Principal Software QA Engineer
Halliburton · Bangalore South, Karnataka, India
Oil and Gas · 10,001+ employees
About the role
The Principal Software QA Engineer ensures the accuracy and reliability of E&P data, applications, and workflows through rigorous testing. They are responsible for developing automated scripts, managing containerized environments, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to maintain quality standards.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must possess strong technical expertise in E&P data types and hands-on experience with Landmark applications and cloud platforms. Proficiency in scripting languages, container management, and CI/CD pipelines is essential for this role.
Full description
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Job Duties
The Senior Software QA Engineer is responsible for ensuring the accuracy, reliability, and quality of E&P data, applications, and workflows. The role focuses on working with subsurface and drilling domains, cloud based deployments, automation, and containerized environments. This position requires strong domain knowledge and hands on technical capability, with the ability to work independently and collaborate across multidisciplinary teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Perform QA for Landmark applications, ensuring data integrity and workflow consistency
- Validate subsurface, drilling, and production datasets for completeness, accuracy, and compliance
- Develop and maintain automated QA scripts using scripts and other automation tools.
- Support cloud based E&P application deployments on AWS and Azure
- Build, test and validate Docker images and container configurations
- Deploy and troubleshoot Kubernetes workloads for E&P applications
- Participate in CI/CD processes, automated testing, documentation updates and release validation
- Conduct root cause analysis for data or application quality issues
- Collaborate with subsurface, drilling, IT and DevOps teams to ensure digital workflows meet quality standards
- Document QA processes, test cases, and validation results
- Ensure compliance with API, ISO and internal quality standards
- Provide technical QA insights during system upgrades, migrations, and new tool deployments
- Ability to use AI tools to bring efficiency to the testing
Required Technical Competencies
- Strong hands on experience with OpenWorks, Petrel and Landmark EDT applications.
- Deep understanding of E&P data types: seismic, well logs, drilling data, production data
- Proficiency in Linux and Windows scripting (Bash, PowerShell, Python)
- Experience with AWS and Azure cloud services (compute, storage, IAM, networking)
- Strong working knowledge of Docker and container lifecycle management
- Experience deploying and troubleshooting Kubernetes clusters
- Familiarity with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing frameworks
- Understanding of data governance, lineage, and quality rules for subsurface and drilling datasets
Minimum Qualifications: Minimum qualifications may be acquired through technical schools or equivalent related experience. Candidates having qualifications that exceed the minimum job requirements will receive consideration for higher level roles given (1) their experience, (2) additional job requirements, and/or (3) business needs. Depending on education, experience, and skill level, a variety of job opportunities might be available from the Technical Professional Software prin - advisor
Halliburton is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, citizenship, marital status, sex/gender, sexual preference/ orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, national origin, or any other status protected by law or regulation.
Location
4th Floor, Gardenia 2D, Bengaluru, Karnataka, 560103, India
Job Details
Requisition Number: 210411 Experience Level: Experienced Hire Job Family: Engineering/Science/Technology Product Service Line: Landmark Software & Services Full Time / Part Time: Full Time
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Compensation Information Compensation is competitive and commensurate with experience.
