productivity Engineering

• Demonstrated ability to leverage AI/LLM tools to significantly accelerate development, debugging, test design or automation activities.

• Experience building AI-assisted tools, workflows, or agents that integrate into engineering pipelines.

Benefits & perks

• 100% employer-paid medical insurance*

• Generous paid time-off policy (PTO), plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave policy, holidays, and volunteer days off

• RSU stock grants*

• Professional development and training opportunities

• Company virtual happy hours, free food, and fun team-building activities

• Monthly cell phone stipend

• Access to an innovative mental health support platform that offers personalized care and resources in areas such as: therapy, coaching, and self-guided mindfulness exercises for all covered employees and their covered dependents.

*May vary by country and worker type - please reach out to your recruiter for more information

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We’re honored to be valued at over $5.6 billion, but more importantly, we’re proud of our core values of Get Stuck In, Do the Right Thing, and One Team, One Dream. Read about us in Forbes.

Fivetran brings together high-quality talent across the globe to make data access as easy and reliable as electricity for our customers. We value and recognize that our customers benefit from having innovative teams made of people from many backgrounds, experiences, and identities. Fivetran promotes diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging through attracting, recruiting, developing, and retaining a diverse workforce, not only because it is the right thing to do, but because it helps us build a world-class company to better serve our customers, our people and our communities.

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About Fivetran

Fivetran and dbt Labs are bringing together two industry-leading companies with a shared mission: helping organizations unlock the full value of their data. Together, we’re delivering the data infrastructure layer that helps organizations move, transform, and trust their data — from the moment data moves, through every transformation, to the context teams and AI systems rely on. Fivetran helps organizations automate data movement across the systems, clouds, engines, and tools they rely on. dbt L