Senior Software Development Test Engineer

Tekion is hiring a Senior Software Development Test Engineer in Chennai Regional Office.

Requirements

• 6+ years of hands-on experience in QA Engineering, Test Automation, or SDET roles.

• Strong test automation expertise using modern Java-based frameworks; working knowledge of Python test frameworks (pytest) is a strong plus.

• Deep experience testing distributed microservices, REST APIs, and Kafka-based architectures.

• Experience with Testcontainers for integration testing across MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Kafka, and Elasticsearch locally.

• Strong understanding of Kafka testing: consumer behavior, event ordering guarantees, and idempotency validation.

• Experience with MongoDB and PostgreSQL testing patterns: data integrity, schema migration validation, multi-tenant isolation verification.

• Familiarity with Elasticsearch test strategies: index correctness, relevance, and query result validation.

• Experience with CI/CD pipeline integration (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or equivalent).

• Familiarity with containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes).

• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience validating AI/ML model outputs and scoring pipeline correctness.

• Exposure to contract testing (Pact or similar) and service virtualization for hexagonal adapter boundaries.

• Experience with performance, load, and chaos testing (JMeter, Gatling, k6) against Elasticsearch and Kafka.

• Background in DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering practices.

Benefits & perks

• Competitive compensation and generous stock options.

• Medical insurance coverage.

• Work with some of the brightest minds from Silicon Valley's most dominant and successful companies.

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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