Staff Software Development Test Engineer

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

Requirements

• 8+ years of QA Engineering, Test Automation, or SDET experience with strong hands-on engineering depth.

• Deep expertise designing test strategies for hexagonal architecture: proven ability to test domain cores independently from adapters, and adapters independently from each other.

• Strong programming skills in Java (primary) and Python — able to write production-quality test frameworks, not just test scripts.

• Expert-level Testcontainers experience across MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Elasticsearch, and Redis/Aerospike.

• Experience with contract testing (Pact or similar) for service boundary validation and service virtualization.

• Deep Kafka testing expertise: consumer group behavior, event ordering guarantees, idempotency, and dead-letter queue validation.

• Experience designing golden dataset strategies: multi-tenant data seeding, realistic event sequences, and deterministic assertion design.

• Experience integrating quality gates into CI/CD pipelines with meaningful blocking thresholds.

• Strong understanding of AI/ML output validation: scoring correctness, RAG retrieval quality metrics, and agentic workflow eval design.

Preferred qualifications

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

• Background in AI/ML quality engineering: eval frameworks (RAGAS or similar), model regression detection, and LLM safety testing.

• Prior experience owning quality for a platform serving multiple engineering teams (quality platform ownership).

• Familiarity with Cosmos DB testing patterns and eventual consistency validation strategies.

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