Nokia

System QA & Automation Engineer

Nokia Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Telecommunications · 1,001-5,000 employees

4 h ago
qa Senior (5-10 yrs) Full-time India
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About the role

Design, develop, and execute comprehensive test strategies and automated test suites for cloud-native observability solutions. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure product quality, reliability, and operational readiness through continuous testing and defect analysis.

What they look for

System Testing QA Automation Cloud-native Kubernetes OpenShift CI/CD API Testing Observability Microservices Kafka OpenTelemetry PromQL VictoriaMetrics Performance Testing Escaped Defect Analysis Golang

Requirements

Requires an engineering degree and 5+ years of experience in system testing, QA automation, and quality engineering. Strong expertise in Kubernetes, microservices, CI/CD pipelines, and observability technologies is essential.

Full description

We are seeking talented System QA & Automation Engineers with 5+ years of experience and a passion for delivering high-quality, cloud-native software solutions. In this role, you will design, develop, and execute test strategies and automation solutions for end-to-end system validation of cutting-edge applications in the observability domain, leveraging modern testing frameworks, cloud-native technologies, and automation tools. You will collaborate closely with development, product, and operations teams to ensure product quality, reliability, performance, scalability, and operational readiness while driving continuous improvement in system testing, test automation, and quality engineering practices within an agile environment.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and execute comprehensive test strategies, test plans, and automated test suites to validate cloud-native observability solutions for functionality, reliability, scalability, and performance.
  • Develop and maintain end-to-end test automation frameworks and pipelines, integrating automated validation into CI/CD workflows to improve test coverage, efficiency, and release quality.
  • Investigate, reproduce, and validate software defects and customer-reported issues, collaborating with development teams to support root cause analysis, defect prevention, and product quality improvements.
  • Drive system-level validation of distributed systems, microservices, APIs, and Kubernetes-based deployments, ensuring operational readiness across complex deployment environments.

Champion quality engineering best practices through continuous testing, test automation, Escaped

  • Defect Analysis (EDA), and data-driven continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Leverage AI-powered testing tools, intelligent automation techniques, and modern quality engineering practices to improve test effectiveness, productivity, and overall software quality.

Qualifications

You Have:

  • Engineering degree with 5+ years of experience. Experience in System Testing, QA Automation, and Quality Engineering for cloud-native, distributed, or enterprise software products.
  • Strong hands-on experience in designing and implementing test automation frameworks, API testing, end-to-end system validation, regression testing, and CI/CD-integrated test automation.
  • Proven expertise in validating microservices-based applications, distributed systems, REST APIs, and complex multi-component deployments.
  • Strong experience with Kubernetes, OpenShift, Containers, and Helm, including deployment validation, troubleshooting, upgrade testing, and platform-level verification.
  • Experience testing large-scale data ingestion, streaming, and observability platforms involving Kafka, telemetry pipelines, and data-intensive systems.
  • Strong knowledge of observability technologies, including metrics, logs, traces, OpenTelemetry (OTLP), PromQL/VMQL, VictoriaMetrics, and monitoring-driven validation approaches.
  • Hands-on experience with CI/CD, Jenkins, test automation pipelines, performance testing, reliability testing, defect analysis, and quality engineering best practices, including Escaped Defect Analysis (EDA). Strong debugging, root cause analysis, problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Nice to Have:

  • Experience with AI-powered testing tools, intelligent test automation, and AI-assisted quality engineering practices.
  • Experience with observability and AIOps-driven validation approaches for cloud-native platforms.
  • Exposure to telecom network management, network analytics, or autonomous network solutions. Experience working in Agile/Scrum development environments.

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