Tesco India Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Hybrid Full-Time Permanent Apply by 20-May-2025
About the role
We are looking for a Senior Software/System Engineer to join our engineering team. In this role, you will play a critical part in ensuring the reliability, performance, and scalability of our software solutions. You will be responsible for designing and implementing both manual and automated testing frameworks while collaborating closely with development teams to drive best practices in software quality.
As a senior member of the team, you will act as a QA advocate and partner, supporting developers in writing testable code, improving test coverage, and enhancing CI/CD pipelines. Your expertise will help shape our approach to quality engineering and drive continuous improvement across multiple products and platforms.
What is in it for you
At Tesco, we are committed to providing the best for you.
As a result, our colleagues enjoy a unique, differentiated, market- competitive reward package, based on the current industry practices, for all the work they put into serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day.
Our Tesco Rewards framework consists of pillars - Fixed Pay, Incentives, and Benefits.
Total Rewards offered at Tesco is determined by four principles -simple, fair, competitive, and sustainable.
Salary - Your fixed pay is the guaranteed pay as per your contract of employment.
Leave & Time-off - Colleagues are entitled to 30 days of leave (18 days of Earned Leave, 12 days of Casual/Sick Leave) and 10 national and festival holidays, as per the company’s policy.
Making Retirement Tension-FreeSalary - In addition to Statutory retirement beneets, Tesco enables colleagues to participate in voluntary programmes like NPS and VPF.
Health is Wealth - Tesco promotes programmes that support a culture of health and wellness including insurance for colleagues and their family. Our medical insurance provides coverage for dependents including parents or in-laws.
Mental Wellbeing - We offer mental health support through self-help tools, community groups, ally networks, face-to-face counselling, and more for both colleagues and dependents.
Financial Wellbeing - Through our financial literacy partner, we offer one-to-one financial coaching at discounted rates, as well as salary advances on earned wages upon request.
Save As You Earn (SAYE) - Our SAYE programme allows colleagues to transition from being employees to Tesco shareholders through a structured 3-year savings plan.
Physical Wellbeing - Our green campus promotes physical wellbeing with facilities that include a cricket pitch, football field, badminton and volleyball courts, along with indoor games, encouraging a healthier lifestyle.
You will be responsible for
- Work closely with product managers and developers to understand product requirements and design.
- Document detailed functional and integration test cases, coordinating with developers, product managers, and stakeholders to ensure complete coverage.
- Develop and implement a test automation strategy that enhances efficiency, scalability, and reliability.
- Execute manual and exploratory testing where required, ensuring comprehensive validation of features.
- Ensure automated solutions are cost-effective and contribute to business goals, providing ROI analysis where necessary.
- Collaborate with development teams to integrate quality gates into CI/CD pipelines and improve overall test coverage.
- Advocate for shift-left testing strategies, embedding quality early in the development lifecycle.
- Establish and refine best practices in test automation, performance testing, and non-functional testing.
- Analyze server logs, databases, and system metrics to provide insights into test results and defect analysis.
- Develop mock/stub components to test the functionality of isolated software components.
- Track quality metrics, such as defect densities and open defect counts, and publish test reports.
- Support test infrastructure improvements, integrating tools such as ReportPortal, Pact.io and Mock Server.
- Provide mentoring and guidance to less experienced colleagues, fostering a culture of quality engineering excellence.
- Collaborate with stakeholders, including product managers and engineering leads, to ensure testing strategies align with business needs.
- Lead multiple projects/initiatives, taking ownership of test planning, design, execution, and automation.
You will need
- 10+ years of experience in Quality Engineering, including hands-on automation and manual testing.
- Strong expertise in test automation frameworks (e.g., Playwright, Selenium, RestAssured, Karate, Gatling, Cucumber BDD, TestNG).
- Proficiency in programming languages such as Java, Python, or JavaScript.
- Experience in API testing, microservices testing, and web application testing.
- Knowledge of SQL, NoSQL, and pub-sub technologies.
- Hands-on experience integrating testing tools, including ReportPortal, Device Farms, Pact.io, or Mock Servers.
About us
Tesco in Bengaluru is a multi-disciplinary team serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day across markets. Our goal is to create a sustainable competitive advantage for Tesco by standardising processes, delivering cost savings, enabling agility through technological solutions, and empowering our colleagues to do even more for our customers. With cross-functional expertise, a wide network of teams, and strong governance, we reduce complexity, thereby offering high-quality services for our customers.
Tesco in Bengaluru, established in 2004 to enable standardisation and build centralised capabilities and competencies, makes the experience better for our millions of customers worldwide and simpler for over 3,30,000 colleagues
Tesco Technology
Today, our Technology team consists of over 5,000 experts spread across the UK, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and India. In India, our Technology division includes teams dedicated to Engineering, Product, Programme, Service Desk and Operations, Systems Engineering, Security & Capability, Data Science, and other roles.
At Tesco, our retail platform comprises a wide array of capabilities, value propositions, and products, essential for crafting exceptional retail experiences for our customers and colleagues across all channels and markets. This platform encompasses all aspects of our operations – from identifying and authenticating customers, managing products, pricing, promoting, enabling customers to discover products, facilitating payment, and ensuring delivery. By developing a comprehensive Retail Platform, we ensure that as customer touchpoints and devices evolve, we can consistently deliver seamless experiences. This adaptability allows us to respond flexibly without the need to overhaul our technology, thanks to the creation of capabilities we have built.